Thanks Pix! He's a challenge, that's for sure.

Not surprised by the Christian Kane allegations. My crush on the guy didn't survive actually meeting him back in 2004.

jesus fucking christ can we not have anything nice?

I don't want to jinx anything, but being a fan of Dolly Parton has never let me down.

Agreed, Matt. My Dolly love only seems to grow whenever there are new revelations.

I've been getting way too little sleep the past few weeks. Brain won't stop. I sleep soundly and wake wondering if it is morning; it will be 1 AM. Sleep again and wake at 3:30. Too often that is all she wrote. Had this happen a bunch of times last night and gave up at 6:30, which is normal time for me to get up. I wish I was a napper, but that has rarely been an option. Zzzzz

Another day of packing. Sorting through non-perishable food stuff, toiletries, and clothes. 4 categories: 1.Can't live without and take with wherever we stay for a week or so until we move in somewhere. 2.Will move to floating home when we buy one, most likely at the Palm Beach boat show which opens the day after we close on the house. 3.Put in storage to fetch as needed or to go north later. 4.Why do I still have this it needs to be tossed or donated.

Probably will take some pictures and put things in Marketplace today. I have never done this, or Craigslist, or eBay, or anything like that so kind of terrified. Bigger stuff like the couch and bedroom dressers.

My cousin Brian is coming to visit for a couple days. Probably today, maybe arriving tomorrow. He is driving. He lives in Ohio so I don't see him often, except sometimes in summer since he also goes to his family home in the Adirondacks for visits. He is a delight and will take my current level of disruption in stride.

I'm really not surprised about CK. I didn't know about any of this but I've been expecting it. Just .. I dunoo a vibe I guess.

What makes me the most pissed off is that no one did anything about it. It's not just CK who I have an issue with now it's the show runners as well. Dean Devlin and John Rogers had to know about this and they did nothing.

jesus fucking christ can we not have anything nice?

This.

What makes me the most pissed off is that no one did anything about it. It's not just CK who I have an issue with now it's the show runners as well. Dean Devlin and John Rogers had to know about this and they did nothing.

I was having the same thoughts.

Hec, what a sweet note from your sister.

Continued benign~ma.

wraps Cass in latex free bubble wrap

I read more of the article. I got so frustrated and was so sleep deprived I didn't finish it (I didn't sleep last night again). Devlin knew.

Now I'm wondering what happened on the set of Almost Paradise.

So M's nephew's girlfriend is in labor. She's 17 (I think) a senior in high school at least. Yesterday morning her water broke and now it's been over 24 hours and still no baby. The last I heard this morning she was finally at 7 cm (this was a few minutes ago) I know there is a big group video chat going on with all the anxious family members but so far no update on the baby.

I can't remember the middle name but her first name is Adalay. I think that is the spelling. I like the name although it's gotten a few kinda of side looks. Even if I didn't like the name I still would lie through my teeth and say I liked it and pushed back on any negative comments. I personally hate when people are negative about baby names. At least no one seems to have been like that to the nephew & girlfriend directly.

Yeah, it’s the sense that this was the culture and atmosphere and there was no one to go to about it that is really upsetting.

So insidious. Yuck. And yeah, I’m not as shocked as I should be.

JZ is off at the garden apartment in our new place with a just-out-of-the-box Shark vacuum cleaner and a rented Rug Doctor, and Matilda is off to GG Park for a friend's birthday.

Emmett and his girlfriend, Kalena, will be moving into the garden apartment come May 1st and I'm excited to have them living in San Francisco. A dream for both of them that never seemed likely.

Once we move into the new house, they will slide over into our old apartment. (And then the garden apartment will be open to guests, and used as a separate social/work space within the house.)

We met with our tenants and a window specialist yesterday, and we're fixing all the beautiful curved turret windows which have dry rot. An expected cost when we bought the place, but we're getting to it quicker than we expected. Should be all done before we move in.

The contractor said, "It's expensive now but this work should last the rest of your life." And I'm good with that. Next stop: new gutters.

ION, Matilda got the hoped for/expected job offer to repeat as a summer camp counselor with Parks and Rec. That's great news and that locks her into activity and money from June to mid-August.

She's had money all school year from what she earned last summer.