I've got a friend (off LJ) who is having a hard time with her hubby. Suffice to say, he cheated on her, told her in December, layoffs happened in his job last month, so he's doing more work for no more pay and must do it or risk losing his job, too, and he's hardly home and she's feeling like she can't trust him and geeze she feels like without him she's nothing (she has three GORGEOUS children who are acting up without him there like he should) and I'm sure he's stressing over the work but since he blew it, she is stressing that she can't just trust him again.

Anyway. She pulled the "kill myself" and I got a little mad at her. I don't really think she would do it, and she promised someone else she wouldn't but she has the thoughts and so I stressed kids to her. And that things would get better one way or another. She just has to take it one day at at time.

Anyway. It upset ME and now I'm stressed and on edge.

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IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE FOLKS who have read Provocateur> and Sacred and Profane by our own Alex - splix and are not yet aware of the OMG VID! that sue_chose_this made for that story - OMG you must go see: http://sue-chose-this.livejournal.com/146768.html

holy cow. Wow.

I am now so totally wanting to reread and am so glad I own the zine...which, of course, I can't find...it's here somewhere, dammit! Nancy, you don't have my zine, do you? **ponders** Maybe it's under the bed. I'll look tomorrow. Or maybe I packed it into my hope chest. It didn't GO anywhere, unless I loaned it and with that inscription I can't imagine having done so...hmph!!

Now that I can't lay hands on it, I want it reallllly badly.

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Katie got her trip to the doctor. She is now also on the ABs and the cough meds (so THAT's why the doc got us the big bottle, lol!) and her temp went to normal after one dose of Tylenol, so I'm thinking she may well make it to school tomorrow. No piano, though, I've already cancelled that. Last thing I want to do is expose a four-month-old baby and his mother to this crud. Karl still had a bit of a temp at bedtime but it was much lower. We'll see about tomorrow. He got homework today and did that so he's keeping up, I hope. And Jayne is such a bright ball of energy, she wears me out.

So, because of the doc trip and the pick up of scrips, I missed two different meetings. And I had to finish the colleens. I roped in one more helper and finally got all 370 out. There's got to be a way to mail-merge the info - I just can't remember how to do it, but damn, that would make things easier the next time.

At any rate, alll the colleens have been assigned, although I do have to shake my head at some people. "How do I still post if I'm using this log in?" Um...log OUT of that one and back into your real one? And then I get "it says invalid log in." In two cases, it surely was a dud registration, but the rest have all been resolved by clearing the cookies. Go figure.

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Third year in a row of our Portland Raptor Cam, detailing the lives of two redtailed hawks and the TWO eggs in their nest! The nest is on a fire escape on a building and the fella who has that office space loves being that close. Every year a camera gets set up and we watch. It's so cool!

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And, I think I am just going to have to wipe and rebuild my poor laptop. Now the problem is, it can't seem to keep the connection with my router.

We have a closed router - we don't broadcast the SSID signal, so no one at all can even see it unless we turn it on. But my laptop has lost the ability to hold it. We can open the SSID again, I can re-enter the code AGAIN, and it will connect...sort of. Actually, the little icon down in the tray? says I'm not connected to anything, but I get around quickly and fine. But it doesn't hold. After a few minutes, it will drop the connection and pick up The _Beast again. And his i nternet connection is horribly slow. But Roy thinks maybe he has an N router and that it's overpowering our G. I don't know. But Roy's ready to do the wipe-and-load. Problem is, I gotta work job #2 and I need better speed than his service, plus I don't WANT to be on his connection (although I am right now.) I guess I could do it on the desktop while we take the time it's going to take to redo Firedancer here.

Unless mrshamill or jedi_diplomat have a solution? *sigh*

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And, finally --- JAYNE'S HAIR!!!

I got the detangler comb.

I got the Potion #9 leave-in conditioner.

Except that she ran herself a bath and got in and laid down and swished her hair, I think we would have avoided tangles altogether. However, if last time's tangles were a dollar, tonight's were a dime. I used the comb while rinsing out the shampoo (applied only to the top of the head! and that is when we had to deal with the only tangles in her length and they came out very easily.) I used the comb to dispense conditioner. I used the comb while rinsing OUT the conditioner. I used the comb to dispense the leave in conditioner, and I used the floursack towel to carefully squeeze her hair dry rather than towel it.

OMG.

IT WORKED.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Jayne asked, "Can we bring all this to Florida?" Hell, yes, baby. Oh, yes.