Had one, do NOT want another. Mostly we're swirling around the status quo and not having a lovely time. :(

Maybe will post more tomorrow. Tonight, I'm taking cough medicine and going to bed. Was going to do some other stuff, but hacking cough has descended and is making staying vertical difficult. *sigh* Bronchitis is not my friend. Stress is also not my friend. However, I believe they are well acquainted and may well be best friends. This, somehow, makes perfect sense. Too bad it also makes me ill.

K, off to bed.

Saw the dentist yesterday. She did the first part of a root canal last week and this was the finish and fill part. Took nearly four hours because my blood pressure suddenly decided to act up and not go down (even with nitrous). Managed to get it all taken care of, but was less pleasant than it could have been. Turns out there's a credit on my account, so I didn't have to pay anything for the visit (this happened once before, but was odd). I need a crow to protect the new root canal or the tooth will split again and have to come out. The billing person is supposed to find out if I have enough benefit left to cover the crown. I hope so. She's supposed to call me when she finds out.

I've set up appointments with the internal meds doc and the OB/GYN. Get to see the internal meds doc the week of Thanksgiving and Dr. S. (OB/GYN) the following Monday. I need to do something proactive about the blood pressure, if nothing else.

Here it is. PLEASE post something funny or cute, k? Thanks!

Mostly mine. Not for the obvious reasons, but because my little boy's heart is so visibly shattered tonight. ;(

I have been noodling around w/the DW site. Its an interesting place, but still feels a little scant in the actual journals/communities to peruse or join in on. There are plenty of cool people, just seems like most of them are under 30. *shrugs*

I have an account over there, have posted a couple of brief entries and am waiting for someone to stumble over me in that venue. :) If you have a DW account, please drop by and say "hi". If you'd like an invitation, please let me know...I have one to give away. :)

This doesn't mean I'm not reading or posting here, I am, just that its a new community space to explore and possibly fit into.

Woke up with weather-induced migraine and ear ache this morning. Not fun. Was supposed to go to the dentist at 10, but not going to go hang out nearly upside down with this much sinus pressure & light sensitivity. Nope. Called and canceled appointment. Will call in the morning and reschedule. Two more periodontal cleanings and then the real "fun" begins.

Did I mention its been raining--off and on--for nearly two weeks? Yea, like that. Rain is good, but too much of a good thing is a Not Good Thing. Ground is super saturated and its starting to affect moods & other migraine-inducing triggers. More rain in forecast. *sigh*

L has an orchestra concert this evening. She told me about this on Sunday. *shakes head* At least it wasn't yesterday or this morning. She's being very agitated and scattered right now. I'm hoping its just the new school, new school year and general school related anxiety. If that's it, we'll be over the evil "hump" in about six weeks. I suspect its a bad case of Tourrette's induced social anxiety, but she's also a little worried about some of her own thought-processes and behaviors. To the point that she said something to me about it yesterday when I picked her up from school. Poor kid. She's ticking badly and trying not to say "bad things". Have to call her ped and see what she thinks. Maybe time for the kiddo to see a councilor or maybe we need to head back to the pediatric neurologists' office.

Z is still in marching band. Still a bit conflicted about it. They won a Division One title award at city competition last weekend. The only marching band in their division (there are four) to win the Division One Title and all five of the competitive awards. He was stoked. He even got to march during this performance. They have another, bigger, competition on Saturday afternoon. They're working hard and I suspect they'll do equally well at this one. He probably wont be in band next year, too much hassle for him, but I think he's actually enjoying most of it now.

I'm noodling around with my DreamWidth account. Posted a couple of things, so if you're on DW, drop by and say Hi :)

Right now, I'm going to put a call in to the ped and take migraine meds. I foresee a lot of downtime today. Wish it were for something more pleasant than head and ear stuff.

