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  1. Not a Well Man

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical I've been fighting an irritable bowel attack for over a week. Thought I was about it over last night. Then I ate some sunflower seeds before bed. Pretty sick all night, and taki ...

    - 2020/07/06 - 9:37am - 6 comments

  2. Better

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical For some reason, the blog entry I made yesterday hasn't shown. Oh, well. Naped much of Saturday, went to bed early and slept in a bit on Sunday. Felt a lot better. Took it easy ...

    - 2020/07/10 - 5:44am - 7 comments

  3. Illness in the Family

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Update: https://stickmaker.dreamwidth.org/640143.html ...

    - 2021/11/28 - 9:27pm - 2 comments

  4. Uncertain Future

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical My Mother took a turn for the worse Tuesday. We're not sure, but she may have had a stroke. We were just lucky the nurse from Care Navigators was there for her weekly visit and ...

    - 2022/01/21 - 10:22am - 1 comment

  5. Another Mother Update

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Mother is home, in her room, in a hospital-type bed, courtesy of Hospice/Care Navigators. She has two caregivers (arranged by my sister, with help from her youngest daughter) for rou ...

    - 2022/01/26 - 11:21pm

  6. Sad News

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical We knew this was coming; my Mother was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer back in November. However she didn't want us to tell anyone until after she was gone. There were mult ...

    - 2022/02/19 - 11:37pm - 11 comments

  7. Readjustment

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical We buried my mother Wednesday, beside her parents in the family plot in Crab Orchard, Kentucky. That has a nice location on a hill. (Her father was on the cemetery board of directors ...

    - 2022/02/21 - 10:23pm - 2 comments

  8. Cats! Who Needs 'Em?!

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical See: https://stickmaker.dreamwidth.org/642077.html for a recent report on household events. ...

    - 2022/03/09 - 3:18pm - 21 comments

  9. Sick Season

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical I've been under the weather the past two or three days. I thought the cough I had was due to the damp weather combined with the dust raised by the work I'm having done in t ...

    - 2022/12/13 - 11:54pm

  10. Unconventional but Effective

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Had a strange dream last night, perhaps inspired by Svengoolie showing the Claude Rains version of_ The Invisible Man_ last week. ...

    - 2023/02/08 - 12:26pm - 3 comments

  11. Out of Contact for a While

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical My old cable modem died of a voltage spike which occurred during last week's wind storm. It has been replaced. I'm back online! ...

    - 2023/03/14 - 10:07pm - 30 comments

  12. I Had Three Cats

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical Note that this describes the death of a pet. ...

    - 2023/09/25 - 12:57pm - 9 comments

  13. Busy Times

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical I upgraded my iMac to Sonora about two weeks ago. I immediately had several problems, some of which turned out to not be fixable. I had to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the previ ...

    - 2023/10/26 - 4:51pm - 1 comment

  14. It's a Conspiracy to Rob Me of Sleep

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical So much for sleeping in this morning. I was awakened about a quarter after 7 (yes, AM) by a series of muffled bangs, and the Shark AI repeatedly telling me it was charging (there ...

    - 2023/11/13 - 7:57am - 1 comment

  15. What, Again?!

    Author:  Stickmaker Stickmaker's blog Blog About:  Autobiographical About forty minutes after I went to bed last night, the power went off again. This time just the once. I wasn't sound asleep, and the emergency light in the hall coming on woke ...

    - 2023/11/19 - 2:16pm - 5 comments