Once of the big library database companies also is in the sport-fishing industry. Companies are weird.

ahahaha, was it EBSCO? They also owned a pecan processing plant and about a zillion other weird industries.

Also, I've had this stack of Beer Advocate magazines I've been trying to get around to reading. I pulled out the next one up and who's picture should I see in the contributors page? Our very own Nora!

Yay! I should have something coming out in the June issue as well about NOLA Brewing. Also I'm on the beer tasting panel in this month's All About Beer and have a feature in either the August or September issue of AAB as well.

Timelies all!

This weekend is the Washington Folk Festival. Weather forecast is typical for the festival- hot and humid, with a possibility of showers Sunday afternoon.

Also, we are going to the Rush concert tomorrow night. Music weekend!

Go Nora!

Whee, Sheryl!

Things I can not say. You want ANOTHER copy of the Child Support order and parenting plan? What happened to the original or the copy I scanned for you a while back or contacting the courts to get your own "official" copy. I know you don't like what is in there. You want to be done at graduation, but you have until he is 19 (just a couple of more months, but deal). Plus you are still obligated to pay your portion of his medical and dental bills that you have ignored for months/years. I've let that slide but you aren't off the hook. An no, it is not only if each individual expense is more than $150. It is only if annual medical/dental is over $250 - which, yep, they are. Significantly. Orthodontia, yo. Which you know. I've given you a head's up of each an every expense as soon as I knew about it - planned and unplanned. Just...arrrrggggggg. Nevermind you told our other child you would support her for a year and then kicked her out to my doorstep. I'm not complaining about having her and she has never been disrespectful to me, so I still have no clue what the problem was. But that is on you. All you. There is a darned good reason for the divorce and all this just reminds me over and over again why I made that choice.

I'd say rant over, but I don't think that is going to happen. I'll just try to keep it inside my head as much as possible.

Burell--with J, it was his calf and it was very painful, warm to the touch and swollen--his sister (who is a nurse) took a measuring tape and it was an inch bigger than the other calf, which is what prompted her to tell him he had to go to the ER RIGHT THAT MINUTE.

I just have to bitch about this somewhere. There's a semimonthly meeting I am invited to Monday at 9am, that I will attend if the report that is sent out prior to the meeting lists my accounts as relevant to the discussion. The report is sent out on Friday after I leave. It's almost like they don't want me to know what's going on.

I am home now, though, and resolutely trying not to think about work stuff. Shall I open a bottle of wine? Start reading Wolf Hall or perhaps something fluffier? Take a nap? Even these decisions are taxing me.

Are "skytrains" as romantic and delightful as they sound?

I don't know what a skytrain is, but I think there's one at some airports. Where it is decidedly unromantic.

A former coworker (from when I lived in DC, and worked at a place where everyone was social together) was in town with her husband, and we had drinks, which was fun...except turns out the reason they went on a cruise to Alaska is because she has Stage 4 cancer and is doing bucket list things! BOOO.

And now my tummy is not happy with the wine I drank or the stinky cheeses I ate, but I want to go dancing later.

Aw, sorry about your former coworker, and I hope your tummy lets you go dancing! Wine and stinky cheese should not get in the way of dancing in a just universe.

I think they are "airtrains" at airports? "Skytrain" sounds so much better. It might be for the best that I don't really know what it is.

I am drinking wine and reading Wolf Hall, btw, if anyone was in suspense.