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At the present, my LEFT foot surgery has been rescheduled for the 5th of July; hopefully nothing else will blow that out of the water. My RIGHT foot – well, went to see a podiatrist on that, and he took new X-rays of my foot that show how crippled up it looks (which never fails [...]
Another thing that was going by the wayside recently was any advance planning for the future. At this point, it’s starting to rev up again…I have two memberships purchased for me and Mere at Capricon and a room reserved; now to make sure that the $$ is there at the time. On Monday, I’m going [...]
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225492/page/1 The Power of Two: http://www.newsweek.com/id/225098 Photo gallery of the kids, etc. The Intro picture is particularly stunning. This has been in the works since spring. Newsweek came in with a Pulitzer-award winning photographer who was fresh from covering the White House and Obama and Bush to do the shots. The interviews mostly were around [...]
On Flickr (click through to it) Duckon 2009: The Cheering Section Originally uploaded by jrittenhouse No, Meredith Grace isn’t in this photo, but it shows some of the people important to her – her cousin Kailyn, her sister Mer, and her Official Con Babysitters Lois and Krista (at Duckon last weekend)
Meredith and Meredith working at the Duckon blinkies table on their stuff (click photo for larger version) on Saturday. (courtesy John Ridley)
Some months ago, we and the other Meredith’s family were contacted by a prominent reporter for NEWSWEEK to be part of a story about a twin study that has been going on by Dr. Nancy Segal of Cal State Fullerton. (We’ve been in the separated twin study for a number of years.) When she heard [...]
The short end of it is that Susan, Meredith and I will be totally occupied with a Seekrit Project from about dinnertime Thursday to Friday evening (the first night of Duckon). Mike Harrington is flying in on Friday morning from Birmingham to be Duckon’s Science Guest of Honor, along with his daughter Meredith Ellen, and [...]
Got the reservations in for Duckon yesterday, and working with the con to make sure that the twins can bop back and forth between the rooms at night. Trust me, this is important for them and for our sanity. Susan decided to not go off with her mom to Sioux Falls for the Memorial Day [...]
Very frustrating day on a lot of accounts. More after the cut.
More raves and cheers for the document scanner, which is now making serious hash out of a ton of work crud that was too valuable to just pitch (My boss asked me the other day for web materials from MANY years ago) along with home stuff. I’m just bedazzled by the thing, I swear. Zip-zip-zip [...]
Yes, I’m still tired and a little wobbly, but I don’t expect my trip to the hospital last week to mess me up for the near future, including Duckon. THAT I will not miss. And no, what I had was not the flu, swine or otherwise. They tested for those. What was going on, over [...]
Spent the day basically cranking on organization in a dozen different ways; getting the new Quicken setup moving along, paying bills, tossing stuff, organizing out papers and scan-bait and moving it out of my office and into tidier quarters, and so on. I’ve had a lot of loose office-supply stuff that I really haven’t used [...]
The monstrosity is ditching her skating class for the con, and is going to be in full cruising-for-tweener-con-fun mode this weekend. The horror, the horror.
…both courtesy of Lisa Ragsdale:
Meredith in my lap at Windycon, being vivacious – courtesy of Lisa Ragsdale: Notice the lack of beard, of course.