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Month: July 2024

  • TWIL: New MS news

    This week I encountered two new ways of looking at MS. I’m going to run these by the neurologist at the end of the month. (First, I need to see if he covered either in his podcast.) ================ First new way of looking at MS: MOGAD So, per this link, MOGAD is “an autoimmune disorder…

  • Hinge for Cats

    I was in tears after Goldie’s light went out, and Gary said, “We’ll get another cat.” I was horrified. Way too soon, my dude. Read the room. Read the room full of hysterical crying. The great thing about Goldie was that we got to know him, and won him over slowly, and watched as he…

  • Goldie the Cat, too soon gone

    I know. That title’s an awful way to start, but sadly, and suddenly, Goldie is gone. As you know, Goldie was most recently seen tucked into the cervical collar in the bookcase. We thought that eating mice may have put him off his feed. I took him to the vet, and the vet verified that…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/18

    This week Mom’s Face on a Boat went from this: … to this. I’m not unhappy with the shirt, but what has happened to her bottom lip? Has she had a stroke?

  • Review: Challenger (First half)

    This review of the Adam Higgenbotham’s Challenger book resembles my junior high school book reviews in that I have only read half the book. I am taking a break so I can see if I can go on, because I am taking this book too much to heart. That must be because I am NASA-adjacent.…

  • Ys are Back

    About a week ago, my blog provider Typepad threw a banner across the top of the editor. It warned that some things might be a little unstable, and if we just patiently kept clearing the cache and refreshing our screens then it would eventually work out. That is not a normal message from your IT…

  • Brain Damage

    When I was young, I was shy and modest. “Impossible,” you scoff. “You’re a vulgar inappropriate whore who barfs up all her business on to the internet.” “Harsh, but true,” I say. “Yet both statements are accurate.” In my youth I was always modest: shying from attention in my childhood bathing suit, covering my chest…

  • TWIL: William Faulkner wrote a very bad novel

    I was looking up the “Caddy” reference in The Sound and The Fury, and found that I have only ever read the Benjy section, and I have been referencing it incorrectly for years. I felt bad about that, until I discovered the existence of William Faulkner’s sixth novel, Sanctuary, which was just a piece of…

  • Bladder Botox: Two weeks out

    I bought a measuring device and my output has doubled. Only a drip of leakage. No one said I’d be leak-proof. No promises there. I sleep through the night for five out of seven nights without getting up. That was not promised. And best of all … I said something to Gary as I was…

  • Return of the Whistlepig

    Gary recently reported that he saw a groundhog climb into a tree in the front yard. Groundhog. Per Wikipedia, you may know them as “chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk, land beaver, and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleux.” I can attest to whistlepig; I heard…