it's a convoluted mess
December. Joe has already been gone a full month. Logically, I know this is real, but it certainly still does not feel like it. November is mostly a blur. I spent a lot of time staring at the wall or crying—or staring at the wall while crying—and barely paying attention to hours upon hours of old cooking shows and even older cartoons. I also played a lot of Solitaire. What’s great—and by great, I mean… Keep reading…Night Follows Day…
My brother Joe died. Typing those words does not make this seem any more real or any less impossible, but it’s true. Friday, November 4th, 2022. He was 54 years old. Mom called at 8:00 in the morning. I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw her number on the screen. I knew something was VERY WRONG as soon as I heard her voice. I was not prepared for what she had to… Keep reading…Joe.
November. Week 138. Because whatever. Somehow it’s November. Already? or Only? depends on the day. Or hour. Minute to minute really. It’s also 76 degrees. In November. In Minnesota. That’s not normal. … I changed my blog theme. It’s nearly identical to my old theme. (It was designed by the same person.) But there are some subtle formatting bits that I liked better. I’m still tweaking settings and pieces of custom CSS and I had… Keep reading…Stray stream of light…
Don’t betray them by becoming familiar… Previously on Ye Olde Blog… Joel the Obstinate and Cursed Jetta (TM) was retired and Sara had an emotional breakdown over it. Then wrote a wall of text about it. Here’s another one… We’ve been having serious conversations about replacing my car for a few years. We’ve forked out thousands of dollars in repairs on the damn thing over the years and we figured when it started costing more… Keep reading…Fascinating new thing…
Do you own a car? Did you finance it? Is it paid off? Make sure you have both your title AND your lien release and put them in a safe place that’s easy to find when it comes time to relinquish said car. Anyway. Here’s a disastrous wall of text… I got my driver’s license roughly two months shy of my 23rd birthday. I had my license for a month when I bought my very… Keep reading…The part where it’s over…
October. Week 133… It’s a never ending contradiction between people “in charge” claiming “IT’S ALL OVER” while others are yelling “NO IT FUCKING ISN’T” so… Whatever. In REAL news… IT IS OFFICIALLY HOODIE WEATHER. For the current forecast at least. I am under zero delusions that we’re not going to get one last sweltering heat spike before the snow falls. But HOODIE WEATHER. I had a whole post of haphazard bullet points written, left it… Keep reading…Up at all hours…