This is not okay. I just started coughing for no apparent reason. Well, there was a reason, initially I was laughing. But then I was coughing. And I’m getting that weird tickly chest feeling. Please, I don’t have time to…
Gratitude
hopeevey is a good influence 🙂 I’m thankful for… sambear, who is so wonderful and marvelous and sexy and caring and… (sigh) I’ve got it bad, and it’s so good! shadowkatt, who is a wonderful blessing. curiousmay9, wordcandlemage, and other…
Magazines, Vision, Bushes & Politics
Last night I was leafing through Real Simple magazine, waiting for Sam to come to bed. I notice ads in this magazine—why? Probably because there are so damned many of them. And some are the stinky kind, which can be…
Health Issues
Arrrgh! Mom just called to let me know that “the family has been called in” around Daddy’s dying brother-in-law. No surprise to me, since the man has lung cancer and his condition has been deteriorating badly for several months. They…
Blood Test for Pain
I’m really looking forward to seeing how well this test works for those of us with chronic pain: Blood test tells how much it hurts
Medicaid Application
Oh—I had to go apply for Medicaid today. I know that I don’t qualify, but I have to have a letter saying so for one of the drug companies’ patient assistance programs. So after class today, I went to the…
School Miscellany
Well, the rest of my transfer credit finally showed up, so I am now 1 semester hour away from being a junior. Barring some sort of catastrophe, I’ll definitely have that by the end of this semester (I’m taking 12…
Puzzle Nuisance
I did my smaller puzzle before bed last night. It’s missing a piece! WAAAHHHH! I didn’t misplace it and the cat was sleeping in another room. It’s truly Not There. There was a little slip of paper in the box…
Geekery, School, and Migraine
The Samba server lives! And it serves both printers, and I made a PDF server so that anyone on our LAN can create PDFs. Legally, even. For free. Now I wanna set up a fax server—not that we need to…
Patches and the Migraine
Patches bit Sam last night (sigh). He was trying to put her leash on her for a walk – part of the “get dog to attach to Sam instead of Cynthia” campaign. Apparently she felt threatened and she bit him.…