This is a request for totally self-serving ~ma.
I just damaged my best friend's Range Rover in the garage of her office building. She is unbelievably generous in lending to me for errands and has been generous in lots of other ways.
I'm just sick.
It isn't the worst damage imaginable...tail light covering broken and a fairly significant gouge in the side panel, including a dime sized hole. However, blinking at this car costs huge dollars that I don't have.
I'm waiting for her to come back from a lunch meeting right before she takes her dogs to the vet and leaves for vacation. Her husband, who can't stand disorder, is coming into town tomorrow.
Please, any good thoughts for her not hating me and for the cost to be something less than $1,000 would be greatly appreciated.
My newest blog post at Little but Fierce is up: PEEP SHOW! It's not what you think.
It's better.
(This may also clarify why I know I have found my One True School.)
So we launched ND's business website finally this weekend: Diablo Sound. In order to slowly move it up google's search list, we would love it if anyone who feels comfortable could post a link to it from your blog, website, etc. No worries if you can't or don't feel it would be appropriate.
It's still a work in progress, and I'm a very newbie webdesigner using Dreamweaver, so please be kind. Thanks!
Kier-La Janisse of Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas made a documentary movie based on my book (with Kim) Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth.
It's screening in San Francisco this Thursday night (4/30 @8pm).
edit:
It's on this Thursday. Not Friday.
I'll be present to do a Q&A afterwords.
Please come! There will be beer and The Banana Splits. Lots of clips of classic Bubblegum in all it's bizarre glory.
My dad had very serious back surgery today and it got a little touch and go. A little ~ma, prayer or thoughts his way as he recovers would be appreciated.
Chicagoistas! Anyone available to meet up for a drink or some food with me and smonster tomorrow?
What time and where? I can probably get out of here a bit early to beat rush hour.
Ok, more details. Please join me and Wallybee in welcoming Ryan Daniel Higgins into the world. (Chinese name is 方有仁, for those with Chinese characters, or Fāng Yŏu Rén, for those without.) He is adorable, very patient, and has a powerful suck, which makes him well qualified for the position of baby within this organisation. Mother and baby range from doing very well to being simply awesome.
He was born after 1:00 am on April 30, so for most of you it hasn't happened yet. Wallybee first experienced mild contractions just after midnight on April 28. They began in earnest around 11:00 pm that night, and we checked into hospital at 5:00 am on April 29, two hours before the deadline the doctors had set for starting induction.
By around midnight, Wallybee was showing some warning signs of possible distress (and was certainly exhausted), and Ryan was delivered by Caesarean section roughly 49 hours after he'd started indicating that his living arrangements were getting too cramped, and could we either deliver him or put in a theatre room. He was 50 cm long and 3.78 kg in weight at birth. They're now both resting comfortably. I'll be heading over there shortly to introduce him to his grandparents. ("Wŏ xiăng jièshào nĭde sūnzi." I've been practising.)
He still has a soft and squishy head, because his mother is a biped, in accordance with the laws of the State of Victoria. In the final analysis, though, I think the important thing is that it was the birth of a mammal, and I was there.
