You can do it, Nora. You totally can. Take a little break. Get some food in you. Then attack it again.

Sparky, that's so sad.

vw, I hope things go easier for you very soon.

Laura, is there any use to covering your cheek with gauze? I guess not because you'd need something sticky to stick the gauze to your cheek with, huh?

Continued good writing~ma to you, Nora. I would love to be able to go back to school again but I don NOT miss term papers. Nuh uh.

Hope Owen and Mal feel better soon.

T!C, I don't know what time dad's surgery was scheduled for. Only that it was scheduled for this morning. I wouldn't worry about it at all but there's always that sliver of possibility that someone doesn't wake up from anesthesia or some freak mistake. Small percentage but I always acknowledge it by resigning myself to worry just a bit.

I was up 'til 3am last night and despite not having taken a nap yesterday, I wasn't massively productive. I think I've managed to transcribe lyrics to all the songs I'm performing and the act of writing them has helped me towards memorizing them but I really should have accomplished more yesterday. Because I didn't do as much, I'm going to have to spend hours doing my telecommute job as soon as I've bathed and broken my fast.

My condolences to your husband and his friends, Sparky. I hope you both have a good time at Yosemite.

I'm bored and I ate some horrible crackers that tasted like ass so I am also unhappy. So very bored and unhappy.

Maybe some gum will help (the terrible taste in my mouth, not the boredom).

If you put pop rocks in your gum, it might help with the boredom, too. Or try popping an Airborne tablet in your mouth. I did that absent-mindedly once. Woke me right up.

Yikes Spidra. That would wake you up. and fizz your brains!

T!C, I don't know what time dad's surgery was scheduled for. Only that it was scheduled for this morning. I wouldn't worry about it at all but there's always that sliver of possibility that someone doesn't wake up from anesthesia or some freak mistake. Small percentage but I always acknowledge it by resigning myself to worry just a bit.

I fully subscribe to the worry-it-away school of waiting, so I understand. I hope everything goes okay for him, and that you get to know that, really soon.

::shudders at the thought of a raw Airborne::

It looks like we might get snow while in Yosemite. So much for the "we'll take our bicycles!" plan.

Or try popping an Airborne tablet in your mouth.

I did this once. Before I realized they weren't chewables.

ION, I have a new v. short haircut, and if I can motivate myself to upload pictures, all y'all can see it.

Get motivated.

Did you do anything different with your hair, Sparky? (not that you aren't perfectly pretty already)