Unfortunately, I’ve had a rather busy week, so I’m running late on my chapter. I’m hoping to have it — a revision of Chapter Four — done for tomorrow. This week has included an expensive trip to the emergency vet for a very sick Jazz (she seems to be doing better), some long hours at [...]

     f this weekend is anything to go by, today is going to suck like a Hoover on crack. I’ve been sick with sinus-y crap all week, dragging ass and feeling rotten, and all weekend long, it’s been groups, groups, and more groups. I expect today to be more of the same. It’s a holiday weekend, [...]

     t has been well over a year since MrJames moved to Oregon. When MrJames lived with us, about every two or three months or so, he would whip up a batch of delicious salmon soup. I know, I know, many of you right now are going, “Eeew! Fish? In Soup?” but trust me, this stuff [...]

     o, I’ve had an interesting morning, and I mean “interesting” in the sense of the old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
     I’m driving home last night, and I abruptly notice that the van is pulling hard to the right. Huh. That seems a bad sign, I think to myself. Sure enough, moments after [...]

woke up yesterday morning, threw on some jeans and a shirt and my ball cap, lassoed Jazz with the leash. I led her outside, listening to the automatically-locking door behind me close. At the exact same time the door clunked shut with impenetrable finality, I realized I hadn’t grabbed my keys. I turned to [...]

     omic Pioneer George Carlin Dies at 71:
     George Carlin, an extraordinary standup comedian whose dark social satire won him multigenerational popularity and a starring role in the most famous broadcast obscenity case of modern times, died Sunday of heart failure in Los Angeles. He was 71.
     The Manhattan-born comedian, who always said his often-cynical satire simply reflected [...]

     oday, we had a woman in the restaurant who was extremely special. She was an older lady, obviously trying to dress to impress, in a business sense, not a dating sense. She had a very nice skirt outfit on, shades of blue and sea green in a flower pattern, but it had that “I got [...]

      am finally drawing near to the end of the tedious divorce process. And just imagine, I’m getting the easiest kind of divorce possible, and it’s still been a tedious pain in my ass. Seriously, they need to do something to condense this process.
     Off to your right, you’ll see the last of MrJames’ Carnival posters, [...]

     rJames has blessed us with some Carnival art, made at Despair.com. Since I’ve been busily writing and rendered otherwise brain dead by a sucky little spring cold, I figured I’d share MrJames’ pictures instead of a making real post. And, they’re worth sharing. I was particularly pleased with the Bloody Mary and Violent Clay [...]

     ednesday, I got up at the gawdawful early hour of 6:30 am to join VC and Missa in delivering the Squatch to MrJames for a week-long visit. We drove him down to Detroit to the airport and dropped him off to his plane. We skipped taking I-75 due to the odious levels of construction and [...]