Susan’s been out of the hospital for over a week now, and things are slowly settling back down to some semblance of a normal routine. She spent six bedridden days in the transplant recovery ward at UCSF waiting for her digestive tract to be stable enough to take medicines orally. Somewhere in the middle of [...] » Read more

We spent most of Thursday waiting in uncertainty for Susan’s pancreas transplant surgery. The bad weather here (rain storm) delayed organ transport, and they still needed to verify the organs once they arrived. Then there was some issue about separating the organs. Finally, Susan was wheeled in for her surgery at 11 pm last night. [...] » Read more

Those of you who read my better half’s blog may know that for the last few months, she’s been on the transplant list for a new pancreas. She got THE CALL today.. we dropped everything, hightailed it over to UCSF, waited around for over three hours, and then found out the donor’s family had changed [...] » Read more

In 2006, I: sold my house in Seattle and moved in with Susan in Oakland; went to my first geek convention; went on a fantastic vacation in Turkey; was sick for a month; joined an orchestra as a cellist, then watched it slowly collapse; finally found people to play chamber music with, and learned two entire piano trios; didn’t climb a single [...] » Read more

This is Kaylee, our dog we adopted two weeks ago from Tuffie’s Animal Rescue. Everyone who looks at her sees a different breed, but the best guess is that she’s a cross between a German Shorthair Pointer (where she gets her ears and the ticking on her chest) and a Chesapeake Bay Retriever (where [...] » Read more

After four months of searching, I was getting worried about buying a Prius in time for the September 30 deadline for full federal tax credit (it drops to 50% after that and phases out in the following quarter). Toyota Oakland and Alameda were content to offer us the wrong color or [...] » Read more

The most common things that make the muscle in your eyelid twitch are fatigue, stress, and caffeine. Once spasms begin, they may continue off and on for a few days. Then, they disappear. Most people experience this type of eyelid twitch on occasion and find it very annoying. In most cases, you won’t even notice [...] » Read more

Yesterday morning we were woken up by a cop. Turned out at around 6 or 7 am someone decided to break into my car and grab the stereo. The people across the street saw this happening and called the cops, but by the time they showed up the thief had gone. I’m [...] » Read more

The house sold, to the third offer. After the inspection, the buyers lowered their offer by $5k, plus asked for window replacement, which would have easily been upwards of a grand. This was moderately annoying since the main contested issue was exterior paint; while I wouldn’t debate the deterioration, I would certainly venture to [...] » Read more

What’s happened over the last month: I drove from Seattle to California again with a car filled to the brim with stuff. Mom was wedged in between house plants and was ordered to keep me awake. We left the night before I planned, because we were sick of sleeping on the floor in [...] » Read more