From the new community PolyPeople: Who Was Wonder Woman 1?
Ouch
You know the muscle spasms are bad when the cat gets mad and refuses to sit in your lap anymore because they’re bugging her. Current Mood: 🤒sick
Growl!
I try, I really do, to watch for signs of prejudice in myself. I don’t think I’m a particularly prejudiced person. I absolutely cannot stand incompetence, though. And avoidable communication problems are a real hot button for me. Why does…
Poem: The Journey
Thanks to hopeevey for the pointer to this poem. The Journey by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole…
Poetry: My Mother Gives Me Her Recipe
My mother gives me her recipe by Marge Piercy Take some flour. Oh, I don’t know, like two-three cups, and you cut in the butter. Now some women they make it with shortening, but I say butter, even though that…
Still to Do This Weekend
Still to come (this weekend, I hope): Hang up a speaker shelf in the living room. Get a phone connected in the living room. I wish we had another of the phone/intercom handsets we found at Sam’s Club a few…
PCs and Parts
We need to rebuild three computers for clients this weekend. Then we will see if we can make one or two working PCs from the parts that are still around. Sam wants a Linux “sandbox” to play on, and I’d…
Cat Concern
We need to bathe Shelley today, and we’re hoping it’ll help her skin (it has in the past). She has gone beyond making small sores all over herself from nervous biting/picking—we realized this morning that she has removed all the…
Need Help from Other Buffy Fans
wordcandlemage recently loaned me his season 7 Buffy tapes, and I’ve watched up through episode 7, “Conversations With Dead People.” Somehow, the next episode, “Sleeper,” isn’t on the tapes. This is a major problem. I hate watching/reading any series out…
What We’ve Done Today
So far today, the office has been cleaned a LOT (thanks largely to sambear). It feels better in every way. The mail station has been set up, the CD-ROMs have been transferred to their new home in a set of…