Real Life

We put Merlot down this morning, ending her fight with squamous cell cancer of the jaw. As redmed notes, we had around 55 days from the diagnosis of “days to weeks” in which to say goodbye. Let us not discount the value of having time…

You wanna know how bad off the cat is? I just gave the cat a sponge bath (she hasn’t been able to clean herself very well for a while, and she smells pretty bad) … and she *liked* it. Purring and purring and offering one…

My brother’s wedding last weekend was absolutely beautiful, and I need to document it in another post. First, though, I want to set pen to paper about our late night adventure with the belligerent drunk. The wedding was at my dad’s place, which is about…

I had forgotten about one endearing aspect of home ownership: Since property transactions are matters of public record – there are advertising groups who scour those records with incredible efficiency in order to send out official looking letters offering products for your mortgage or house.…

I spent most of yesterday working on the house. We’ve started dividing the world into critical-path and non-critical activities. Critical-path is “anything that is actively keeping us from moving into the place.” Non-critical is everything else. We then proceed to laugh at ourselves because we…

I was awakened most horribly this morning. My cat, Merlot, has a cancer of the jaw. It involves bloody drool. This morning, I think that she was feeling sick and lonely, so she came and sat on the headboard above me as I slept. Aaaaaaand…

So I’m coming back from lunch yesterday, having dropped off the check for the shiny new gutters on the shiny new house. I reach the path from the street to my door and I see this bird clinging to the underside of said gutters. I…

Got my “Home CFO” hat on this morning, and I opened up a letter from redmeds employers. It was one page saying basically that they hadn’t received a response to their request for information about clinical privileges, and they were following up. Then I got…

Had a productive day at the house today. We: * Removed all the flourescent light fixtures from the main floor* Installed sliding locks on a couple of doors.* Made a couple more doors actually open and close correctly.* Took another layer of paint off the…

Pro: The little Chinese restaurant on the corner has pretty flavorful vegetarian entrees – and they get substantially better if you chat with the cook and ask him to make it like he likes to eat it. Con: More traffic noise than expected on my…