Well, more good news for the family Booth.

Aunt B, who's mother is the reason I'm in Florida, met with the big shot surgeon she traveled to see today and he's going to operate to remove the tumor. This is phenominally good news because a month ago it was pronounced inoperable.

It's pretty heavy surgery and pretty dangerous, but as of now her death sentence is on hold. We're all pretty amazingly relieved even though there is still ways to go.

In sad news, Cousin C succumed to his cancer. He was a professor and there will be a memorial service for him once the school year starts again. Hopefully I will be home for it.

Oh, Sean, FYI, my old job has an opening in sound.

I know. I am not available for the next month or so. For most of the last year, whenever SCR has had work, it has always been when I've already had a gig booked. Or am about to leave the country. Or something like that.

My condolences to you and yours, Trudy. But I'm glad to hear of the good change about the tumor. I hope that that news continues to be good and she recovers swiftly.

Ah, Trudy. Some good and some bad. It can be exhausting.

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Man, it's a good thing I can't throttle someone via Facebook wall. I mean, when you counter the cultural center with this?

I just found out that in order to purchase a shotgun, I AM REQUIRED to buy a cable lock as well and wait 10 days. And I can't even purchase an assault rifle. Why doesn't your side fight for my rights? Where's my justice? Where's my freedom?

BOO HOO HOO LET ME DRY MY TEARS WITH MY PLASTIC HAND.

...aww, crap, I can hear Sam Jackson reciting Ezekiel in my head again.

MOMMY, WHY CAN'T I HAVE AN ASSAULT RIFLE? ALL THE OTHER TERRORISTS HAVE ASSAULT RIFLES! YOU'RE THE WORST MOMMY EVER!

Trudy, damn. Glad to hear the good news about your aunt, and so sorry about your cousin.

Cat is lively and apparently not in distress, so I'm gonna watch and wait.

Since when can't you buy an assault rifle? Is he complaining he can't buy a fully automatic one?

The deer must be really badass where he lives.

Since when can't you buy an assault rifle? Is he complaining he can't buy a fully automatic one?

Sure, you can buy an "assault rifle", but not a real assault rifle, as you can't get one with a huge magazine that lets you kill whole bunches of people at once.

I mean, you gotta have standards, right?

Dude, I don't freaking know. He also tried to pull that whole "let's build a gay bar next to the mosque, har har" and this queer shut him the fuck down. I refuse to let people who don't give a shit about gay rights use the suffering of homosexual Muslims as some bullshit political football and source of easy (homophobic, btw) jokes. And now he's trying to insinuate some kind of pro-muslim conspiracy b/c a Russian Orthodox church's deal fell through with the Port Authority. @@ 4evah.

But he has the right to defend himself against his government, right? Why, why, don't those pesky liberals support my right to have an AK-47 for the day sure to come when the Islamofascist Obama communist state comes breaking down my door?