I hope Grace gets better quickly.

I'll be heading back to glorious Kernersville tonight. There were a couple who lived hear my dad and helped him out a lot after Mom died. Yesterday one of them passed away, so I'm going to the visitation this evening. It'll be the first time back in Kernersville since I wrapped up Dad's stuff.

Coping~ma for Calli and Kat.

I am avoiding any creationism peanut-butter-banana videos. Can't deal.

They are delicious and will magically make your skin soft, smooth and pretty.

Eating them, or smearing them on? contemplating pineapple bath

Thanks, Zenkitty.

A friend of mine has a recipe where you soak pineapple spears in rum, roll them in sugar, and then carmelize their rum-sugar coating over a fire. (We're totally doing that over my firepit when the weather cools down enough.) And now you're telling me it's good for my skin, too? Score!

I'm sorry, Calli. Good luck.

Here's hoping it's nothing serious for Grace.

And thank god -- I was in a slight panic at the end of the day yesterday, refused to check my email from home in case no one had gotten back to me, and came in this morning to everything I needed! WOOOT.

I take it as a good sign that 90% of what I've heard about the RNC convention last night involved Clint and jokes about invisible Presidents, which may say a lot about the impact of Romney's dramatic acceptance speech. Or, possibly the OTT of Clint's speech.

I hope Kat & Grace got home from the ER?

That pineapple sounds very yummy, Calli. I hope the trip is as stress free as possible.

I hope the Dems learned from the planning lessons of the RNC convention. So many missteps. They had some really good stuff in the hours before national coverage. And then Clint in prime time.

Good Friday! Blue moon rising tonight and a long weekend to follow.

I watched the whole RNC. My take-away is: (1) Clint is an adorable old fart, who made some good points that got overshadowed by the silliness of pretending to talk to Invisible Obama. (2) All of Paul Ryan's pants are on fire. (3) The only thing Romney truly believes in and will stand up for is the right of rich people -specifically, him- to acquire more money. All else is negotiable. (4) I suspect there's some Republican party Illuminati setting this whole thing up for reasons of their own. I think they have plans in place regardless of which one wins. Romney will be a perfect placeholder for them, and Obama can be cockblocked for another four years as easily as he was the last four. (5) Lots of people are totally, uncritically, unreasonably behind Romney/Ryan, and this is disturbing. Even if one doesn't want Obama to win, and there are legitimate gripes that people have with him, even so, Romney/Ryan is just bad, because they are manipulative liars. (6) We're boned.

Also, seeing Rachel Maddow completely speechless after Clint's speech was totally worth sitting through it. Finally she said, "That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen at a political convention in my entire life, and it will be the weirdest thing if I live to be 100." All the other msnbc guys sitting there with her, no one else could come up with a thing to say either. One guy tried, "Well, it started out okay..." and trailed off. Priceless.

Maybe I shouldn't talk politics. I'll delete it if asked.

We are still here. I have now been up for 24 hours in which I have eaten one meal. Grace is getting two types of antibios at different intervals and we will have to wait for a bed upstairs indefinitely. I was told if I took her AMA, insurance would not cover the visit. True or bullying?