Grandma’s Surgery and My Writer’s Block
So today (Wednesday) is the day my grandmother has her hip replacement surgery. Which means that I’ll have gotten up at 4:30 a.m. in order to meet her at the hospital in Pasadena at 5:30, where we will...
View ArticleGrandma’s Hospital Stay
So I mentioned that my grandma is in the hospital. It looks like she’s going to stay there for at least a couple more days. Then she might go to a convalescent home to recover some more, or she might...
View ArticleYou Can’t Make This Up
It’s Wednesday night, I’m blogging this from my grandma’s hospital room. We’re currently waiting for the staff to bring a wheelchair so we can wheel her down to my car and I can drive her to a new...
View ArticlePepper’s Log, Stardate Yesterday
11:00 p.m. Marina shows up and we hang out for a little bit. Then I get to go on a WALK! to her car, which is cool. 11:30 p.m. Hang out in a nursing home parking lot, guard the car. 11:45 p.m. Hang...
View ArticleThe Time I Saw My Mom After 5 Years of Not Speaking
This is the most recent update to the continuing drama surrounding my Grandma’s hip replacement, her near fatal visit to The Californian, and her boyfriend’s arrest for elder abuse. So Friday I said...
View ArticleAnd That’s How We Got A Dog
The day after my meeting with mom was the day Grandma’s boyfriend got out of jail. She had been telling everybody in the family how it was over with him, she was tired of hit shit, etc. When he called...
View ArticleAnd That’s How We Ungot a Dog
Last weekend has been so dramatic and so filled with ballsackery that I’m actually reading my own Facebook to remind me of the timeline. Hold on, I have to get everything going the right direction. All...
View ArticleGuess Who’s Back?
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you already know that we are once again, the owners of a much contested Rat Terrier named Pepper. I didn’t wake up this morning with the intention of getting...
View ArticleSex Poems for Ben
We’ll get to the sex in a moment, but first there’s some more drama breaking out about my grandma, and what’s going to happen to her. Or, more specifically, what’s going to happen to her money. Years...
View ArticleYou Are Now Reading the Blog of Someone Who Has Been on Television. I Know. I...
As you probably know from yesterday’s blog, at 10 pm last night Peter Paras and I were on Open Source with Leon Krauze to talk about video games. A clip of the segment is online, which you can click...
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