The Admiral has been taken to the vet, where he will likely be remaining until I return to the US this weekend. His very attentive and caring catsitters noticed his appetite was dropping off and that he was not using the litterbox much. The vet initially found that he was dehydrated; this renews the concerns about kidney disease or diabetes.

An offhand conversation about a life of travel piqued my interest in how much I've really travelled ( Read more... )

I am happy to have acquired several authentic Nixon presidential campaign buttons from assorted campaigns.

I've been busy amending and correcting my 2010 address labels.

Nothing close to the 2009 travel schedule is in the works, but I'd still like to get postcards out on the short trips in the near future.

Increasingly, I realize the key to getting what you want from people is to act as though it is not just inevitable, but in fact has already happened.

I am both pleased and terrified by this conclusion.

Conversation, nice enough.

Dreams, distracting and dissolving.

It could be right, it could be wrong. Think about it twice.

The high road, in this sort of weather, becomes at best muddy gravel awash with puddles.

I walk it as well as I can. I try, anyway,

An introspective mood takes hold. Everyone, I believe, is someone different to all the people in their life. If only different by role and perception.

I think about who I am for the people in my life more than is usually appreciated. Because I care.

One of the goals I accomplished in 2009 was finishing memorizing the first section of T.S. Elliott's "The Waste Land". Since this is really only meaningfully demonstrable in person, you'll just have to take my word for it ( Read more... )

Secrets by their very nature make each one rare, hence scarce, and hence valuable.

Mystery is a currency that can really only be spent once, truly. Prolonged mysteries grow at best dull and at worst blatantly manipulative.

At best, pulling back the curtain can be seen in an honest light. I don't really believe that happens, but it is the upper