Memnison Journal

Yesterday was my first day out with both feet in REAL shoes; it was snowing in Chicago, and I had to go downtown to have my monthly all-day session with the leukemia docs and get my IVIG treatment.  The two dogs had torn up my sleep a lot the night before with getting up and [...]

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Day three of the Sissy visit: pictures at Susan’s photo-blog.
Susan:
Today was the American Girl Place shopping spree. The girls got up and showered. Dash was a happy dog since she got to shower with me and then with the girls. I poked my head in the bathroom to see if everything [...]

The complete set is here at Flickr.  A sample after the cut:

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

Partially the fault of Paul Riddell, and partly for Mark Evans.

How to clean and cook a squirrel
Dog cuisine…Korean style this time
Wild game at Grizzly’s Lodge in Gold Coast Chicago

I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year.  Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]

WIth a tip of the hat to Rich Johnson, I think that the two books that best exemplify to me the whole Wall Street scene / banking world were LIARS POKER and FUNNY MONEY.    The author of the former just put out a fantastic article in Portfolio Magazine, which I highly recommend.  A brief set [...]

Susan and I took advantage of the federal holiday (but not one for the elections people) to go for the first day of early voting.  We have to, because we’re election judges.  The ballot was light - only a scattering of races, and in our heavily red area, a lot of the more local stuff [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

Article from the local Chicago papers in mid-1986 quoting from interviews with me, my ex, Gretchen Roper, Neil Rest and others about fannish activities, with mentions of Thursdays, the old floating weekly party.
jar_lernerpapers_081486 (PDF, .7M)

Back from the meeting with the leukemia doc, and Susan’s totally worn out and has stumbled upstairs to bed to crash.  Her leg’s been really bad today; the doc says that it’s a type of knee problem, where you aggravate the knee and a cyst with excess fluid forms in the back; in her [...]

This has been a post that I’ve been dreading to write, and have been putting off for a long time. But at this point in the game, I want to put it forward and clear the air on a subject that I’ve been keeping quiet for a while. The few people who already [...]

Meredith during the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas was Miss Quiver All Over for presents and goodies; once the pressure was off, she was Getting Bored.  She was bitterly disappointed that Kathy and Zach could only stay for a short while for Christmas dinner, which was magnificent (Ribeye roast, mashed potatoes, oyster dressing (the best [...]

Kurt and John, on the living room couch in mid-December.