Kitten pictures

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and sending some extra strenght your way maria

and ice cream your way barb.

I killed you ded with those pictures didn't I

and BTW, I think Kato is just trying to fly in that second picture

Yup. I am typing from my own wake, it's true.

My roommate and I just talked for, like, three hours solid. More. Man, I really got lucky. I hope she finds a job and sticks around past December.

Good wishes aren't a finite resource, and no one's keeping score.

Can we get this carved in a really pretty marble, maybe, or a nice pink granite, and have it mounted as a lintel over the door? A touchstone going out or coming in. Just as a reminder of its truth.

Maria, what they all said.

Barb, I'm sorry it didn't work out.

smonster, I'm having so much fun reading your adventures in your new home.

And I apologize for being thin on the ground lately. Couldn't be helped, but I'll try to be more vocal. Or, postal--no wait.

Fucking hell. The conference starts today, and I just woke up with unbelieveable pain in my hip. I must have rolled over on it badly during the night or something. I can barely walk across the hotel room, let alone getting to all the talks I want to go to.

I checked my schedule, and the first thing that I really want to go to is at 1 -- there were some talks in the morning that looked interesting, but I don't have to see them. I took half a Vicodin, and I'll try seeing if I can get this worked out by lunch time. The hotel has a whirlpool, and that might help, but I'm not sure if I can bend enough to get into a bathing suit.

Hil, does the conference have affordances for people who need help getting places?

I don't know. What I really need today is a walker, but I don't have one. I do have crutches and a cane in my car, and the crutches will probably help some. The combination of Vicodin and a hot bath have helped a bit. I've also got my TENS unit with me, and I'll try that for a little while, and then I'll see if I can get into a bathing suit to go to the whirlpool.

Attaching TENS pads to my back is tricky, but I managed it. This is helping a lot.

Good wishes, like love, are an infinitely renewable resource. I don't always come in and post ~ma for people, but I'm wishing it.

I'm extra-aware of how I appear to be coming off here, because I haven't been as active over the past few years

Once a Buffista, always a Buffista. We're kinda like Hotel California, only not as creepy, and with less stellar guitar work. So much ~ma to you and your DH, and his mom.

Hil, I hope your pain is manageable today and you get to everything that is important to you. Also, was that amazing bookstore in Columbus the Book Loft, in German Village?