;)

Last week was the first week of the new school year. Mostly it went fine. We did have some hurdles (a bus that was too early two days in a row that stressed out L and made me have to take her to school--when all she really wanted was to go to school on the high school bus like the other kids in our neighborhood). Had an update/emergency special ed meeting at L's school on Thursday to reinstate her home-training stuff from end of last year. This is mostly organizational and social cues she needs some extracurricular help with and everyone at the meeting agreed that this was fine and reasonable and we all would have been out of there in ten minutes except that the district has gotten itself a new computer system w/all sorts of new forms that have to be filled out--even for simple stuff like this meeting. Took about two hours to do something that should have taken about ten minutes to finish. Poor kid, she missed one whole class and half the next (and ended up in the wrong class when she got there because the physics class was moved while she was in the meeting. Didn't do much for her attitude or the rest of her day).

Z's first week at high school went relatively more smoothly. He doesn't like all the construction and renovations they're doing to the building. Can't say as I blame him, its dusty, dirty and extremely noisy around there. He also had three band commitments last week (k, I had one of them, he had the other two). He performed at the Friday night football game for the Eastside Cluster (all the Eastside high schools and senior highs bands did a short halftime performance). He was very annoyed at the pitcrew (big instruments incl. drums and other hard to march with instruments), as they screwed up the walk onto the field tempo and threw their entire performance off. He's afraid they'll be running laps on Monday (not just the perps, but the entire band). Will have to see how that pans out. He was supposed to be involved in a march-a-thon, but I had a migraine Friday evening and took meds accordingly. There was no way I could get up and drive twenty miles to the next town over's stadium at 6:30 Saturday morning! I hope the kid doesn't get into too much trouble for that--wasn't his fault and I felt bad about him having to miss it, but if I can't see to drive, that seems abit more important than the other thing. *shrugs*

L loves most of her classes and is really enjoying the more relaxed campus atmosphere at the senior high. This is a very large campus (its about the same size as the newly converted college campus that's about six blocks from our house) w/four large buildings, a duck pond, and it shares about 30 acres w/a dairy farm, so there are cows that just wander up to the buildings at all hours of the day and night. :) It is, however, a much noisier campus and she's not too thrilled with that part. Working with teachers and earplugs seems to be helping.

We had our last gaming session with our friends the Raglands last weekend. We've been playing Earthdawn with them for about a year, which was great fun. Unfortunately, they were transferred with short notice to Richmond, VA and they're leaving bright and early in the morning to go start their new lives out on the east coast. I'm gonna miss them. They're the first real, in RL, friends I've had living close to me in a very very long time. Not sure how to feel about this, actually. A bit sad because I'm losing my running around town and getting into mischief (yea, right) partner (midnight movies and being goofy at Starbucks on Tuesday nights w/a bunch of other goofy knitters/handicrafts folks). But I'm also really happy for them--a lot of families in their spot aren't getting transferred, but are looking at a long unemployment stint w/the economy the way it is (He's in banking and they're closing the office he works in--that's how they landed here last year). We've made some tentative plans to drive out there later in the fall or next spring and hang out at their new place and then drive up to D.C. to visit museums and such. I hope we can manage something like that. Would be nifty and great to see them again.

I've spent the weekend dubbing/converting old cassette tapes to mp3 format. Kind of tired of doing that for now. Mostly I was dubbing some really old filk tapes for them and I still have a pile of them to get sorted and mail to them sometime after they get settled.

Another active week ahead. Probably should try to get some sleep.

Today: We conquer the World, erm, The HOUSE! ;-)

Tomorrow: The teens head back for a busier than ever beginning of an academic year. Usually the first day is fine, but this year, we're running blind--no Open Houses, no introductions to new facilities and no walk-throughs of class schedules. They have both been instructed to present themselves at the front offices if they have any problems and it being the first week, there will be much tolerance for tardiness and such. Next week could be more interesting.

