Super-quick update ( Read more... )

Okay. I'll type this up properly tomorrow, but it's too vividly wonderful not to share. At least the synopsis, okay? So ( Read more... )

I promised Vallory that we'd watch the gymnastics together, but yesterday it was fencing instead. Three hours of fencing, on the NBC site, and intermittently we ended up watching the whole thing ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, temperatures topped 106', and our air-conditioning broke ( Read more... )

Things are beginning to clear up here. Visitors are sent home (I now know more about The Young and the Restless than anyone rightly should); my girl's had a chance to spend whole mornings and evenings with her great-grandmother, which makes me happy beyond belief. They shared her room, see? And since great-grammy can't fall asleep at night without ( Read more... )

We've had a guest over for a few days and she'll be here a while longer yet. Consequently I have No Time At All, and a head full of soap opera trivia. Eldest nephew has busted his knee so badly that three days later he still can't quite walk on it; why they don't take him to the hospital for MRI or something I don't know. We hope the shakes he ( Read more... )

In the car, now. We've got the laptop with us, and the moment we hit a good wi-fi spot I'll hit Send, and that'll be that. All she wrote. Fat lady singing. That.

littlegoth's gone. Saw that just before we headed out; the_seraph to follow shortly, I guess. I'd drink a beer to you guys and your last stand at the end of the world, but .. Well, I guess you can ( Read more... )

It's still quiet here. Now that an idea of what's going on is starting to come in, that kind of makes sense. Hot Springs is a big place, see? But there's only 40,000 people living here - at the height of tourist season, which it almost is ( Read more... )

You remember I said a few weeks ago that I had a story about men with guns on our lawns? I never did get around to telling it, and now it's a bit too late for that, I guess, because they're back again ( Read more... )

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