I stayed up way too late the other night finishing a project for work that I am not equipped to do AT work, so I did it at home. Without getting into the details, suffice it to say I was pretty irritated at how the whole thing went down, and I’m still kind of tired from it. Fortunately, Flickr’s Last 7 Days Interesting feature is excellent for redirecting one’s moods. Oooh, pretty….
Tonight I think Tom and I will eat a simple dinner and spend some time kicking pixelated ass with our WoW guild.
We’re having a great time in Seattle- seeing lots of sights, hanging out with friends and family, etc. This is some video I took of some guys who regularly get booked to sing outside the original Starbucks shop (you can tell it’s the original because the mermaid is naked). They were fantastic! View the full set of photos (including new ones as I add them).
This is, oddly enough, the post I was trying to write when I decided I needed to upgrade Wordpress (and managed to wipe out my archives). Flickr wasn’t getting along with the older version I was running, so I ended up writing this post at least four times, and losing it every time.
These are my friends John and Leanne. We’ve known John for a few years, and had only been starting to get to know Leanne as her relationship with John deepened.
Less than 24 hours after this picture was taken, Leanne passed away in her sleep, due to a chest brain aneurysm that took her without warning. She was 27 years old.
The last two weeks have been a blur- we’ve been confronting the uncomfortable betrayal of our assumptions that we’re all going to live to ripe old ages. We’ve been focusing on supporting John, whose loss is far deeper than ours and who wakes up to a fresh hell every morning without her. We’ve been challenging a universe in which someone so radiant and joyful can be taken so suddenly while nasty, small people continue to walk the earth.
Leanne’s friends gathered yesterday afternoon to comfort one another and celebrate her life. It was exactly the kind of party Leanne would have liked to attend- people from all the different areas of her life, together, getting to know one another over a few drinks and her favorite music.
Related: I am well on my way to being the grandma who won’t stop fussing in the kitchen during times of family stress. Being pathologically unable to stop making jokes, I am not so good at words. But I can cook.
Look look look! I made this! It sort of, oh, moderately looks like me. I think it’s that the nose is wrong. And there wasn’t a face shape option that adequately captures the Italian Grandmother chin I have (proudly inherited from my own Italian Grandmothers).
I suppose next time I could go straight up anime and make one with big ol’ eyes and teeny little features. That would be hilarious.
Hi. I attempted to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 this weekend. I got hit with the dreaded “endless login loop” bug that the Wordpress support moderators continue to insist is not a bug. Hah. Anyway, I got fed up, wiped out my old install, and installed fresh. But now, I must import my old stuff. That may take me a while. But hey, maybe I’ll learn something about databases.