Z is going into the high school this year. He's excited and nervous. I think he'll be fine once he gets used to the new building (even the 10th graders will have much to adjust to this year--they're in the middle of a major renovation that took the front of the building off during the summer and mad other structural changes, too). He's in marching band and while he complained about band camp, I think he really likes being part of the gang. We'll see how that works out.

L is heading off to senior high school this year. New campus (with four large buildings on 32 acres--why is a high school so huge? They share the campus w/a dairy farm! Cows on campus. Only in TX) and new course system. I'm not sure how this is going to work--the special ed staff there is even less hands on than the high school system and she's not had a walk-thru of her schedule. Hopefully all her classes will be easy to find. This is the first year in six when she doesn't have a dedicated art class. That's going to be weird for her. She does have a multimedia class that she's somewhat excited about. I'm hoping she likes that. Z also has this course at the high school level (exactly the same class, different campus). Have to get hold of advisory folks to set up new meeting to get more suppor services for her. Tried all summer to get hold of someone over there to set this up, but nobody returned phone calls or emails (they all took the entire summer off, apparently). *shrugs*

Tomorrow I'll stick pretty close to home--not anticipating any trouble, but you never know.

Mostly for the kids rooms. L's organization coach is supposed to come over tomorrow (Monday) and help her, but J doesn't want anyone "strange" in the house. So, we're doing it this weekend.

Mostly the kids are cooperating. Z is whining abit, but he is doing something in there. L has gotten most of the papers off her floor and organized in such a way as to they can be dealt with more easily.

I have a den filled with books (in stacks, arranged by kid & type), Legos/K'nex/Bionicles pieces/parts, misc. papers and toys.

I have to go crack the whip over 'em as they're taking a break. They have exams this week and Friday is the last day of school for this year. L will be taking a couple of classes to help smooth out a seriously overcrowded schedule and Z will be doing band camp the first four days of summer break and the last 3 weeks before school starts back in August.

Busy, busy, busy.

Had someone look at Moriarty (the HP laptop that slagged last spring). After doing some investigation and looking at the machine, the tech discovered that HP probably knew about the problem with my lappy. In fact, he says that they recalled several machines with the same graphix card because it was known to overheat and cause problems (including the same issues I had). Unfortunately, the model I have wasn't covered by a voluntary warranty extension.

The problem appears to be that dodgy graphix/video card. It fragged the motherboard and melted the case around a tiny screw in the right bottom corner making it difficult to take the case off and pretty much impossible to repair. :(

I'm annoyed, but not surprised. There doesn't appear to be any further redress. All correspondence with HP has gone unaddressed. Taking them to Small Claims Court isn't really an option--would cost more in time, energy and money to see that through. I gave the poor beasty to the tech guy to dissect as he sees fit. I don't need a six pound doorstop and he is still finishing up his certification in computer hardware repair. I hope he gets some use out it.

So that's it. I will not buy another HP laptop (and will have to thing long and hard about buying anymore desktops from them) in future. I'm using J's old HP media PC, which has some quirks, but will hopefully last another year or so. To help insure that data loss isn't an issue, I did fork over some money last week for a 1 TB external harddrive to do regular backups and general storage. Its working pretty well, so far.

As mentioned on Facebook, I have about a zillion (+1) things that really need looking after/tending/fixing/doing this morning. Nothing out of the ordinary...its simply Monday. Everything happens around here on Monday for some reason. ;0

Just had a very annoying phone call interrupt one of the things I'm trying to sort out (checkbook, ugh, hates checkbook...no wait! Loves money, hates math! *g*). Anyway, 800# and I picked up without thinking about it. Hey, I'm on the Do Not Call List, state and national and I don't currently owe anyone money, so what's to worry, right? Right. Wrong-o. This was the third or fourth call from (probably either bill collector or telemarketers) for the previous owners of our house. That wouldn't be nearly so weird or noteworthy, except that we've owned this house for 7 years! The people who formerly owned it haven't actually resided here in over 8 years. The phone number these sharks called has never been associated with the former owners (or address) and has been our perm landline number for 12 years. When I explained this (again) to the not too clueful female on the other line she placidly asked me if I knew (name of former owner) and how they could get in touch with them? Umm, no I don't know them (gave them a buttload of money 7 years ago, but don't know them or where they live or how to contact them). After all that, she still wanted me to tell her how to get hold of the former owners! What? I dunno. I'm not my former landowner's keeper. Last I heard (7 years ago) they were living in Tyler, TX. I don't have a clue where they might be now and personally I don't care. Except that if this sort of thing continues (or escalates) I'll probably have to find out just to keep the danged phone sharks away. :(

