Gamma came to the breakfast table and complained of a stomach ache. “Of course you have a stomach ache, you’re not wearing slippers,” we said. “Go put on slippers.” We have cold tile floors in parts of the house. She ignored that and curled up on the bench at the table. Alpha gave her a pillow and covered her with an afghan. We continued with our breakfast.

After a couple minutes Gamma leapt up, moving faster than she usually does unless the phone is ringing, and ran into the bathroom, and vomited.

She made it to the toilet, yay! There was holding of hair, cleanup help, much comforting. The realization that no, she’s not faking. But mostly Yay, she made it. You feel like giving them a gold coin when that happens.

It’s cold and rainy. Or a little warmer and rainy. Today it’s cold and rainy. Yesterday it was a little warmer and rainy. It was dark, I was commuting. It was dark in the morning, it was dark in the evening driving home. Hey if I had a guitar and a black hat I could turn this into a blues song. It was dark and rainy and the traffic it was bad. Sugar beets, you know, potatoes, tractors. Anyway the traffic came to an abrupt stop. I finally noticed and came to an even more abrupt stop. The guy driving the gigantic SUV on my fucking rear bumper didn’t notice until way too late. Eventually he slammed on his brakes and swerved into the oncoming lane (luckily there was no oncoming traffic, since it was all stuck behind a different tractor going the other way) and finally came to a stop about even with me. I wanted to jump out and give him a hug.

Victory is everything. If you think you’re there for therapy and counseling, you’ve already lost, you wussy.

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I caught a conservative leprechaun last night after work.

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I found a program named trickler.exe on my home PC last night and did a google search and found out it’s spyware and downloaded an anti-spyware program and deleted it and a bunch of related files. The anti-spyware program is probably spying on me now too, so I suppose I’ll delete that eventually. I’m rather sick of internet advertising right now, pop-ups and pop-unders and those fucking windows that take over your entire PC and you have to hit control+alt+delete and turn them off that way; I am nostalgic for the good old-fashioned blinking banner ads that nearly trigger gran mal seizures. Beats me what a person could do about this, though.

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This was an interesting article.

In other news, FAA considers passenger ban.

[Yes, I lifted both links from Daypop.]

Last-minute Halloween costume suggestion:
One of these + one of these.

HTH.