Kevin's Watch

The old computer chair had we had was an antique......1930 something wooden office chair. I'm sitting here in a new chair! My back doesn't hurt! Life is good!

Great morning. Golden brown Belgian waffles, perfect coffee, and Schubert's Trout Quintet playing!

That does sound like a great morning, Foul.

It's a pretty good morning here as well. Sitting on the couch, cat on the armrest next to me, browsing the web, cup of coffee by my side.

EditCouldn't resist adding this picture I just took of Ariel, the cat, in her alert state.
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Nice cat, Damelon! One of my best cats, Buckshot, was an orange tabby.

She is a good cat.

Just don't be around her when there's no Pounce in the house. She doesn't like to do without that.

Having a wonderful evening.

don't know where to start.....

wonderful...
wonderful....
wonderful.....

most wonderful night of my life!!!!!!!!!

details then?

at Mother-in-laws. her computer is very fast, i hope a preview of ours. infection working it's way through.lots of fluids. hope i am well enough for the zoo tomorrow.

Loremaster wrote:Having a wonderful evening.

Seareach wrote: don't know where to start.....

wonderful...
wonderful....
wonderful.....

most wonderful night of my life!!!!!!!!!

Is there a correlation here? Something our friends from Down Under aren't sharing with those of us up here?

Grandfather Update: Well, apparently my grandfather stopped eating and drinking after his biopsy last Friday. When I talked to him on Sunday he sounded terrible. Anyway, on Thursday he collapsed, breaking several ribs in the process. He was admitted to the hospital and is stable, but is still not keeping food down. I imagine that he will get to leave as soon as he can prove that he can and will eat.

Bad news on the cancer front. . . the kind of prostate cancer he has is the worst, and least treatable. We won't know anything about his treatment options until he gets out of this hospital and can travel to the cancer center hospital several hours away from where he lives.

I talked to him today, and he still sounded pretty exhausted, but he was trying to banter a little with me. I hope that is a good sign. My family talked it over, and due to finances and farm situation and other niceties, only my Mom and I are going to go visit him. The soonest we can do it is the second weekend of October, on the 13th. We will be driving (okay, I will be driving), and it is about a 10 hour drive there from my parent's house. We'll drive up on Friday, and stay Saturday, and leave on Sunday so I can be back at work on Monday. It's the best that we can do right now.

Aelyria Mireiswen wrote:Grandfather Update: Well, apparently my grandfather stopped eating and drinking after his biopsy last Friday. When I talked to him on Sunday he sounded terrible. Anyway, on Thursday he collapsed, breaking several ribs in the process. He was admitted to the hospital and is stable, but is still not keeping food down. I imagine that he will get to leave as soon as he can prove that he can and will eat.

Bad news on the cancer front. . . the kind of prostate cancer he has is the worst, and least treatable. We won't know anything about his treatment options until he gets out of this hospital and can travel to the cancer center hospital several hours away from where he lives.

I talked to him today, and he still sounded pretty exhausted, but he was trying to banter a little with me. I hope that is a good sign. My family talked it over, and due to finances and farm situation and other niceties, only my Mom and I are going to go visit him. The soonest we can do it is the second weekend of October, on the 13th. We will be driving (okay, I will be driving), and it is about a 10 hour drive there from my parent's house. We'll drive up on Friday, and stay Saturday, and leave on Sunday so I can be back at work on Monday. It's the best that we can do right now.

He will be in my thoughts.

Lyr: that's tough!

As for "correlations"....hmmmm...I'd say it's just a coincidence (as I'm sure Lore would concur ). Although, hey, there's lot of great things to do down under!

Sorry Sarge, no details. There's just some things I wouldn't share here on the watch (no offence to anyone).

WOOHOO!!! Had the best day on snow yet - from totally pants day on Friday (despite lovely weather), today we had shitty rainy weather and I boarded like a freakin' pro!! I got's STYLE now...yeeeeehar!

Pity the weather is looking rainy for my "Edoras" trip on Tuesday...quick! Who's in with the rain gods? Tell them to fark off on Tuesday - I'll make it up to them later!

