Parting Shot

A one-two punch of dad getting married on Sat and mom's old man friend having a massive stroke from which he is not expected to recover have rendered me speechless the past couple of days. Well, internet speechless. If you've seen me in real life you probably dream of the day when I'll be speechless on these (and other) subjects. In the past 2 days I have almost had my knee dislocated, paper cut one finger nearly to the musculature, worked toward dislocating a finger with a leash and just now tripped on a metal bucket and stubbed my toe so hard tears came to my eyes. So, clearly concentration is not my forte. The dog wore herself out with the Bobster and she seems to be in a lot of pain now, too, and that's kind of wigging me out, I have to admit.

I didn't want you, the internet, to think I'd abandoned you, though.

Tomorrow I head north for all things wedding and illness related. I'm also dropping my computer off with the incomparable Mr. Chili. He is planning to perform some memory enhancing surgery that he may or may not ever have done before and hopefully hand me back a system that does everything it's supposed to do, at least until I try to save too much of the internet to my hard drive again.

The upshot is that I don't know when I'll be back here since the return trip for the computer is up in the air timing-wise. I'm sure you'll be fine here without me. Talk amonst yourselves and I'll be back as soon as I can.