There is mixed news on the automotive front, but it appears in sum that I have a better than even chance of getting to Ubercon.
The truck will not be ready until early next week; this makes our efforts to get trash to the dump considerably more complicated, but we’re working on it. However, the [...]

There is as yet no word on the truck, beyond that the garage is backed up and turning away work (one of their mechanics had a baby this past weekend (actually, his wife had the baby, but he’s out for the week) and they are very much backlogged). Our houseguest got his car back [...]

Today was marked by a trip to court for another member of the household; since we’re still working with the rental, I had to drive. The truck turns out to be bad news–not the starter, the flywheel, which means several hundred dollars to pull the transmission to get to it. Ah, well–we agreed [...]

Things have been a bit odd with the truck off the road. The trash cans did not fit in the trunk of the rented car (let me mention that as a problem with the mid-sized Ford Focus, in case anyone is car shopping), so we’re packing trash a bit tighter trying to make it [...]

It appears that I will be driving a rental this weekend; the truck did not make the worklist at the mechanic today, and our houseguest can’t even guess what has his car out of commission. It is to be hoped that the truck will be back Monday evening, but it is not by any [...]

I’m still coughing, but I’m better. Got Mr. C to school, and was halfway to Wally world with the Cuteasaurus before the first cough this morning, I guess. Maybe if I do another day of mostly goofing off, I’ll finally be on my feet sorta. I have the fearsome example of a [...]

Today seems mostly to have been about cars. I had to borrow one from one of our houseguests, who got an alternate ride to work and left me his keys. I used this to make arrangements to move the truck to our mechanic, who says he can probably fix it tomorrow afternoon–which would [...]

I managed, with a bit of help from the printer’s technical support staff, to upload the corrected file for the book About the Fruit. That was a positive thing, but I was up until five finishing it, and up again at six, struggling to keep myself awake and to awaken the schoolboy. I [...]

Kyler is home tonight. There is much rejoicing.
When he left, we all expected that he would be gone into early November, and would miss Ubercon for it; however, he did so well that they announced a while back that he would be finished tomorrow–and then decided this morning that he could leave today. [...]

Many of you will by now have seen the news that J. K. Rowling has stated her heroic and much-revered character Dumbledore is “gay”. Already I have been asked about this, and I will be giving my answer here in a moment. What interests me more is her revelation, more quietly reported, that [...]