Sorry about that, Laura. Fingers crossed it's a mild case and over soon.

Feel better, Laura.

The reports coming out of Ukraine are CRAZY. Huge losses by Russia.

Apparently msbelle is a dream walker...

In mine just now, my child (one of which I do not have in RL) and I were going to visit her and mac in Baltimore, where she owned six adjacent apartments in a cool, old building.

She was planning to rent a few and hold a few open for friends to visit, stay a spell, what have you. Oh, and they lived in one of them, natch.

We only got so far as the happy greetings; no adventures to report, sad to say.

Hey Buffistas. Still alive here. Fever broke yesterday afternoon. Really just very congested and tired now. Started Paxlovid yesterday so that should be helping. Still annoyed about the whole thing.

My odd dream last night was that I spilled my drink that was on the bedside table, but I was too tired to deal with it and would clean it up in the morning. I know I felt to make sure my book wasn't wet, but it was on the bed next to me. This morning, cup still upright with contents, no spill. Seriously I need better dreams.

Han I would love to see Howard Stern pay SMG

If SMG has a preferred charity and says she'll donate the lot . . . .

Laura, I'm sorry; I hope your recovery is swift.

I was going to take Jim out for a picnic at the beach for his birthday, and with the air full of smoke from the fires, now I am scrambling for a backup plan. Picnic in the living room, probably.

I'm sorry the smoke is messing with your beach plan, and a whole lot of other stuff. A picnic in the living room would likely be delightful.

Stern should pay up, and yes, they should donate it.

msbelle's dream apartments and amyparker's living room picnic both sound delightful.

I am pleased that SMG and Freddie are still happily encumbered.

Everybody was very busy sleeping in this Saturday. I will sally forth at some point to hit the Asian market and get lots of veg for the pigs and frittata. I've been making muffin tin frittatas so we can all have some portable / quick protein in the morning.

It's grey and foggy today in SF, which is welcome after the recent heat wave. (Which barely touched us for a couple days.)

I have plans to go see the new Bowie doc in IMAX with my artist friend, Jes, on Monday. I'm excited about that.

Less excited about the new maintenance project which will be chaos making for at least two weeks, but needs must.

Timelies all!

Update on my parents: My mom went back to the condo at the end of August. They've got an aide to help her in the mornings, and my dad is looking into physical therapists. Things seem to be going well.

Happy birthday wishes go out to Trudy Booth today! I hope you are doing fun stuff today and that the year to come is filled with joy.

That is good news, Sheryl.

DH is pretty miserable at this point. He was supposed to be up here for a week or two. Now he has been here five weeks. He has a basketball team with games scheduled (next weekend) and he hasn't been working out with them. We have a big complicated software issue to deal with at work, and of course he doesn't want to leave me sick, and can't be sure he isn't going to end up positive in a few days. It is a big mess. The only thing he doesn't have to worry about is me because I am fine and have family to fetch me stuff and leave on the porch if needed. Part of me wants him to hit the road, but if he does get this that would not be cool, and he can't be driving for 2 days when he needs to focus on the tech stuff. There are no good solutions.

I'm trying to stay upstairs, but the bathroom and kitchen are downstairs so I pass through often. The workers haven't shown up to do construction since I got sick, although they are working outside!! The are super Covid paranoid, which I get, but I am nowhere near them!!

There's more, but bottom line, life kinda sucks.