Me neither, Sheryl.

I need dream Jesse to remind me about all those college classes that I somehow forgot to go to all semester only to realize it right before the final.

GO TO CLASS!!

Dream Jesse is the best! As is real Jesse (Why did I think it was "jesseh?" Is that old? Or lj?).

I was finally today able to concentrate really well for a solid five hour work day. I mean, I work partime right now, so that's a day, but my focus has SUCKED for a really long time. So, yay.

I'm sorry, Gud. That is really an unfun feeling.

I'm going to the DC Pen Show tomorrow, mainly to say hi to the super cool people from Galen Leather who are coming in from Turkey. They make (among many things) a journal with paper that is fountain pen aficionado coveted and is apparently going to stop being made (the paper) because Covid and escalating pulp prices... I got a journal from them with this precious paper for my niece's pen and journal heavy using boyfriend for Christmas, and he loves it and uses it only for mathing (he's a PhD math dude at Princeton. Fancy.) I'm going to get him more of them and parcel them out as gifts for as long as possible, because he loves them and, really, what else am I going to get him?

Anybody need anything from the pen show?

I was definitely jesseh on LJ, and probably have been Jesse H here in the past?

Ha! I am the opposite of observant then. Also... wow, lj was a long time ago!

I still identify as jesseh!

Happy to report that we jumped through the many many hoops set by the underwriter and we are getting our new house!!!!!!1!!! Our extension runs out on Friday and the buyers told us they wouldn’t give another one, so it’s just in time. Closing is on Friday, which is my 65th birthday, so how cool is that?

Also, our older dog has been quite sick for a couple of weeks and we’ve been very worried. We took him to the vet last week and he had “bad numbers” on a couple of tests, so he went in for an ultrasound today. Turns out that he’s healthy, and the bad markers are due to a dead mouse he found on a walk and managed to gobble before we got to him. The vet thinks it was probably dead from mouse poison, so our dude got a little poison which had to work though his system. So that was another piece of good news. It also proves our theory that he somehow knows how much money we have and arranges to have an expensive health problem every time our bank balance looks healthy.

Congrats, scrappy!! And I'm glad the pup is going to be OK.

Anybody need anything from the pen show?

One of each?

I must say how very good it is that this was not happening while I was there. Sooooo dangerous.

I still identify as jesseh!

Good, because apparently that's the one that I imprinted on!

Congratulations on both counts, Scrappy.

Epic - right? I know it's not my kryptonite, so that's the only reason I'm going.

Health~ma to your dad, Dana.

Congrats on the improved commute, shrift!

Glad the pup’s ok, scrappy.

My team got accepted to present at a major conference in our field! [yay!] it’s a poster presentation that has to be done in person. [not yay] But hey, the conference isn’t for months yet. [maybe yay?] But they need a commitment by next week. [not yay at all] I mean, I get that they need to nail down numbers for all kinds of things, but no one has any idea what’ll be happening with COVID and all by November. So we’ll probably decline with thanks.