I drink very, very little carbonated beverages. One sip has me burping like...a burping thing that burps. My beverages of choice are tea, water, flavored water, and whiskey. Occasionally leamonade.

I have already had a shot of whiskey tonight. Before 5pm. Eeep.

I did it! I queued up Good Stuff all the way through the weekend! Now I just hope the queue works.

Are there more comprehensive day programs he could attend, Jesse? I know there are some with medical staff, where you can get meals and transportation, and Medicare covers a lot of them.

I'm a little surprised that Cassandra Clare was just a Jeopardy question. Right after a question about F. Scott Fitzgerald .

He doesn't need medical care, is the problem.

was just a Jeopardy question.

Seriously? I assume it didn't have anything to do with plagiarism, did it?

And the only thing my mother's really having an issue with is overnight. And the transitions during the day, but I think we've gotten that covered (and she's retiring in 6 weeks).

Sadly, no, Tep.

It gives me the feeling (with the movie out right now) that you might be able to buy placement in a Jeopardy question. I could be entirely wrong, but still.

He doesn't need medical care, is the problem.

Oh! But he doesn't have to. I just had to write a piece about this topic, and I think over 50% of participants in all programs nationwide had either dementia or Alzheimer's.

Does your mom need help overnight regularly, or is it just if she's traveling?

Regularly -- it's that he gets up many times in the night, and has started to pee on the floor a couple of times. Theoretically they could make the apartment back into a 2-bed and sleep separately with a health aide in the room with my father, but how terrible does that sound? (To me, terrible.)

Oh yeah, that's hard.

Sadly, no, Tep.

I figured no, but no matter how big her books get, I still always associate plagiarism with her first.