Oh Karl. That's heartbreaking.

Although one or more of you (can't remember exactly who) gets credit for amusing my doctor - when she was warning me what sort of ultrasound she was ordering, I said, "Oh! Dildocam." She had never heard it before.

Heh. I once made my ObGyn turn bright red and choke/laugh using that term. "Is that what women call it?" "The women I know do."

I got through a lot of my to do list, and the remaining things on it I have decided I don't care about.

Now I'm torn between finding news I can listen to or read basically nonstop or completely avoiding the news.

I got back from vacation at 2am last night (this morning) and I have to say, I am really not impressed with my reentry into civilization. I would like to go away again and when I come back I would like for Russia NOT to be starting a massive world war and for Texas NOT to be actively engaged in state sponsored child abuse.

Worth a try, Jess. It would be nice if that worked!

Timelies all!

I'm back, after not being able to get onto the board fro over a week. I have to reset my password every day for some unknown reason, and the e-mails with the link to the password reset were either not getting to me at all, or getting to my inbox sufficiently late that the link didn't work. Added to that, we went to Boskone this past weekend, and the charger for my iPad decided to give up the ghost.

Anyways, glad to be here, and hopefully the e-mails will keep arriving in a timely fashion.

Oh, dear, Sheryl! Glad you made it today!

I'm looking at the world right now and my urge to just get in the car and start driving and just somehow get away from all of this is super strong. It's not a rational urge at all, but I can viscerally feel the pull to just start driving until I can be someplace to start over where the world isn't like this.

I hear that ND. Hugs. This whole thing is such a shit show. I’m leaning heavily into reading trashy escapist shit but that’s it really good for me. [edit: that’s NOT really good for me]

I did dishes AND laundry today. But there are still dishes in the sink because I made more stuff after I washed the first bunch. Never ending!!

I am also embracing the fiction. Very engaging science fiction where the bad guys are fictionally OTT bad, and soundly defeated.

It like a deal will be signed this morning, with a closing date of March 23rd. Ya know, I'll believe it when we close, but it is a cash deal so no potential issues on that side, and they plan on major structure altering renovations, so not worried about inspections either since they are tearing off the roof and building additions and all that stuff.

{{Karl}} and {{ND}}

In the midst of all the world craziness I decided my best move was to buy art. Yeah, I don't know either, but it beats doomscrolling. I got prints of these: [link] , [link] , and [link]

I mean, I'll be donating blood at the Red Cross later today (planned before all this [waves hands] everything) and donating to relief agencies when I have a better sense of where it'll be useful (probably the UN Refugee agency: [link] ). But as stress reactions go, I guess "throw art at it" is probably not the worst. Mucha was also a person who didn't like Slavic nations to be taken over by their larger neighbors, so there's that.