Daniel, I'm so sorry.

Glad for the Gud (good) news!

I totally heart Sofia. Small pink can, sweet ass sparkling wine - what's not to love?

Skippity skipping like mad to bring you these thoughts on viewing a stranger's summer vacation slide show:

I was flipping through the channels on tv this evening after everything quieted down at work, when I landed on a show that surprised me. It took me ten minutes of utter fascination to realize that I was watching some guy on a local access station with a slide show from his summer vacation. Mind you, it was this guy: [link] Eric Simonson, professional mountaineering guide. And the summer in question was 1999 [link] when he led an expedition up Everest. The truly intriguing bit is that Simonson's goal was not the summit, but to look for traces of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who were last seen nearing the summit in 1924, and may have beaten Hillary to the top by 29 years.

ETA: Yay, darling Buffista toddlers. Yay, Gud's gooder-marriage news. Yay, Plei's job news. Job~ma to them that still need it.

Daniel, I'm so sorry.

Daniel, sorry to hear about the news. Very strange the time delay and all.

JZ, OMG! I'm sitting in an empty theater, dark at that, and I burst out laughing on the homeless guy thing. Sorry. But it was funny.

3) Apparently, the full year subscription for the regular Xbox is actually quite hard to get ahold of these days. Microsoft is making it harder to join Live with an old box because they just love annoying their current customer base who hasn't yet invested several hundred bucks in the latest hardware. They are asshats. I'd start looking around for one of the subscriptions now. No, I don't think the 360 subscriptions are useable.

Hmm, any ideas where to look? as I've never ventured this land before, suggestions would be welcome.

O ya, Pete, DIED with your taunt for MiracleMan! A double whammy! Hope we can get a nice live-fest happening. Should be fun.

Time to drive home. Hopefully tomorrow tech will be slow enough that I can catch up on all the posts. WHOLLY COW! A ton of them these past few days! (I skimmed to catch up in Bitches, my fav!)

Gud, I'm so pleased to hear that things are going better. I was you in your neck of the woods last week, but way too crazy busy to get together with you and Erin. Maybe next time...

The Hec and JZ show is pretty damn funny. And poor JZ, but what a nice, sweet homeless man!

Mom and I are quilting like crazy over here. Must. Get. This. Quilt. DONE!

Timelies!

Obviously the homeless man has impeccable taste. He saw a beautiful woman with a cart and the beauty so befuddled him that he didn't think that perhaps the beautiful woman wasn't going his way. (I laughed too.)

Daniel, I'm sorry for your loss. Vibes for your mom.

Gud, lovely news. I'm glad things are going well.

Beautiful children! I also need pictures of Plei.

There was more, but I mislaid the notes in my head and they're all jumbled up with work stuff. I will likely attach a picture of beautiful sleeves to the next marketing proposal I send out.

((((Daniel and familiy))))

Raq, I don't know about a 50th, but I've always had luck with jewelry as gifts for women, even in the days when my budget meant a very inexpensive stick pin. But it's really a question of the personality of the women in question -- if she doesn't wear jewelry, that doesn't help.

{{Daniel and Mom}} I'm here with the WTF, too. Peace~ma to your mom.

Raq, I love the thought of a spa package. One of my favorite presents from my daughter was for a half body massage at her salon. Just that left me all relaxed and feeling pampered.

I made sure my 50th birthday was perfect for me. Took off by myself and went to the W&H thing in LA where I stayed with lovely Lee, then off for a couple wonderful days camping and climbing at Joshua Tree with Lori. It was 5 days of no responsibility. I don't know when I have been so relaxed.

Time off for working mothers is a wonderful gift. It doesn't have to be a fancy spa or cruise either. For Brendon's 40th I did the big surprise party thing which he loved, and was totally surprised. People we hadn't seen in years.

quilt vw quilt!

Oh SA. Save this love for a show that's worthy of it.

One word: RYLOR.

And don't you know my heart is full of love for many a-striped show? This one broke, and re-broke, my heart until I left it in disgust for greener, Winchester-brother filled pastures; and then, like the evil heartrending bitch J. Schwartzman really is, there was Ryan, cagefighting. And lo, was I brought back, curious, but with extremely low expectations. As if knowing my inner soul, J. Schwartzman gave unto me RYAN/TAYLOR, which thus filled me with a squee heretofore unknown to woman. It was like a heterosexual slashgasm. I know it sounds disturbing. But that's how it felt. And thus I fell in love all over again, and hope my show is not doomed.

And then I pimped.

And all was well.