http://blogblivion.com Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:47:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I remembered our eight anniversary was coming. Then yesterday, eight days later, I remembered again, surprised I had let it pass without recalling or noting it on that day. Made me think. I also thought it was the first time I'd not publicly acknowledged the date, but it appears the last ... http://blogblivion.com/2012/01/11/eight/ The spouse's Chevy S-10 has had the service engine light on for months. One of those silly emissions-related things that cost a fortune to fix and seem designed more to support the repair industry artificially than to be necessary to us proles. At least, that's what my nephew's device for ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/10/19/inspection-day-miracle/ As is well known, Henry has allergies to bananas, dairy, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts, and when he was very young was sensitive to salicylates, azo dyes, and some aspect of screen printed ink on many of my T-shirts. He is gradually easing on the egg and milk fronts, ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/06/02/more-allergies/ What's the appropriate gift for a 13th? Luck, perhaps? It's been a big 13 years for my oldest nephew and his wife. Congratulations! http://blogblivion.com/2011/05/24/happy-anniversary-3/ To my cool mother-in-law, Peggy. http://blogblivion.com/2011/05/12/happy-birthday-283/ So yesterday was Henry's annula allergy appointment, which turned out a bit unexpected, as the doctor decided not to retest him this year. He'd like to wait until next year, at which point he'll be to the point of maybe growing out of the ones that are commonly grown ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/04/15/allergy-visit/ Another blog I remember fondly is Drumwaster's Rants, which somewhere along the line - not all that long ago - turned into a domain parking page. I never did learn Drumwaster's real name, but he was part of the overlapping blog circles I was in or touched upon after ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/04/07/drumwasters-rants/ This kind of thing makes a lot of sense and I've been seeing more and more of it. Probably some of it also queued with old links I never blogged... Anyway, MS is of particular interest, given that my sister has it, a friend has it, a former, albeit lousy, ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/24/tummy-flora-and-ms/ A big one in the list of bloggers I miss is MedicMom, AKA Sonia, from Alabama. Not sure I should even say that much about her here, given her concerns that led her to abandon her blog. Which is apparently not to be confused with a newer one ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/23/medicmom/ Again on the topic of old blogs, I also miss Ian Hamet. His ianhamet.com, which featured a blog named Banana Oil in my early days of blogging, seems to belong to someone else. He had a temporary blog, Upbeat Cynicism, that was last active in 2009. Perhaps he will ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/22/ian-hamet/ I didn't go this time, scheduling it instead so Deb could have a chance. Just as well, given how sick I am. It was pretty similar - Sadie is great and all - but Deb also had a long talk with the principal about Sadie and the siblings ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/21/parent-teacher-conference/ I guess there will be a lot of these memorial blog posts, depending how quickly I go through the blogroll at AV. And this is sort of active, still... there, anyway, it's just that Acidman died. If you never visited or want to revisit Gut Rumbles, there are ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/21/gut-rumbles/ I'm going through the old blogroll at AV, grabbing stuff to link elsewhere and purging what no longer exists. This could take a while. This also provides fodder for one of the things I'd decided Blogblivion would have as a topic when I mostly stopped posting at it: ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/20/absinthe-cookies/ Valerie has had the same nightmare about our house being on fire and us having to escape it two nights in a row, with no apparent provocation or prior similar nightmares. She seemed a little feverish this AM, so maybe that didn't help. If nothing else, may be time for ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/15/censorious-dreams/ To Venemous Kate, who started out at almost the same time I did. A lot of us did, from mid-2002 through mid-2003 or so. Mine was February 25th. When Kate exploded onto the scene, I assumed she'd been long established, she was that polished, prolific, and savvy at generating ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/10/happy-8th-blogiversary/ Recently I got an ear infection. Not shocking, given my childhood propensity for them and the fact that I've been almost continuously sick since Sadie started kindergarten in September, culminating with and resuming after a quick bout of flu and about two days of feeling better than I can remember ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/10/drugs-and-change/ Just checked. Didn't win Megamillions. Don't often do it, but bought one a few days ago on a whim when I saw the jackpot sign in Hannaford. $127 million would solve everything! And yes, I know, but even after taxes, and even being careful and all ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/09/still-poor/ I remember playing Scrabble for Juniors with my mother at a fairly young age, and regular Scrabble sometime not much later. I could read before I even started school, so young I don't remember ever not knowing how. I have to wonder what it might have been like ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/03/08/scrabble/ Except it still seems a little weird having Atlas Shrugged updated to be set in modern times, and the characters don't look much like my mental images. Reardon, to whom I most relate, comes closest. I'm overdue for a reread, but with the film pending, I considered it recently and ... http://blogblivion.com/2011/02/11/looking-forward-to-this/ http://blogblivion.com/2011/01/23/i-am-tjic/