March 29, 2008
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Sweepstakes Winner, etc.
Mitch Seavey was first into Nome last night. Jeff King and Lance Mackey were not far behind him, and standings show Sonny Lindner and Ed Iten in 4th and 5th places. The rules say that the win is not certified until 24 hours after the first 3 teams have finished, so sometime in the middle of tonight, the official results will be posted and the winner will get his $100,000.
I don’t know who took that photo. It wasn’t me. I found it on the AASS website.
My son Doug has a D&D session scheduled for today, and if the other players fail to show up for it, he’ll probably DM a d20 Future game, so I won’t be on the computer the rest of the day. I spent my morning answering messages, looking up things for the wildforaging series and catching up with a few of my subs.It just occurred to me, I haven’t checked my email in a couple of days… be right back….
Okay, now I can relate some boring facts about my uneventful life while my latest 71 emails download.
Wednesday, Greyfox drove up here with a load of supplies for us. He had been grumpy about the necessity of doing it so soon after his last trip. I had forgotten to add cat food to the shopping list the previous trip, and that is one of those things we don’t want to run out of and hesitate to pay the exorbitant prices locally.
As things worked out, and as they usually work out for us, his trip was timely and fortuitous, because the clinic had gotten my asthma meds in on that very day, from the patient assistance program. I rode up to Sunshine with Greyfox and he got the details he needed to know to provide them with all the info they have to have in order to recertify us for the sliding fee scale.
‘Scuse me a moment… the email just finished downloading….
Well, that was a loong moment. There were bills to pay and messages to answer.
Where was I? Oh, riding around in Greyfox’s Mazda MPV… That reminds me, the time before this one, as soon as I got into his car, the heater blower started to work. All winter, it has been on the fritz and he has to get the car moving to get any defroster action, which can be hazardous in an Alaskan winter. The time before that one, it was Doug who “fixed” the heater blower by getting into the car to go for a water run. The kid’s fix didn’t last long before Greyfox fritzed it again, but the blower was still working several weeks after I did it. Greyfox has that UTM (unconscious technical maladept) talent that Niels Bohr and Joe Bltzflk had, being able to screw up mechanical or electronic stuff with his mere presence. My kid and I have the opposite, UTA, talent.
The Old Fart has a gun show this weekend. He set up his tables yesterday evening and when he called me last night he was mildly upset because a whole box of his most attractive knives had gone missing. He thought someone had walked off with them while he was unloading his car. This morning he found them, in a smaller box than what he had thought they were in, under two other boxes. *big sigh of relief*
I guess I’m progressing in my recovery from the winter’s respiratory crises. It’s an up and down thing. I was feeling okay, plenty of energy and hadn’t needed the nebulizer for a couple of days before Greyfox got here Wednesday. I carried some bags in from the car, and took that ride up to the clinic with him, then cooked lunch for us, and was breathless before he headed back down the valley. That night and the one after, I was awake every couple of hours to nebulize. Today, I’m looking out at the dirty snow and gray skies and thinking about taking the camera out to see if I can find anything worth shooting. I must be feeling better. I’m restless.
Comments (18)
I enjoy your more frequent updates and am glad you are feeling better.
Smiling at Greyfox’s malady. I have something similar. I can handle all kinds of home repairs involving wood, nails, and glue, but the second an electrical cord is involved, I’m in trouble.
Let your fists an feet be your only weapons and you will never misplace them.
If I were to author a warrior philosophy, the above would be one ot its tenets.
I have odd effects on electrical equipment too, usually positive. I’m so glad that you are around more now and that you are feeling better.
Hope the day was great to be in. Both my husband and I mess with electronics energetically. We joke about being antennas.
So glad to hear you are feeling better- I was beginning to get really worried about you.
I, also, must be a kindred spirit to the “old fart” because I attract electrical fiascos!
D&D (OLD rules) led to Vampire: the Masquerade by White Wolf, which led (to my fav) Mage: the Ascension. We had SOOOO many characters (from vamps to werewolves and mages)!
How many emails?!? I think I’d have a heart attack and not have to worry about it anymore. lol
If you’re restless there’s a reason. GOOD!!
$100K wouldn’t be enough for me to do that race! Brrrrrrrrrrr!
Well K I am so glad you are healing
I’m glad you seem to be recovering… even if progress is slow.
It’s a bit dreary here… forecast is calling for rain. Hope you get to feeling all better soon.
Hugs, Tricia
do you play d20?
and i didn’t ask for stars, i told people to give me stars
@eadie -
That’s very different, then. Never mind.
@SuSu -
@eadie -
I neglected to answer your question. No, I don’t have enough imagination for RPGs.
@SuSu - hahaha, oic
Thanks for coming by–I look forward to reading more of your posts (and hope you continue to feel better!)
Ohhh, it’s still so cold and crappy. Isn’t it? Brrr! I am sick of the grey crap weather myself. We, however, barely got any snow here in NY this year. I cannot remember a Winter ever before where we here have had this little. I get so jealous when I hear people talk about Spring and 70 and 80 degree weather on other sites. I guess there in Alaska, by you, it’s even colder than it is here by me for even longer.
I DO so remember you……I remember that you used to always write great posts on the Grownups w/ content worth being featured blogring topics…..I remember a particular one…..I cannot remember the blogring topic…..but you had written about bikers…..and your experiences, and rape. It touched me so much. A couple of years back, it was?
And I remember greyfox, and I remember your cats! How are YOU?
ryc: Thank you!
And, yeah, well….I didn’t really think the penises would get the xanga team off and be something they’d condone, but you so did get the point I was trying to make.