Good to hear, Maria.

Man, what a day of downpour and hail and lightning and thunder. Am on ferry headed back across river, here's hoping the traffic is cleared out by the time we get there.

I see a lot of breakfast for dinner and even takeout while we're working over here. Loooog days, and especially this week I need to be packing, not cooking, in the two or so hours between getting home and bed.

I tried acupuncture for my headaches, and like Glam, dunno if it helped those, but it was definitely relaxing as all get out.

Oh, and a tornado warning. Forgot about that. I can't rule out rain of toads, it was getting all kinds of biblical out there.

Good news! Spoke to current landlady and she's just accepted a job, so she won't be back here next week, so I've got some leeway on getting out of the house and getting it cleaned. Such a relief. Shit is coming down to the wire, but it looks like it's all going to work out. Plus she's getting rid of most of her furniture, so I may score there as well.

And there went my 15 minute timer on eating dinner. Now to do dishes, shower, prep tomorrow, and see if I can pack a box or too before collapsing.

Totally skipping and I'm very very sorry for that (550+ posts behind. I'm getting to the present, slowly but surely), but it's about the Nillybaby (x-posted with Natter):

I think I'll visit Nilly in the hospital tomorrow. If you have anything you'd like me to print for her, feel free to send it to my email (I'm not sure about the wi-fi there). Profile addy is good.

That's all for now.

Such wonderful news to hear this morning!

I know, right? I mean, this is a cruel and sometimes senseless and harsh and WTF? and messed up and I-really-have-no-time-to-for-anything-these-days world we're in. And yet, people like Nilly are reproducing. That's a giant beam of light and hope, right there.

Shir speaks absolute truth.

Many blessings on the house of Nilly!

Happy Birthday, Nilly-Baby!

And yet, people like Nilly are reproducing.

I was reminded the other day of a extraordinarily brilliant friend of mine. He was in his 80s when my first son was born and when he visited me in the hospital it was the very first baby he had ever held. We used to go to lunch often. He reminded me of my dad, super engineer, was head of the national engineers society or whatever for years.

When I first told Gordon that I was pregnant he looked at me like I was stark raving mad. He argued with me that I surely had more important things to accomplish with my life, etc, etc. He was dead serious. He had been married forever, but they didn't have children because his contributions to the world were much more important. Of course my argument was that it didn't make a whole lot of evolutionary sense to only let the dumb reproduce.

Anyway, I feel better about the world when people like Nilly reproduce because I know the world is a better place with her children in it.

YAY Nilly Baby! Thank you for the update, Shir!