Not too happy about that.

So, back to the usual Monday busyness.

heh, need to clear the cobwebs outta here ;)

Been a very busy month (plus) since last posting.

Had more meetings with schools (kid related, nothing bad, just the usual and transition stuff for Z). Both kids will (likely) be heading off to new schools next year (senior high for L and high school for Z). It looks like L may take a slightly longer route to graduation (depends on whether we can get her through ASL or not next year). That's fine, she's happy with that (still). Z is looking forward to 9th grade. I'm dreading it as that seems to be the watershed year for problems with all kids regardless of their developmental maturity in the PISD system. :( We'll play it by ear, and at this point, I have entirely more experience with this transition year than I really want.

Saw a couple of movies (blanking on them right now, of course). L and I tried to sit through Watchmen, but ended up leaving about an hour in--Not because its a bad movie, but because we went with the fellas to a (local movie grill and eating greasy food and watching much bloody mayhem don't mix well. The boys enjoyed the movie and didn't have any problems with being squicked out by combo food/gore. (This was the first time I've had to take L from a movie theater since she was about 8--she went to the ladies room about 45 minutes into the movie and I went to see what was wrong about ten minutes later--she was queasy and uncomfortable and several ladies were trying to get her to tell them what was wrong...She was handling the nosy folks fairly well, actually. She didn't want to stay for the rest of the movie, so I took her home--we'll watch it on dvd, sans greasy food ;)

I've also been catching up on series (and missed eps) missed during the last ten years ;) Watched all of the new Dr. Who series (I'm a little conflicted about how much I like the new format, but that's another post). Watched both series of Torchwood (again with some conflicts, but Cap'n Jack is sooo cute!). This past weekend I sat down and watched the entire run of DEAD LIKE ME (Plus the direct to dvd movie)...wahhh, I want more George! :) The Free TV Project has been a very good place to catch up on most of these. However, I discovered SurftheChannel.com last week and have been catching up on some HBO series that I have missed (right now watching TruBlood, not sure I like it enough to look for the new season next year, but I still have four episodes, so maybe I'll change my mind). Some interesting stuff there. I need to sit down and watch the last two episodes of Heroes (missed because of illness/appointments)--it was starting to get interesting again.

I managed to do something highly painful to my lower back. Ended up in the ER with severe back spasms and came home with meds and instructions to take it easy for a week or two. Ha! Finally starting to feel almost human again (its been a week and a half). Had a setback day yesterday, but today feel pretty good.

What're you folks up to? :)

Been a busy month (aren't they all?). Kids are doing well in classes (mostly, L is still having some issues with Geometry and Latin, but I think she's making progress, so that's a goodness). The hubby is on vacation till the end of the week, so he's keeping things hopping around here during the day (mostly by playing lots and lots of Warhammer Online). I've managed to keep up with most of the areas I got straightened up/de-cluttered. Not making any headway on conquering any new areas, but I figure that'll happen sometime.