You owe me elfgirl - we'll keep the rain in Auckland on Tuesday

Best hopes for both of you, Lyr, and for the rest of your family.

Aelyria Mireiswen wrote:Grandfather Update: Well, apparently my grandfather stopped eating and drinking after his biopsy last Friday. When I talked to him on Sunday he sounded terrible. Anyway, on Thursday he collapsed, breaking several ribs in the process. He was admitted to the hospital and is stable, but is still not keeping food down. I imagine that he will get to leave as soon as he can prove that he can and will eat.

Bad news on the cancer front. . . the kind of prostate cancer he has is the worst, and least treatable. We won't know anything about his treatment options until he gets out of this hospital and can travel to the cancer center hospital several hours away from where he lives.

I talked to him today, and he still sounded pretty exhausted, but he was trying to banter a little with me. I hope that is a good sign. My family talked it over, and due to finances and farm situation and other niceties, only my Mom and I are going to go visit him. The soonest we can do it is the second weekend of October, on the 13th. We will be driving (okay, I will be driving), and it is about a 10 hour drive there from my parent's house. We'll drive up on Friday, and stay Saturday, and leave on Sunday so I can be back at work on Monday. It's the best that we can do right now.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Thanks, everyone. No more updates yet.

On a completely unrelated note, I am having probably the worst night of my life in recent memory. There was a misunderstanding between a friend of mine and I, and I fear I am somehow to blame. Now I feel horrible that my friend is hurting, that he is mad at me, that I may have caused the whole thing, and that we may not be able to be friends anymore.

I've always wished that we humans could have a caamora of our own, because I feel the need for it right now.


~Lyr, roasting in her internal hell

Aelyria Mireiswen wrote:Thanks, everyone. No more updates yet.

On a completely unrelated note, I am having probably the worst night of my life in recent memory. There was a misunderstanding between a friend of mine and I, and I fear I am somehow to blame. Now I feel horrible that my friend is hurting, that he is mad at me, that I may have caused the whole thing, and that we may not be able to be friends anymore.

I've always wished that we humans could have a caamora of our own, because I feel the need for it right now.


~Lyr, roasting in her internal hell

Lyr, I have a friend like that--we sometimes have an extremely rocky "relationship"--but in the end we always end up making up because we're friends, because we care for each other, and even though we sometimes rake each other across hot coals, in the end we've both accepted each other's "humanity". We make mistakes, we treat each other like shit sometimes, other times we love each other in such a special and wonderful way. What I'm saying is that hopefully this friend of yours (regardless of who is "responsible") will come around. True friends usually do...sometimes it takes time. But, hey, if you can't actually name what you think you've done to make him upset and/or hurt, it can't be that mindblowingly bad (in my opinion at least).
Brave heart!

Seareach wrote: Lyr, I have a friend like that--we sometimes have an extremely rocky "relationship"--but in the end we always end up making up because we're friends, because we care for each other, and even though we sometimes rake each other across hot coals, in the end we've both accepted each other's "humanity". We make mistakes, we treat each other like shit sometimes, other times we love each other in such a special and wonderful way. What I'm saying is that hopefully this friend of yours (regardless of who is "responsible") will come around. True friends usually do...sometimes it takes time. But, hey, if you can't actually name what you think you've done to make him upset and/or hurt, it can't be that mindblowingly bad (in my opinion at least).
Brave heart!

I wish it were that way. . I could handle it. But the problem is that I thought we were just friends, and he wanted more. I didn't see it coming, and he thought that I was encouraging him in it when I was just being his friend. So when it finally came into the open, he was upset with me, and embarrassed. The biggest problem is that he isn't emotionally stable enough for a relationship, and the second is that he is 20 years older than I am. Anyway, he sees that it isn't going anywhere, but he feels like I betrayed him, and he doesn't particularly want to be my friend. . . he wanted more. Since I was his friend I care about him, so it hurts me to see all of this, and to think I had a part in it. *sigh*

What a mess.

~Lyr, crusher of hope