I definitely should have stayed home. But my line was running! Well, "running." I was at the station for about an hour, and maybe three trains came by in that time (that were too full to get on). I finally got on one, and eventually made it in here. Usually it takes me under an hour to get to work. Today? About two hours and ten minutes. AWESOME.

Jesse, when the government tells you to stay home from work...stay home! Also, what train were you on?

Yikes, people. Catching up was a scary reading experience, apart from the return of the poster formerly known as Cybervixen. Please stay safe and as pain free as you can be during this time of micro and macro apocolypti. Loved it that LAistas were able to be there for ita.

67°F 88% humidity. Still not bad compared to home.

So go Barry Bonds! I don't follow baseball at all except my son and Buffista kids little league. But I feel bad for Bonds reaching this awesome milestone and having every single mention of it in the press accompanied by disclaimers about his steroid use. Don't know if he is a prince or an asshole, but I feel bad that his victory is so tainted.

eta: Oh, I skipped the CV visit! Must threadsuck...

Oh, and look what make the Space pic of the day.. [link]

Oy. Just had a neuro visit, who managed to contradict almost everyone I've seen in the past couple days.

Yes, I get it, don't be an addict. But please stop talking about "as much pain as [I] can tolerate." I consider tolerating pain about equivalent to not dying. I don't want to tolerate it. But I can.

At least I have cherries on my pjs.

Did Lori do any work on the Phoenix lander?

It's her big ass robotic arm, I believe.

There's going to be a point when I just say "Look, it still hurts, but the little bit of a life that I was having? I need to get it back."

I'm sorry your life is trying to become why my Hubby's life is like. I hope you get better relief.

But look, Laura, the poster formerly known as CV is back! Two days in a row. I can't stick around, but I wanted to check in on ita. So so sad that her news isn't better. So happy Kat brought her jammies!

Fred Pete - I don't know all the backstory on your kitty, but just wanted to chime in and say that I can relate AND things really could get better. About 6 or 7 months ago, I took my cat to the vet because she was losing weight pretty dramatically. What ensued is an extremely long story, but basically, after a couple of thousand dollars worth of tests, they came up with the hypothesis that she had lymphoma of the stomach lining. To confirm that diagnosis, we'd have had to sepend a couple thousand more for additional tests, but since they said they would treat her for that condition even if we didn't, we skipped the test and just started treatments. Treatments involved oral steroids and subcutaneus fluids every other day. I learned to administer the fluids at home (it was so awful I don't even want to talk about it). This went on for months and months, tweaking the steroid dosages and the frequency of fluids. And all of a sudden, she started getting better. She still has to have blood work done every 6 weeks to check her calcium levels (basically, her kidneys were calcifying before), but for the time being, she has gained back all the weight (she had gotten down to 6 and a half pounds, she's back to just over 8 now), and she is off all of her meds. Treating a sick kitty is very difficult, all of the vets she visited said the same thing - sometimes it is just near impossible with a cat, it has a lot to do with luck and love. I hope your kitty gets better soon!

It's too bad we're all axe-murdering pedophiles, or this'd be a real nice story.

HA HA! (Sharpens her axe, crosses Liese of "the list")

I just spent 10 minutes entertaining Dylan by turning a lamp on and off. He was fascinated.

That is insanely cute.

It's pouring rain here in Maine, too. Yucky out there.

Ok, must work now. Hugs and happy thoughts to ita, I hope that when I next check in you are doing much better.