Both kids have Transition IEP/ARDs coming up in the very near future. L's is on Wednesday. Not sure what to expect there, as the folks from the senior high school are only allowing half and hour to forty-five minutes for each session and I've never had one of these that lasted less than an hour--more like two. I am not adverse to making them schedule a second meeting if I think the situation warrants the extra time. She's, basically, got two more years before she's finished with public school education. There are many things she still needs to get through before she's going to be ready for college or the Real World. I'm hoping we'll get through them without too many more bumps in the road. I'm not counting on it, but it would be nice. ;) Z has his transition to the high school IEP the first week of March. Its hard to believe he'll be all grown up and out of school in four years. I think the Transition meeting for him will go fairly smoothly. This time round, I have a clue what's going on and being forewarned is forearmed and all that.

Z has been bugging me about writing stuff lately. He's learning how to draw managa from his sister and he's interested in how stories work. This being an odd year (heh heh), I have actually been doing a bit of writing. Not much and mostly in the revising an old project. We'll see if it goes anywhere.

Spending entirely too much time on Facebook. Its fun, mind candy and at some point I'll get bored there and find something else to occupy my time.

What're you all doing to occupy your spare time (yeah, I know, what's that?)?

Hmm, lots o'cobwebs in here! Been 'the usual kinds of busy' around here. Except for the evil traffic ticket (taken care of now) and various activities at the kid's schools, its mostly been quiet, too. Yay.

I had been sent a summons for jury duty for later this month, but after sending in the standard questionaire and a brief letter explaining our situation (two autistic teenagers with no supervision = not a good idea), I was given a dismissal from the court. Wouldn't have minded doing the service, but there really isn't anyway to handle the kids for something like that--especially after them having to deal with Mom in hospital already so recently (they're pretty good with small changes, but anything big makes them itchy and angsty).

We had a massive storm front come through just a little while ago. First time we've had a serious tornado warning for our part of the county--even though the civil defense siren went off AFTER the actual tornado was already going out of the area (still no confirmed twisters, but some pretty nasty wind shear indicators on radar and a huge storm wall reported about two miles from our house). Kids got up all excited and scared. Took a bit to get them back to bed afterwards, but they finally drifted off to sleep around Midnight. Its raining out there right now, but no more fireworks in sight. Just as well. And our new fence seems to have held up just fine. More Yay.

Spoke to the cardiologist last week. He's puzzled and a bit clueless as to what happened or if it might happen again (weird chest/back pain, odd EKG readings, wonky electrolytes). His best guess is that its either acid reflux (don't have acid or excessive bile, so pretty sure that's not it, but maybe??) or a gallbladder that's about to go wonky. Just had tests done to make sure that wasn't the case, so again, not sure what he's thinking. He did say there appears to be nothing wrong/damaged with heart, valves or vessels and there's no signs of heart disease. All good things, really and truly. Just very odd about that episode end of October. I'm supposed to call my doc and go in if I have similar symptoms in future so that they can do a more thorough sonogram or CAT scan on gallbladder...and to treat acid reflux and see if that helps.

More later, its getting late and I have kids to wrangle in the morning.

How're you folks?


LK

Sixteen years ago, today, J and I were married in our tiny apartment across from campus. We were surrounded and helped to celebrate the day by a good many of our friends and family.

While it certainly hasn't been a bed of roses, I can honestly say that things have never been dull and that, overall, I am quite content with how things are going now and where it looks like things may be heading for our future.


:)

There are all sorts of ways to spend your Tuesday. One way I can highly recommend avoiding is to spend it being poked, prodded, and otherwise having medical stuff done to you.

Had weird pinchy-pully feeling in chest on Monday night, woke up with same on Tuesday morning. Called nurse and was told to come in for check (women present oddly for all sorts of nasty heart ailments--the Better safe than sorry method of medicine was being practiced). Had an EKG, which turned out to be more weird than usual (I have weird EKGs, they're not unhealthy, just weird) and my primary care doc sent me to the heart hospital for more tests and bed rest.

