Glad you aired the issues, Julie.

I have to share excerpts from the note my aunt asked my cousin put up on Uncle Frank's FB page:

" He was transported by ambulance from St. Anthonys in Denver as we wanted him to die at home. He died 3 hours after we arrived to the sound of his classical music, plus he heard the sound of his very fun Ducati motorcycle as son Joe rode it to door of our back room and gunned the engine before he took off with his grief of the impending death to clear his head. I am dealing with things through the support of the neighbors(the boys left Friday and a sister is coming next week[my mom]), but it is damn hard, mostly because it was so sudden. It was just a week from the onset to his death; the plus side is, he avoided any long drawn out diagnostic routines and treatment [..] I know most of you did not know him very well, but trust me; he was one very complex individual both intellectually and emotionally; there were a few challenges and a lot of rewards in our 48 year together (married 46 of those; our wedding anniversary was Tuesday). Now I have the privilege of enjoying the very close relation ship I have with our two sons who are much like Frank, each in different ways. Eric will be a professor at the U. of Wisconsin starting in August and Joe will continue his successful Martial Arts business and continue to be a top notch father to their 3 little boys. We visited Joe and his family just a week before Frank got sick. Frank also managed to take a 400 mile MC ride the day before we left for California[,] on his beloved Ducati. He came home with the characteristic grin that he usually had upon returning from his MC rides, whether they were cross country jaunts or short Colorado rides. We are planning a memorial MC ride and Mt. Climbing jaunt toward the end of August."

I'm so glad that a) they'd just seen Joe and the new grandbaby and b) he'd just had a good long ride.

(Did you two get married in Cincy?)

We did! Right downtown, at The Phoenix. Stayed at the Hilton.

I'm so glad that a) they'd just seen Joe and the new grandbaby and b) he'd just had a good long ride.

Those are very good things.

(Did you two get married in Cincy?)

We did! Right downtown, at The Phoenix.

Oooh, the Phoenix. I bet that was lovely!

It was very nice. I will have to explore more of Cincy next time I am there.

I don't get it. ED has no prob taking the Ed director or the Hort Director aside and spanking them explicitly without the rest of the staff knowing. But the Development Director, when she fucks up (repeatedly) he makes a general announcement to caution All of the staff about the bad behaviour without calling out the DD specifically. And the DD's already terrible about general announcements of appropriate behaviour, as exemplified about the use of the exit gate as an entrance, which she totally ignored, because she's such a good driver (um, the polite request wasn't "Please, you bad drivers amongst our staff, don't enter through the exit gate". Also, when she was first hired her car was in the shop because she drove into a ditch in an empty parking lot while changing the radio station).

LeN, I clipped that article to Evernote and it asked me if I wanted to put it into the Medical Reference folder, and I know that's because of all the "sucks to be black and/or female" articles I have in there...

Me and Nunya had an intensive skritchy session/cat massage followed by a five minute defurring "oh god Yes she's putting pointy things on my eyeballs!" session. The AC is on very low and so now she's wrapped up in an heirloom quilt and content. I'm trying to give Ply the same attention before I abandon their furry asses to go to NH for the week. Both of them keep trying to trick me into sticking my fingers in their ears.

random question: did anyone watch the whole season of Nashville? I have 8 eps sitting on my dvr waiting to be either watched or deleted, and I can't bring myself to do either.

I see Kristen Stewart being lauded as an icon of feminism because she doesn't smile on the red carpet.

She does get that those of us who pay $10 for a matinee don't have to smile at anyone on our ways to our seats, right? If she's a red carpet event, she's at work and her work involves less sullenness than mine.

I think she gets a lot of shit that shouldn't come with the game--omnipresent paparazzi, inane questions about her underwear when her co-stars get asked about the moviie (go ScarJo for calling them out to their face--Avengers isn't actually saving the word--did you only have so many non-trite questions to go around, and ran out before her???), but acting pleasant while you're selling a package you opted to represent is not a hardship that's going to get any sympathy from me.

Yes, I have issues with dour guys in junkets too, and in specific if they're being pissy about the property they;re hawking.

When a yoghurt says "probiotic" is there an RDA of good bugs and I'll get it from their single serving? Hell, is probiotic a lifestyle? I;d always thought of it as getting the engine back in gear.