Thursday May 14th 2026

I had a long day yesterday, went to bed relatively early, and now I am awake, relatively early. Normally I would lie in bed, listening to NPR, but my phone died and I couldn't locate my charging cord in the dark. I am sharing a motel room with eldest ds, and I am trying not wake him by turning on a bunch of lights.

We started out yesterday, in the rain, with intentions of picking up sis to take her to her doc appt in Seattle. But she didn't answer the door! Turns out she wasn't watching the time and was in the shower. Then she had to catch her 3 cats. We left 20 minutes late, and I was already dreading Seattle traffic, which is notoriously bad when it rains. And it was. We were 45 minutes late, and the office said we had to reschedule. So we will do a tele appointment next week. Even though previously they said it had to be in person. Then, eldest ds picked me up, while dh took sis home. We got to airport, and our flight was delayed by an hour. Got here to Palo Alto, went to a meet and greet for today's conference. It was very nice, had a nice Italian meal, and a small glass of wine. Then back to motel. The conference itself is today, and we will spend tomorrow "touristing".

I like have 2 dogs, but you are right Tweety, in that elderly dogs can have a lot of expenses. I like having Boston Terriers, because they have short coats, they are silly and loving, and don't mind just kicking back and chilling. At least, when they are not breaking into people food.

On a train somewhere in Texas...

I guess I never posted yesterday. Was just going to say that I loved "All of Me" with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. Of course I have not seen it in A Very Long Time. The New Horizons jazz band played the song at our concert last week and it has been on my brain anyway, then Stars brought up the movie!

We are running about half an hour or more late getting to Ft. Worth. I have plenty of time to catch the train from Ft. Worth to San Antonio. I'll be glad for a chance to use a real bathroom and then get some lunch.

I miss our dogs but Hubs will not agree to getting one. And yes the expenses do add up. Sam had 4 teeth extracted Tuesday. The estimate had been over $900 but the final amount was just about $580. Our financial advisor would be annoyed with us.

Oh, we are here. Time to get out and eventually board the next train.

Hi, y'all!

Nothing bizarre or Earth-shaking has happened today, so far, at least in this neck of the woods. I actually did not sit up in bed and read last night, I felt so peculiar, that (because I was hungry) I ate a small can of World Planet brand of a salad of tuna-pasta-and green olives w/ pimentos, and after a few minutes I turned out the light and went to sleep. And I slept for 6 solid hours. Went back to sleep and slept for two more hours, and then when I woke up I was really AWAKE! The feeling of any pending big event disappeared overnight, thank goodness,

I can't believe it is only 2:30 PM now. I'm going to walk Tinker for the third time today. Oh, hey, I found a tick on her ear last night but didn't know where my tick removing tool was, so I found an old hair clip which I bent, and successfully used that to take it out. Then I took a lighter and burned it right out of this world!

Nothing important scheduled for today, feeling no pressure to do anything. I've watched some amusing videos on-line, but have done nothing worth writing about.

The dealership guy returned my call yesterday but when I found the message it was way after their closing time. So I return-called him this AM at 10:30 AM and left him a message. I was thinking of leaving him a message this afternoon, singing "This is Major Tom to Ground Control, and I'm waiting for a call from you today-ay-ay-ay", or something like that. But I probably won't. I have turned the cellphone ringer up to a startling #7, so if the phone is in my pocket when I am outside, I will still be able to hear it. I'd better remember to turn it down before I go to bed! I do sometimes get too-early-in-the-morning calla, like once at 4 AM, and then the next day at 6 AM, and this morning at 7:15 AM. All SPAM-ish calls which did leave a message, so I would have to go to voicemail, but each message consisted of absolutely NOTHING.....Ppfftt!

I did not fix the beef stew last night, but HOPE TO remember to do it tonight so it can stew in its own juices on low, in the crockpot. Then tomorrow I can eat some for my breakfast/lunch, which occurs ----around 3 PM each day, and I plan to divide up portions to stow in the freezer for another day.

I may have lost the last sentence to this post, but maybe I didn't . If you find a partial unfinished or finished message appended at the very bottom of this one.........Oh well!

G'day!

At one point my sister had four cats, two rats, and a gecko. She now has two cats, but there's some strays hanging around the house she looks after.

Safety travels to those on the road or about to be.

I'm having spaghetti with lentils this week. Had it for dinner last night and tonight. So far so meh with the digestive system. It's really good and I don't miss the meat.

First day back to work was okay. We were short a nurse. They pulled a tech but she wound up being a no-call no show. I don't get it. But at least it was her turn to float and it was the other floor that had to deal with it.

A friend of a friend contacted me that my friend was dying on hospice but didn't elaborate and I didn't pry. We lost touch lately. We were in a gay book club and a 12 step program together. We also got together for a couple of Pride events. Sad because he is younger than me.