Eau de Humanity!

Burning Down the House

Some good news on the family front first - my sister, her partner, the three kidlets, and my mother seem to be okay the last time I spoke to them earlier on Tuesday. Sister and her family live where those fires are that have been going on in eastern Florida so it got pretty scary there for a while since the flames got awfully close and were seen from their house. My mother had been up there visiting to attend my niece's school play (she was Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"! Go her!) so mom was trapped up there. They even evacuated for the night. I'll try them today (Wednesday) to see how things are then.

Ick family news - Apparently, last Thursday my mother called me to tell me that my father called me and I, after seeing his name on my caller ID box, hung up on him. Er...mom? He didn't call me! First off, the phone didn't ring, his call does not appear on the caller ID box, and I wouldn't have immediately hang up on him, besides, my mother's name is on their phone's account and not his. According to mom, he's not only pissed off for signing an affidavit getting him to do something but now he's more pissed that I hung up on him. Reminder here, dear readers, he's dealing with dementia and Alzheimer's. As it turned out, he seems to have called my fax number and got the fax machine, which clicked off the call when it didn't get a signal back from the calling fax machine. Apparently, he can't realize that there's "Lee's fax number" right next to the number he called on the card nor can he figure out that the loud annoying high-pitched noise coming over the handset is NOT me. And no, I haven't called him back yet. No plans for it. I've NO need to have a possible obscenity-laced guilt trip monologue screamed at me.

On a more pleasant note - Joel Derfner's new book Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever is now officially on sale.

Still Here, Still Queer! Got Posted About it!

Just a quick-o post to let whatever people that cruise by know I'm still alive and so is this blog. Just been busy elsewhere commenting on others' blogs, battling the idiotic FundaThumpers on YouTube, dealing with class, dealing with interviews for an intership, and just not energetic enough for blogging myself.

Anyway, I've finally tidied up my blog list there on the right. Getting rid of blogs no longer being used, updating url's of the ones who moved, and getting rid of one that decided that I was no longer a friend (Dunno what I did or didn't do so fuck 'em! His loss!).

The situation with my parents is still weird. My father continues to sink slowly into Alzheimer's-related dementia and gets meaner and nastier as time goes on. My sister and I no longer deal with him with is fine with me although my sister still deals with the lawyer and his guardian in legal matters as necessary. Yes, we decided to have guardianship placed on him. He was doing things with his and my mother's stuff that was detremental to their well-being and was trying to control my mother by taking money out of their joint account, her passport, accusing her of having an affair, etc. It was best. He even had 18 guns in their apartment and we were scared that he'd use one on my mother. The guns are gone now and he's prevented from buying another one. My mother has also moved out of the apartment as of last November after 59 years of marriage and now has a place of her own not too far away from him. It's in one of those upscale retirement places and she's having a ball! I'm so glad she sounds so happy! She deserves it. She calls it like being at camp so I nicknamed the place "Camp Medicare".

Anyway, I need to mosey! I'll blog more soon! I'm also a part of group blog, please visit! It's: http://foreverfabulous.blogspot.com/

How To Behave On An Internet Forum

YES! I'm still alive and NO this blog ain't dead! Just been having fun and/or busy elsewhere. I figured I'd stick this funny video on for your enjoyment since it gave me an excuse to post quickly so here ya go:

"Wizard of Oz" Alternate Ending (MadTV)

Too friggin' funny!

Meme!

Baked Earth!

Band Name:Hiram Worchester

Album Title:A Gift of Cooperation

I've seen this meme around a couple of times but I'm finally doing it after spotting it on Adam's blog (besides I need to show that I haven't abandoned the blog!)

Anyway, here's the instructions:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2.http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Combine steps one, two, and three and voila!