at least on alternate days!

"I messed up"

Apparently those are the words of an air traffic controller in New York, after a plane collided with a firetruck.

Can you imagine how this person feels now? To know one mistake led to death, destruction?

Well, I don't have to imagine.

I know, because I made a mistake that caused the death of an elderly woman.

I was working in long term care, and I and another person were trying to lift the woman using a machine called a Hoyer lift when I made a mistake, she slipped off, and cracked her head on the base of the machine, and died.

I'm in the process of getting HRT. I've seen the psychiatrist, and my doctor is submitting the referral for the endocrinologist. I'm a happy girl!

of exercise

Well, I had an adventurous night. Went to bed early, then was woken out of a sound sleep by the sirens a bit after Midnight. Very windy. Stayed up about an hour and a half, mostly watching Weather Underground on TV, and trying to get the weather radar on my phone to show current conditions. Things got quiet again and I went back to bed. Thunder finally started sounding in the distance. Still sleepy.

Hope other members had things as easy as I did.

Okay so we got a notice a week ago about the owners bringing in another round of roach control, and since I was sick and mom had her arm in a cast, we kind of panicked, but then we got help from Mike and Carol's handyman and we were as done as we could be this morning when we thought they were coming.

Then I looked at the notice again, and realized they are coming on Thursday, not today.

I mean, at least we are ready, but we could have done without the stress, you know?

got some bad news about my mom's arm today.

I phoned the hospital about getting her cast off, and was told we were supposed to have it looked at 2 weeks after she broke it, and either they forgot to call us or we missed the call.

So now, if there is damage in there, its been too long to do anything about it. and she has limited mobility in 2 of her fingers.

sighs, I feel like a complete failure in terms of looking after her.

I have just come back with another meeting with Mike ( my personal angel. I wasn't so happy with my makeup this time. I don't get much practice, and I was very nervous going out.

My mother has been very ill and now has dementia. The last time I met with Mike was in November, I was told my mother was dying and had to rush back before I got a chance to dress. She recovered, and told me she went to heaven and was told she had to go back as it wasn't her time..
A near-death experience? You best make up you're own mind. I do believe there is something to it.

Good news: we got laundry and groceries done today.

Bad news: I am now a mass of pain.

i've had so far today!

or rather its bgrd up what i had planned!

-Dr Nick Voice-

Hi There Everybody!

So, I've spent the week working on the server layout, and getting us more resilient than we have been for 2 years.

We are currently split amongst multiple virtual servers again, as well as being able to scale our resource usage and whether attacks (intentional or accidental) better than we have been in a while.

And she was watching the last of the current season’s auditions this evening; she had previously recorded it so that she could watch it at her leisure, which obviously turned out to be tonight. The last person they auditioned was singing a song he had written for his father, who had died of leukemia. I wasn’t really paying attention to most of the show as I was reading while she watched, but something made me pay attention to this last audition.

I put up a little essay about my brother, enjoy!

busy writing that is.

Hi everyone!

I just completed a full week back at work after a week off for snow. Sadly I was sick that week with an upper respiratory infection. I usually write early in the morning, but all last week I woke up feeling like death warmed over and didn't feel better until the afternoon. Luckily, I guess, I got better right in time for work.

I just wanted to share a bit about myself this week.

yes, we are already 1/12th of the way through 2026!

can only mean one thing - i've been out on the bike!

but complain ye not!

which just about sums up this week.

And had The Alan Parsons Project playing on random shuffle. A very good friend of mine introduced me to Alan Parsons during my freshman year of college, way back in 1978. I fell in love with the group - Alan Parsons, Eric Wolfson, Ian Bairnson, and all of the wonderful work they put out. The music of The Alan Parsons Project was the soundtrack of my life for decades - good times and bad. It brought me up when I needed it, and it was there to keep me company in some of the lowest points of my life.

I have tried to write but it just is not there. Getting much more forgetful but I can still find my way home. It is doubtful that I can blame the present political madness.

Dementia??? Who knows.

Gwen Brown

Had the weirdest dream last night.

I was at some kind of award's ceremony, with a film I made up for an award, but I was actually hoping a friend's film would also get honored.

To my delight, we both won.

don't ask me what it means, folks . . .