| RIP Steve Jobs |
[Oct. 5th, 2011|08:46 pm] |
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Your vision and creativity will be missed. :( |
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[Jul. 31st, 2011|08:17 pm] |
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Does anyone else watch Haven? Am I the only one obsessed with this show? |
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| WTF? |
[Jul. 5th, 2011|02:23 pm] |
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So where is the justice for the murdered child? How in the hell could they have said she wasn't guilty??? |
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| Not amused |
[Feb. 22nd, 2011|11:51 am] |
SNOW. After we had 74 degree on Friday, we have SNOW.
Stupid groundhog.
:P
But I know others have it far, far worse. My thoughts and prayers for those in NZ. |
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[Dec. 10th, 2010|07:52 pm] |
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Today SUCKS. |
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| Head, meet desk |
[Sep. 20th, 2010|11:47 am] |
Annoyance is when your son's $5000 insulin pump upon which he depends for survival suddenly conks out. The insult added to the injury is discovering that the damned thing went out of warranty exactly 27 days before conking out.
Thank heavens for health insurance and flexible spending accounts. |
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| Still in Vegas, but... first week of photos |
[Aug. 10th, 2010|02:03 pm] |
Been busy, but here are the first week's worth of photos from Vegas...
( Sin City! ) |
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| California |
[Jun. 20th, 2010|10:46 pm] |
I love San Francisco. Not too wild about Haight-Ashbury, but I adore the rest of it.
Dropped the Boy Child off at Stanford, he's hyped to spend the summer amongst fellow geeks. Love the campus - it's quite charming, and the weather... yeah. Given the choice between this part of California and anywhere else in the world, there just is no comparison. If it weren't for the ground shaking once in a while and tossing things around, I could live here forever very happily.
Back to Maryland tomorrow. :( It's probably in the 90s will 1000000000% humidity. :( Wish I could take the weather here with me!!!! |
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| Note! |
[Jun. 14th, 2010|02:48 pm] |
Do not ever, EVER, let ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scribbulus_ink send you pictures of spiders if you want to sleep at night.
That is all. |
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| SPREAD THE WORD |
[Apr. 19th, 2010|11:17 am] |
I am quoting this verbatim from taradilien. This is HORRIBLE!!!
This is outrageous. There is a link, and a petition. This cannot happen to ANYONE else.
Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells their home.
Clay and his partner of 20 years, Harold, lived in California. Clay and Harold made diligent efforts to protect their legal rights, and had their legal paperwork in place--wills, powers of attorney, and medical directives, all naming each other. Harold was 88 years old and in frail medical condition, but still living at home with Clay, 77, who was in good health.
One evening, Harold fell down the front steps of their home and was taken to the hospital. Based on their medical directives alone, Clay should have been consulted in Harold's care from the first moment. Tragically, county and health care workers instead refused to allow Clay to see Harold in the hospital. The county then ultimately went one step further by isolating the couple from each other, placing the men in separate nursing homes.
Ignoring Clay's significant role in Harold's life, the county continued to treat Harold like he had no family and went to court seeking the power to make financial decisions on his behalf. Outrageously, the county represented to the judge that Clay was merely Harold's "roommate." The court denied their efforts, but did grant the county limited access to one of Harold's bank accounts to pay for his care.
What happened next is even more chilling.
Without authority, without determining the value of Clay and Harold's possessions accumulated over the course of their 20 years together or making any effort to determine which items belonged to whom, the county took everything Harold and Clay owned and auctioned off all of their belongings. Adding further insult to grave injury, the county removed Clay from his home and confined him to a nursing home against his will. The county workers then terminated Clay and Harold's lease and surrendered the home they had shared for many years to the landlord.
Three months after he was hospitalized, Harold died in the nursing home. Because of the county's actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property. The only memento Clay has is a photo album that Harold painstakingly put together for Clay during the last three months of his life.
The link at the beginning of this post includes more information on Clay's struggle as well as an email address for the local press, which has so far ignored this story. |
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| Ramping up for the second round... |
[Feb. 9th, 2010|10:54 am] |
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Ten to twenty inches more snow starting in about 6 hours... Sigh. SO tired of this! :P |
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| Snowpocalypse 2010 |
[Feb. 7th, 2010|02:31 pm] |
Warning, image heavy - pics of the awfulness.
( let it snow... NOT! ) |
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| Karma |
[Jan. 31st, 2010|11:31 am] |
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I sincerely hope that my next door neighbor who saw me out shoveling the snow in our common driveway and not only did not come out to help but who waved me out of the way and drove his truck over the snow before I finished and packed it down so I had to bash at it gets every bit of the karma owing to him. >:( |
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
[Jan. 1st, 2010|12:50 am] |
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My wish for 2010 is that all of you have a fantastic year! :D |
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| WOO! |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|07:25 pm] |
So tomorrow Uh, the day after tomorrow... is scribbulus_ink's birthday, and even though it won't make it to her until afterward for a few assorted reasons, I finished making her birthday gift. :D This is definitely the most complicated thing I've ever knitted, but I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.
Happy Birthday, McKay! Thank you so much for more than five years of fantastic friendship, writing, and general hilarity! :D I hope that the coming year brings you all the joy and fulfillment you deserve!
( English Mesh Lace Henley for McKay ) |
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| Happy Holidays! |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
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I hope that everyone has a most joyous winter holiday, whatever they choose to commemorate! :D |
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| Oh, my |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|09:41 am] |
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Examine the snow. It fornicates. |
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| Tis the Season? Guess not. |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|06:38 pm] |
Tip of the day:
When you're modding a fest and a participant emails you to tell you that she's upset over her gift because it contains elements that she had on her "do not want" list and she explains why Element X in particular upsets her so much, your response should not be to defend the writer of the gift by saying how the writer worked very hard on the story and had a different interpretation of Element X than she did if you want to generate good will and good PR.
No, this isn't about Snusa. |
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| Buffy vs. Edward |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|09:33 am] |
This summer my husband, knowing my hatred for all things Twilight (sparkly vampires? SRSLY???) bought me a shirt that says "...And then Buffy staked Edward. The End." And then today I found this linked by annakas on LJ: Buffy vs. Twilight.
YES!!!!
(No intended disrespect of anyone who likes Twilight... Everyone likes/hates different things, so to each their own. :) |
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