I got lots of tests, only little bits of the bed rest. :) They duplicated the EKG results (during a stress test this morning where one of the techs tried (unsuccessfully) to run my legs off), but weren't sure what's causing the abnormality. Heart and valves all looked good on sonogram, no evidence of cardiac event in the blood work (yay), but still with the weird chest pain and the off EKG reading. The one possible culprit is that my electrolytes were off (especially the Potassium and Magnesium). The charge nurse told me last night that that very well might be the culprit (or part of it), as low Potassium can affect the EKGs among other things. Will have to talk to the regular doc about adding supplements, I think.

Also the cardiologist wants me to come to his clinic in a couple of weeks and have a chemically induced stress test done. I hate those. But maybe he'll figure out what's going on. Personally, I'm hoping this was a fluke and my next EKG will be back to its original weirdness setting.

They turned me loose around Noon today (Wednesday) and I've been home puttering around, getting kids from school and that sort of thing. J brought the kids up to the hospital last night--both kids were kind of freaked out--poor rats. They were both very happy to see me sitting in the carpool lane this afternoon. L hasn't let me out of her sight pretty much since we got home, either.

Oh, the chest pains? They pretty much disappeared after the second (of three) doses of Potassium drink. Really makes me wonder if that's the culprit. I've had the low Potassium before due to one of the blood pressure meds I take leeching it from the system. But never had this sort of thing happen.

Its good to be home. I'm going to go fix some turkey burgers, watch Ghost Hunters and chill out for a while. ;)

LK
{feeling better, but also like a dressmaker's pin cushion!)

Remember all the drama (k, not so much drama, but hey) about getting the new HVAC system and vetting different local companies and such? Well, sometimes it doesn't really matter how much you check up/into some companies, they still go belly-up in the middle of the night. :(

Happened to the company that put our new system in last fall. They were out here in late May/early June to do the freebie maintenance (checked out the A/C made sure it had plenty of freon/coolant, whatever) and they told me to call back towards the end of October to schedule the Fall version for the new furnace. Well, I called this morning. First someone from a totally different HVAC service company answered the phones. I asked if I was talking to someone from XXXX ? No, I was told, they had folded and sold all their customer lists to this other company! Yikes. And they hadn't sold them any of the forms or information, just names and phone numbers. Uh oh.

I asked if they were going to be honoring the other companies outstanding obligations and was told that in some cases they were, but it was on a case-by-case basis. I asked if they'd come out and do the final freebie service I was owed with the old service? She didn't know, but she'd try to get the manager to make a decision in the morning. In the meantime, they're sending a tech out sometime in the morning between 11-2pm. If they honor the old service contract its free...otherwise I'll get stuck with a $59 charge (this is about average for the area, so might as well have them do it as anybody else--I guess).

Its annoying and a little disconcerting to have a company do that. Apparently they just closed up shop, without notice last week. Feel bad for their techs and installation folks...not to mention their long term customers who are looking at not having their service contracts honored at all. Sux. :(

Glad I didn't let them talk me into the longer service contract.

Ugh.

And the gas company came out and replaced our meter this morning. That would have been fine, but the guy(s?) who did it left a heck of a mess and I thought they were through. Called the company to see what was going on and walked back into the kitchen to do something...where I noticed the huge mound of dirt/mud was tamped down nice and neatly and there was nobody in the yard! Course, they left the back fence open, but its hard to get to close properly, so I can live with that. Was just very weird--went to drop L off at school at 8:40, came home at 8:50 and there was a huge mound of stuff in the yard bigger than our dog! Less than ten minutes later, that was gone too...weird.

Did the end of month bills. That was nice. Had enough money to pay folks and enough money to keep food on the table till the 5th (knock on wood), so that's all to the good.

Just kind of being a Monday, I guess. ;)

LK

The kids and I spent the majority of Saturday in Addison at FenCon. Didn't see much of the actual con, but had a good time, anyway.

