by CJ | Aug 22, 2016 | Journal
Some of you who were at Shejicon may have remarked that I was moving a little slowly, a little uncertainly—in point of fact the years of sitting at a keyboard have taken a heavy toll since we gave up figure skating: just years and years of not-walking,...
by CJ | Aug 20, 2016 | Journal
Mine, currently: spaghetti and meatballs, and I’m really particular about the meatballs. But buy them frozen from Costco…being lazy. I often use Classico tomato sauce—again, since cooking is what I do in 20 minutes after work…from a jar....
by CJ | Aug 20, 2016 | Journal
Mine, currently: spaghetti and meatballs, and I’m really particular about the meatballs. But buy them frozen from Costco…being lazy. I often use Classico tomato sauce—again, since cooking is what I do in 20 minutes after work…from a jar....
by CJ | Aug 19, 2016 | Journal
Nuff disasters. How do you like your eggs? Let’s have some silliness. Mine…if scrambled, I want them whisked once around a hot pan and served. I hate hotel eggs. If fried, over very easy, or an institution from my childhood, ‘basted.’ This is...
by CJ | Aug 18, 2016 | Journal
Jane wasn’t feeling well, think she picked up a bug. And…she went to close down her 50% complete novel file (as I think: I hesitate to ask) and the program simply showed asterisks as a file name. Three months of delicate edits…and gone. Whole file,...
by CJ | Aug 18, 2016 | Journal
Jane wasn’t feeling well, think she picked up a bug. And…she went to close down her 50% complete novel file (as I think: I hesitate to ask) and the program simply showed asterisks as a file name. Three months of delicate edits…and gone. Whole file,...
by CJ | Aug 15, 2016 | Journal
Today they sealed the work just done. But I feared a full set of x-rays would find more problems, and they have. Another bridge, this one needing the anchor tooth extracted next Tuesday, with a bone graft, three month wait for that to heal and ultimately an implant,...
by CJ | Aug 13, 2016 | Journal
It’s not, in my opinion, necessary, but it is over the long haul—a chimney starting to have loose bricks at the top is going to admit water, which in our climate means ice, which expands joints, etc. So the scaffolding will stay up until Tuesday, giving...
by CJ | Aug 11, 2016 | Journal
Just makes you full of energy. No. OTOH, it seems it’s a good thing to count your pills. I counted mine, seeing the vial looked less than full, and I’d also lost track of my doses, so I counted and subtracted. Walgreen Drug shorted me 5 pills....
by CJ | Aug 10, 2016 | Journal
This one took an hour—because the person who did the first one on this tooth 10 years ago missed a root (branch) and used pins with a cement that resisted being removed. Got it, however, and am back on antibiotics. Sigh. On the genealogy front, I turn out to...
by CJ | Aug 6, 2016 | Journal
our neighbor urgently fears it will. What we have is two loose bricks. We had a chap assess it. We really don’t need another bill this year (my endodontist appointment is next Wednesday, to be followed by a dental appointment, etc) but—we did figure that...
by CJ | Aug 2, 2016 | Journal
A yellow, Texas Dawn, and a dark red, Midnight Ruby…hardies, to live in the deep end of our pond and take the place of the winter-shield during the summer. A tangle of lily roots and pads and blooms is an anti-predator measure that’s pretty besides. We...
