The most important promises you’ll ever make in this life are the ones you make to yourself. I’ve lost sight of that fact, and broken at least one of my promises to myself. I need to remind myself of a few of my promises to myself (these aren’t all of them, by any means). I won’t […]
How do you feel when you return home at the end of the day?
The NaBloPoMo prompt for today: How do you feel when you return home at the end of the day? I’m not sure I should have answered this one, as I doubt that my answer will be in sync with the intent of the question. I don’t leave home every day to go to work, or leave home […]
Fall Cleaning
It has to be fall cleaning because it’s September, right? I haven’t done spring cleaning at any time since we’ve lived in this house, honestly. I haven’t been able to do it. But between a new pain specialist who isn’t all the way on the other side of metro Atlanta (who actually listens to me […]
General Update
It has been some time since I posted much here, so I figure that I should do a bit of an update. It isn’t as if anything has changed in any big way. Sam has the same nice and stable job, and we’re still very happily together after—oh, wow, it’s twelve years this month. Katie is […]
It Is the Flu
And now I have it, too. Damn it. I had tried to get back to blogging daily, but good intentions just didn’t hold a candle against the entire household coming down with the flu. For some reason, I thought Tamiflu was a one or two-pill affair, but I suppose I had it confused with one of […]
What’s Private for You?
Web 2.0 is all about sharing and collaboration. There have been lots of stories lately that have shown something of a backlash against that sharing, pointing out how oversharing makes us easy targets for criminals, talking about cyberstalking, etc. That’s not where I’m going. I’ve found myself thinking recently about what people don’t share, about what, […]
Female Heart Attacks Are Different: A Nurse’s Heart Attack Experience
The following was posted to a mailing list I’m on. Of course, it was surrounded with the usual “send it to everybody you know!” admonitions. I don’t do that, and I usually delete anything so marked. But I did find the information useful, so (after editing a bit, I admit), I am reposting it. I […]
Maybe It Isn’t the Flu
Katie seems to be feeling a bit better. She slept through most of the day, and just got up a few minutes ago (right at the end of my and Sam’s date) feeling like she could eat something. Solid food, even! That’s progress. Since she didn’t have any antivirals, I don’t think this was really […]
The Flu? But That’s Why We Had Shots!
My girl has the flu! And she had not one, but two flu shots this year! She caught it from her sweetie down at Georgia Tech, and if there’s a place in Georgia that’s more international than the airport, that’s it. So I suppose it’s one of those strains that she wasn’t vaccinated against. But still! […]
I’m Feeling Better!
(I think I’ve already used “Not Dead Yet” as a title, and I really don’t like to be too repetitive.) I haven’t been posting much, and it isn’t really because I haven’t had anything at all to say. In fact, I’ve repeatedly started to write posts. In fact, I’ve finished writing some posts—but each time, […]