Super crossing my fingers for you on that, too, meara!

Sending love to you all and all the Dads

I will join lisah and ND in sending all the ~ma~ and comfort to the Buffistas and dads who want or need it.

(I'm not ready to talk about my week yet, but I have reconnected with a couple of Bay Area-local friends, and that has helped enormously. I'm ok, surviving but not yet thriving, as they say.)

Today Tim had his 6-month follow-up for his back surgery, and the doctor said he's doing extremely well. At this point, he’s allowed to do basically whatever he wants, because the vertebrae are fusing and the muscles involved in bending or twisting aren’t going to be strong enough to fuck up the fusion at this point. (I told him it’s back to cage fighting for him.) He also gets to go back on NSAIDs, which is a huge relief. NSAIDs can inhibit bone growth, and he had been taking a prescription NSAID for his RA pain, so he had to stop it for the first 6 months of recovery to be sure the vertebrae fused properly. Having to stop taking the NSAID really sucked, so being able to restart it will reduce his RA pain and just improve his quality of life that much more.

Glad to see good Tim news!

Hugs and hairpats for all the less good news as may be accepted

If I waited for absolute thriving to post, I'd be Halley's comet.

Just catching up to, err, Oct. 2023.

If L0is T. is around: Did you post on FB that you've emailed me a bunch of times? Cuz, the last email I have from you is from 2008. So. I'm thinking maybe a hack, or an email misspelling? My two addresses are the one in my addy here, and he one that is my name @ my full name.

Yes! I did. Now to remember what that was about. Based on Stuff happening in general, it seems simultaneously just a little while ago and about 3 years ago.

Timelies all!

There are lots and lots of boxes in our house. I'm not sure if all the stuff from storage is back here, but there is a good amount.

Going to pick up Luna from the boarding place tomorrow. Don't know if she'll remember me, and I'm sure the house smells different, so she may be hiding for a while.

Health~ma to DHs and dads.

The tenant did respond to the fire department knocking.

Issue was smoke from the stove (and/or oven). So not an emergency, just an alarm. Thank goodness.

Same thing happened to me at my old apartment, sort of. Around 11Pm, heard a beeping figured out it was the smoke alarm next door. Went out into the hallway, other neighbor had also come out to investigate the noise. We agreed that we smelled smoke, so knocked on the door. I called 911, fire department came, concurred with the smoke smell. They banged on the door with a fire ax, no answer. Eventually broke the door open. Could see smoke and hear the beeping. They were in the apartment before the tenant woke up and came out of the bedroom. She'd falled asleep with food on the stove.

Many years ago I lived in an apartment complex on the first floor and woke to the sounds of firemen talking outside my window that they were going to have to break in. Someone in the building had reported smelling gas and they had knocked on all the doors. I had managed to sleep through that. Neighbors had apparently told them I was in there. When I heard them I got up and let them in. They never found any issue, but I told them I was cool with them having to break in if they thought I was in trouble. (and apologized for sleeping with earplugs)