Our new gaming friends-family are dealers (he makes chain maille jewelry and she knits). They had a table set up towards the front of the Dealer's Room and the kids and I spent all day roaming around the con site and meeting back in the Dealer's Room to regroup and touch base. T and I spent a lot of time lusting after all manner of interesting filk and finally went in halfsies on most of the cds on hand from the Bromdinagian (sp??) Bards (a fun duo who are going their separate ways after nine years of creative collaboration) and Three Weird Sisters (we didn't manage to beat the ravening (who knew?) hordes back to the Dealer's Room to purchase any of their cds, but that can fairly easily be fixed by some judicious online snooping. :)

I also bought several more of Theresa Mather's prints (she does dragons and cats and other fantasy critters) and I saw four small prints that neither kid had and which _I_ wanted (actually I did duplicate one of the dragons Lizz got last year or year before last at ConDFW, but that's okay, these are _my_ prints :) and one slightly larger print I managed to get from auction, even though I didn't attend the auction. I was pretty amazed I walked out of there with anything from the auction. Her work goes pretty fast and the folks who collect her work are pretty ferocious when it comes to bidding. But I did manage to get the very pretty yellow butterfly dragon print (though not the blue butterfly dragon print nor the one larger print from another artist, whose name I did not catch--bother). So I have some artwork to put on the walls when I get around to clearing things out and painting. *wry grin*

L, Z, T and I went to the last concert for the B-Bards and we had a splendid time. Bought six of their cds (I bought three and T bought three and we are going to do some swapping sometime real soon). L, T and I also managed to catch the big Three Weird Sisters concert later that afternoon. Definitely a fun concert. No joy buying any of their cds, though.

After the last concert, I took the kids home so they could eat dinner (was Dad Time, you see) and I picked up my pitiful little binder with its limited selection of music so that I could go sit in on the filking. I haven't done this in years. T came with me (she's a big filk fan, too) and we had a pretty good time. They set it up so that there were two filk rooms available. One larger room for Chaos filk (which is a freeforall format) and the other was bardic (more civilized and everyone given an opportunity to participate if they so chose). They even managed to coax me into singing one song! Yikes. Haven't done that in a very long time. I don't think I muffed THE DOCTOR'S POCKETS, too badly. :)

And about one o'clock, I headed back out for the wilds far north DFW area. Managed to make pretty good time and arrived home about twenty-five minutes later. Got to bed around three and was back up this morning to go feed pets at T's house.

Overall, it was a very pleasant way to spend most of the weekend. J took the kids to the mall for dinner (not sure what that was about, but hey, the kids seemed to have enjoyed it) and they spent part of Sunday afternoon prowling around the comic book shop and one of the hobbyist places looking for strategy boardgames and new anime.

Oh, and L got introduced to Dr. Jane filk. She even decided to buy her own cd, so there is dinosaur/prehistoric beasties filk in the house! *g*

I've just finished the early weekly shopping (hurrah) and am about to put the last load of clothes into the dryer before conking out for a couple of hours.

Sorry, got busy and missed yesterday. And I'll probably be super busy later today (Saturday, just barely) and Sunday as I'm taking the kids over to Addison to FenCon! We'll see what I can get done in this thread around filking and hanging out with folks.

For today, I think I'm going to post a couple of websites of interest. Will add those in comments, as I'm currently updating some of my ghostly paranormal bookmarks and need to see which ones are still valid and which have, well, given up the ghost! *g*


LK

This is the open call for ghost stories (personal experiences, second (third? fifth?) hand accounts of anything spooky or ghost-tastic. Fiction is fine, please mark it as such (all rights revert to author, no reproduction of said material tolerated without express permission of original author--play nice folks).

You can post poetry, stories, excerpts (keep within Fair Use Rules/Laws and credit original source), 'True' or true accounts, bits or rumors. Review books or movies/TV shows with ghostly/paranormal themes. Whatever. This is supposed to be a bit of fun for October leading up to Samhain/Halloween Night.

I'll open a new thread every day (if I remember, if I forget, somebody post a note in the comments for the previous day, k? thanks).

Have fun, play nice and let's see what kinds of ghostiness we can 'encounter'. :)


LK