{{Cash}} What a rotten thing to happen. Much recovery~ma, strength~ma and anything else the family needs coming at ya.

Hec, your schedule makes me feel old. I have no idea how people do all that stuff with kids, anymore. I mean, I did it with my daughter all the time and when my son would come to visit, with both of them. It didn't seem that hard at the time. Now, I want a nap just thinking about it. It's the only aspect of being a grandma I'm starting to dread. At least, with grandkids, you can set limits on the length of the visit. But, still.

IOmemeN, I'm doing laundry and avoiding packing. I have too many clothes. Why didn't someone tell me to quit shopping! Four hours until I have to be at my dad's house for a ride to the airport. Wheee! And, oops, I still have to go to the store. No knee high nylons for under dress pants.

{{{Cass}}}

taking whatever the medication is that makes you sick with alcohol

Antabuse

He's probably supposed to do 30 meetings in 30 days, but the odds would be better if he'd stayed in rehab longer. I hope he makes it, for his family's sake.

Today I have to take my first test GRE, finish up some reading for my computer class, and write a response to the reading.

Tomorrow I have to go to my GRE class.

I already miss my weekends.

Edited to {{{Cass}}}

Oh Cass!

(((Cass and family)))

JZ is a huge fan of Skeee-Lo's rap cover of "The Tale Of Mr. Morton." "Whassup, cat?"

Oh, I love that one! I went ahead and bought the album pretty much for that song (though now that I have it, I'm also really loving the Lemonheads' "My Hero, Zero"). I'm still wondering where the heck I heard Skee-Lo's "Mr. Morton" before that I liked it so much, though. I'd actually bought the Arrested Development CD partly because I got "Mr. Morton" mixed up with "Mr. Wendell". Although I also really like "Tennessee".

Getting really frelling tired of this rutting keyboard lag!

{{{{Cashmere}}}}

Yep, I got to give Emmett birthday hugs! It was cool. The game, I'm not discussing. Grrrrr. But Emmett is quite the cutie. Hec was dashing, as always.

Hec, K-Bug was sad to have missed you two. She was off wandering the stadium with her boyfriend. She remembers you as "the guy that bought her outrageously expensive chocolate".

Cash, please stop by sometime and update us on his condition. God, I'm so sorry. How horrible.

{{Cass}}}

He's probably supposed to do 30 meetings in 30 days, but the odds would be better if he'd stayed in rehab longer.

True. But a lot of drinkers are like a lot of smokers, it takes more than a few tries for quitting to stick. I had a cousin who had 3 DUIs and got sued by a step-brother for a car accident before he finally got his shit together and got sober. He's been sober for over 5 years, now. But it took a lot to get him to quit. The biggest thing was the family finally got together and told him, you're on your own, we are not bailing you out of this, not paying for the lawyer, etc. Tough love does work.

{{{Cass}}}

Susan, or others: I have a job to illustrate 6 characters, 5 men and 1 woman, from 1849. A couple of the men are British Navy. Any idea for websites that would provide visual references for clothes and hairstyles?

Hmm, Raq, that's a bit out of my era. If it was 1812 I'd be all over it, but most of my favorite costume sites really are that specialized. I'll poke around and see what I can find.