BU's Foul Mood Thread

[Buster's Uncle]

Heavy sigh.  I'm back, and we're cutting my Janumet -that's got the Metformin in it- to once a day, not getting me off it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yesterday was Bustermas, the 22nd, IIRC.  She's on her way back from a brief internship with a big animal veterinarian in Pennsylvania in the next few days.  -Word is, she was having a ball; no word on whether she had her arm up a cow's bottom.

I'll keep y'all posted with what dribs and drabs of information I eventually get...

[Buster's Uncle]

23rd Bustermas - she's 22, but there was a Year Zero b-day when she was born, 2003.


I'm sure our regulars have questions about how the rest of my clan and habitat are doing, so:

Mylochka lost a lot of weight, too, before I did.  At 63, she looks a lot older with the weight off, but there's still no beating not being so fat anymore.  Her broken brain problems have gotten so much better since she was active here that she sadly agrees that in her current state, she wouldn't have needed to retire.  She's recently resumed Barbie modding, though I've not been kept in the loop on how much or what into or how good.  I'm after her to do some GOT Danerys, late seasons, w/ the high-necked winter dresses and all the braids.  -The character arc may have ended badly on the show, but those looks can't be beat.-  If there's any internet market for custom Barbies at all these days, those ought to sell like mad.

Momma will turn 85 in about two weeks, and still looks/acts like she's in her 60s.  Mylochka got her into a Smart Doll knockoff -they're Barbie-like proportions, anime-influenced faces, and tall as American Girls- a while back, and that's transitioned into Mom's into Barbie now for the last couple years.  The doll line-up on the big whole-wall bookshelf in the living room is very different now, and I need to do another camera tour of dolls on display.  She's seriously having room problems.  -However, I do love when I go upstairs and she's been playing with her Barbies, making dresses, changing outfits, and posing them - there's a lot more play action than there ever was with the 6' Madame Alexander dolls she always favored.  They're baby-doll shaped and not made for much posing.  Barbie is, and shaped as a fashion doll who wears more-or-less realistic women's clothes well.  I love when Momma is happy, of course, and she's happy arting w/ sewing and otherwise playing.

Nothing much to report on the cats, all of whom are well.  Boy Liver will be three come August, and only this spring seems to -finally- have settled down out of adolescence.  He's still too bitey and clawy for anyone's good, but not as bad, and more affectionate.

Hurricane Hellene was a big adventure here, but none of that flooding and destroyed roads up in the mountains you'll have seen on the news.  It took quite a while to clean up afterwards, but none of the backyard structures y'all know so well from the Kat Frend project were harmed.  The playhouse roof still needs fixing -bad- but the holly tree bush in front is prospering, and I've sorta kept up on its maintenance this year.  I need to Kat Frend tour w/ camera, too.

-That is all that occurs to me to report.  The last big outbreak of arting I did -aside from recent holly bush maintenance- was right here doing four new Themes -and some upgrades to plain CivII- two years ago amidst a lot of forum crashes.  No mask-or-related action lately.

As you were...

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh - and one last item on Hellene?  bvanevery was almost certainly still in Asheville -it was warm enough here that I spent the entire morning -sunup to noon- on the carport barefoot watching the trees fall w/ Mom- and therefore, probably asleep in his car -which was probably in a mall parking lot in a flood plain- when the storm set in hours before dawn, sooner than the weather reports had us expecting.

Where he parks his car to sleep is the only low-confidence speculation in all of that, and given that Brandon hasn't been by logged in in a week-and-a-half -in fact, it would be in character for him to have found the forum back before even I did- I'm genuinely worried that he AT LEAST lost his car and has suffered a severe lifestyle setback.  He chaps my butt way harder than anyone here ever but Dale, but God, still sorta a friend -also like Dale- and I hope he's alive, y'know?

[Buster's Uncle]

I need to mention there was just anRL incident that has adrenalin-poisoned me so badly to I physically can't type to talk about.  This hand-shaking is unprecedented.  I want to not be around for working through this.