Had to use that title this week (thank you, KAL!). I'd gotten fed up with an iPhone problem, where tracks weren't copying over correctly from Itunes. You could fix it by unsyncing the music, then resyncing it and forcing it to recopy some fourteen thousand tracks over, but I finally said, OK, maybe time for …
In the room where it happens
My college buddy Carol, a flutist and audiologist who lives in San Francisco, came in last week to celebrate her birthday and see a lot of theater. She stayed with me for the first half of the week. so we had a lot of chances to go out and do stuff. She arrived on Saturday …
Augean Stables
I wanted to start the New Year by concentrating on redoing my estate, as well as (of course) paying attention to my health, losing weight, all those things. I did well on the weight thing for a while, then, with no obvious cause, threw all that over and am now eating and drinking the way …
Make Me More Human
This is a post that would probably benefit from an outline and several drafts, which it's not gonna get. Oh well. I've come to realize over the last few years that I'm repressed enough that it's easier for me to access the deep emotions through art. I can't just feel something (deeply), I have to watch a …
Attack of the Squirrels
Last week was pretty mild. It was the anniversary of my mother's passing (four years now), observed merely with reflection. I finished a Christmas stocking I'd been working on since October. (I also got the Xmas stuff down out of the way of the cleaning lady on Wednesday, then got it down to the basement later, so that's …
Ham and Jam and Spamalot
This weekend, which has totally been given over to household reorganization, has been heavenly. I'm still deXmassing - the tree is down now, but I have to get all those ornaments back in their little boxes. That's OK, as I said to Susan, I have until November, when it all comes back out again. I've also continued with …
29 years
So, two weeks into the New Year. I've been doing pretty well, mostly quiet. I decided to cut way down on my drinking - no automatic glass of wine every night now, and I'm finishing my evenings with herbal tea instead of bourbon. Actually, I'm pretty much having just one cocktail for particular meals on the weekends, and …
2023 Wrapup
So... yeah. Not really gonna cover world events or anything like that. 2023 was the First Year Without Charles, of course, first one of those since I was 30. Life is quite different from 1994 - you can definitely do a Major Epoch of my life that would just be Before Charles, Charles, and After Charles. And I'm …
Oh, yeah, December
I really have been busy busy, also somewhat laid low by allergies the last two weeks (TMI. You're welcome), but I do need to catch up here, and then write an end-of-year wrapup which I can point to in my New Year's cards, because of course I never got around to sending out Xmas cards. …
Work the List
Let's see, where was I? Thanksgiving Christmas Prep Mikado audition Yucky thumb and now also Holiday Party LOONY concert Various Christmas movies and I doubt if I'll get all this caught up in this post. So... Thanksgiving. Our tradition for many years had been to go visit my parents and Charles would cook Thanksgiving dinner …
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