{{{Anne}}} and to your mother too.

{{{Anne}}} Tons of ~ma to all of you.

{{{Trudy}}} Health~ma to your mother.

:: smacks forehead... lets head hit desk... repeatedly ::

I work with idiots.

So we (finally) have wi-fi routers for guest artists. But the higher ups don't want actors to access the wi-fi. So they set up a wired router in the green room. Both routers are linked only to the internet, and not to the internal networks and ticket networks. So I ask, what's the difference? Why not just give the actors a password to the wi-fi so they can stay in their dressing rooms, easy to find? The answer: "The difference is that one is wireless and one is hard wired into the wall"

:: head -> desk ::

A different article said it wasn't a fake bomb, just some arty electronic thing she made.

Just some arty electronic thing she made and then wore to the airport.

Oh, Anne. The world needs to give your mom a freaking break already.

Just some arty electronic thing she made and then wore to the airport.

Yeah.

Well, in her defense, the electronic thing was inside the jacket and she wore the jacket all the time and she just grabbed it without thinking and headed off to the airport early in the morning.

So, not the brightest thing to do, but it seems like many people could have such a lapse.

{{{Anne & mother}}}

bonny, you've already gotten lots of good advice, but I'll add my $0.02 FWIW: I push myself really hard to achieve my writing goals and beat myself up when I don't meet them. But I've gotten better after hearing an author talk about his belief that there's no such thing as writer's block--that not writing because you don't feeeellll like it or aren't feeling creative just then is just like a nurse calling into the hospital and saying she can't come in today because she has nurse's block. While the advice was directed against people who call themselves writers but don't commit to putting words on the page except on rare occasions when all the stars are in the right alignment and the muse pours deathless prose into their fingertips, I realized that it cut the other way, too. Nurses can't call in with nurse's block, but they have vacation and sick leave and bereavement leave, and a professor of nursing can take a sabbatical. So, if I miss my goals because I'm lazy or because I put on dramatic, artistic airs, I've failed myself, and I'm not acting like the professional writer I aspire to be. But if I have to change my goals because I or someone close to me is sick or because I realize a project isn't going well and needs to be abandoned or re-started from scratch, that's not a failure at all. It's simply adapting your goals to the unpredictability of life.

why/how did Pat Benatar - Invincible get earwormed into my wacky brain? Tell me. how? And I can't put iPod on while teching in show. MAKE IT STOP.

(in other news, with said song in head, having lovely images of cuties from that movie "Legend of Billie Jean"... so eh, not all bad, I suppose).

Anne, hope everything is easy as possible for your mom.

Oh, Anne. Peace and strength to you and to your mom.