Life plans are awesome, go team life plans!

In light of which, I have produced my first successful at-home Manhattan. I had to replace the maraschino liqueur with raspberry liqueur, but it seemed to work fine. ... this could be a problem.

I also found a dog-sitter for my trip to family camp in July, yay!

After work I went to BevMo and bought Dad a case of different beers. He likes his beer in the afternoon, even though he only drinks about 3 ounces of it. It was nice to see him, but he mostly just slept while I was there. If you have to have dementia, the way he's got it isn't too bad. He sleeps, he watches tv, he goes on outings, he eats, he drinks a little beer.

YAY dog sitter. We are trying a dogvacay person. Meep.

Ugh Kat, poor K's mom. Let me know if I can help

Can I say DH was so very blase about the UCLA shooting? He was said he was trying to ignore it so he could work.

If you have to have dementia, the way he's got it isn't too bad. He sleeps, he watches tv, he goes on outings, he eats, he drinks a little beer.

Honestly, it is great that you can frame his dementia that way, especially since you can't make it go away. But I do know that you had to take a long road to get to this point.

And back to Kat's post, what is the purpose of calling the police on a 6 year old? I can see calling the parents, but what are the police going to do? It's been a rough school year now that I think of it. I didn't mention either event at the time, but one of Isaac's poor classmates had a massive meltdown and attacked both several teachers and students (Isaac suspects she was bullied), and one of Franny's classmates died after going into cardiac arrest at school. Truly tragic, I think I didn't mention them because they both seemed so unreal and awful and yet they didn't directly involve us. Frances didn't really know the boy, but she had friends and especially teachers who were very sad. All of which is to say, in a very mememe way, there's clearly too much strain on kids these days.

Kat, I have a friend who runs a pet sitting business, if you need a dog sitter rec

Oh crud, I just found out the victim in the UCLA shooting was a young professor

Cute dress.

Good luck with the time allocation, shrift, that sounds like a good move.

Oh, Kat, what a hard day! I wish I could help with the logistics, somehow.

And that is a lot, Burrell. Those both do sound unreal and awful.

I have heard very little actual facts about the UCLA deaths. I suppose I should look into it. Maybe tomorrow, I can't imagine that would be restful research to do.

Excellent Tai Chi class tonight: the Four Corners and Lead the Horse to the Stable. Couple more classes and we'll have covered the whole form.

That's cool, -t

I decided to take a dip into Leverage on Netflix, considering how many people here love it. I didn't finish the first episode, because I saw the plot twist coming ten minutes before it played out, and I can't fast forward through the 2nd episode's Bad Actress Proving How Bad She Is scenes (plus the How They're Doing Our Vets Wrong premise is a bit anvily). Is this a case of a new series just finding its feet? Should I just bear with it for the character backgrounds, or is there an episode I should jump to where things start to gel?

Oh my gosh. Calling police on a six year old? Wtf? And Burrell, that sounds horrid, wow.

Why is it that the one morning I don't have an early meeting (tomorrow) is the morning that trash and recycling pickup is, and the trucks come through around 7am right outside my window? Sigh.

Oh, Kat and Burrell, that is all too much.

When I was in grad school there was a shooting. A failing grad student shot a professor during a final. I was across the street at the time and saw the distraught students from the class, followed by the shooter, come out of the building. This was... 1999 I think. And the only thing that has changed is the procedure for what happens after a shooting.