Revelry Reverie

The traditional gift for the 14th year is ivory (wow.) and the modern gift is gold jewelry. I was hoping it was steel, because for our anniversary this year, we went to Pittsburgh, PA (but steel is 11 years). I offered to buy Bob a bunch of flashy gold jewelry, but he wasn’t super into…

Probably don’t even read this one! No one will be happy by the end! EDIT: I literally just realized that this is why they put a heart monitor on me and gave me a paper that explained they did this so the ICU could monitor me remotely, since there wasn’t room in the ICU for…

Near my house there lies a cemetery. I looked up the difference between a graveyard (romantic sounding) and cemetery (industrial sounding), and found out that graveyards append churches, whereas cemeteries do not. But you can really use them interchangeably, and more or less, people won’t mind the difference. Before I had surgery, I spent a…

I have to start by saying that I physically feel nearly all better. This is good and expected! It’s a relief. I am getting tired out very quickly – like I had to take a nap yesterday around 3pm, and I did not expect to take a nap it just happened. My day was a…

This is just a random assortment, and probably not much worth reading.

Last Thursday, I had my gallbladder out in a routine, out-patient procedure. From the off, things didn’t go well. First, the nurse slid only about half of the needle into my hand for my IV. She pulled out the sharp and then stuffed the rest of the tiny flexible tube in, piercing the wall of…

I have been blogging with WordPress.com for 13 years! Many of my colleagues have been blogging on WP.com for quite a bit longer, and WordPress the open source project celebrates its 20th birthday this year. I’ve been too busy working and moving and taking classes to blog much so far this year. I blogged more…

I was in late-stage high school when I found out who the Grateful Dead were. I (very logically) assumed they were a death metal band, and that the fuzzy bear image was, you know, sadistic. They are not, and it is not. While everyone else on earth knows who they are, I’ll elucidate anyway –…

We’ve had a cool spring, with wet May days and a few hard frosts. I had to bring my hanging baskets in last week so they wouldn’t die. This isn’t super rare for May in New York, but it’s been making me reflective this year. A few weeks ago I started taking this course, which…

This past Friday (Apr 28), I turned 42. What a time to be alive! Forty-two is fun, because it thrives in pop culture, and it’s more interesting than superstitious numbers like 13. Of course, just aging into a neat number isn’t exactly an accomplishment, so here are some things I am going to do at…