Congrats on the house!

Neat idea for a song, Liese.

So eating more or less like crap as long as your numbers are good is basically how I keep eating a 90% starch diet, so I wouldn't criticize anyone else for doing the same.

Am I wrong for thinking it's kind of weird that we have extremely strict photo use policies, including full photographer credit for even internal uses, but no writers are credited on our website?

That does sound like some effective emoting, Liese. I look forward to hearing the song, it sounds like very much my kind of thing.

Tim's dad's diet sounds pretty okay to me. Find a couple of things you like to eat and don't mind preparing and stick with that, why not? Also, pancakes do sound delicious right now. Been a while since I had pancakes. I did have blueberries in my salad yesterday, but it's not the same.

Congrats, PMM! I hope that feels every bit as good as I imagine it does. Which is pretty damn good.

Steph, would Tim's dad qualify for and/or be receptive to meals delivered through a seniors nutrition program such as they have with CASS [link] (Cincinnati Area Senior Services)?

Tim and his brother have talked about that before. He might be receptive to it, but I'm not sure. I'm going to check that link out, though -- thanks for including it!

Jesse, in my experience writing for websites is usually done internally on a work-for-hire basis and thus the company holds the copyright, whereas photography and art is usually licensed from another party who owns the copyright.

There are exceptions; for example when I did custom artwork for my company's website a decade ago there was no copyright notice since it was created specifically for the website.

These are both by full-time employees.

OMG, someone on my hometown Facebook group just asked if anyone remembered an ice cream place called something like "Hagaaz." Multiple people have commented that it was Hager's. Eastern Mass!

Tim's dad's diet sounds pretty much like mine. Frozen dinners and things that can be microwaved or otherwise prepared quickly with little mess, few things that will rot before I bother to eat them. I eat out a lot. If someone came in and threw away the food I bought and gave me kale and rice, I would be furious. Also, even if kale could cook itself, I wouldn't eat it. Who said your SIL sounds more guilty than worried? That seems correct to me.

In health-related news, I saw the doctor this morning. Still slightly elevated blood pressure, and high cholesterol. He wants me to take a low-dose statin. I always said I wouldn't but he was persuasive, with all his "science" and "double-blind studies", so I guess I will. Am I changing my diet significantly? Eventually, maybe, but not now. I just can't make too many changes at one time.

The doctor's scale confirms I've lost a few pounds, on a steady downward trend from last September, which I guess is the right way to do it, slow and steady. It makes me feel like all my effort is not for naught, and I'm feeling much better since we found a BP med I can tolerate and my BP's come down about 20 points systolic. Adding Singulair to the asthma regime helped tremendously, too. There may be something to this modern medicine thing.

Glad to hear it, Zen!

What do we want? Incremental change! When do we want it? In due course!