Believe me, I'd love to join in on the Hulk Smashage. What he's going through is one of the most extreme cases of "person at the top ruins underlings' lives through rampant procrastination of something that's been scheduled for years" I've ever witnessed.

Well my invisible friends...I'm off to watch the A's last home game. A meaningless match with the Angels, but the last baseball game of the year.

Have fun, lexine! My buddy just offered me a ticket to the last Blue Jays game of the year, Sunday against the MIGHTY KANSAS CITY ROYALS on Fan Appreciation Day (snerk). Of course I'm going!

Who doesn't want to come home to *that*?

On the days I miss that, I just turn the tv up louder.

I'm teasing, Susan. He seems like a fine spouse. Just feeling a little extra single today.

I figured you were, erika--I just wanted to make sure it was clear I was teasing with the backing slowly away part!

Yeah. Figured.

I slept in an extra hour this morning and I feel so much better. And it dramatically helped the dark circles of doom under my eyes too.

Aww, spouse stuff. Sorry that work is such of the suck, dw. Venting is a good thing.

Emily, I've been thinking of you. What you are going through right now is just so hard and draining from my experience. I hope the world starts smiling a little more on you.

My dad just called with the news that my friend A.'s husband died this morning. My uncle works for a funeral home, and I had given A. his name when she was looking into it a few months ago -- her husband had cancer and had relapsed badly late last year.

So unbelievable -- I think he was just forty, and they have a six-year-old son. He found out about the cancer when A. was pregnant with their little guy, so their son never knew his dad as other than ill in one way or another.

How very sad. All kinds of healing to your friend and the kidlet.

{{{Amy}}}

I hate cancer.

Thanks, guys. It seems so unreal, even though he's been sick for so long. And the thought of her raising that little guy alone, and then having to go back to work full-time... Cancer really does suck. Hard.