The hidden-er costs of not having nationalized health care.

I just bought this phone earpiece specifically to tape my conversations with my insurer. Because insurers are not to be trusted. WATCH THEM EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY OF EVERY DOOMED TIMELINE

I wish there existed a smartphone that would just tape conversations with anyone not in my address book without needing to resort to this sort of nonsense.

We keep baby gates on the dining room doors to keep the dogs out.

I just sent them into the yard and shut the door on them. Thirty seconds later, cats began to stream steadily over the dining room gates. One is now grooming my hair.

2013

The year I was depressed and brought home several small friendly stray dogs. Could there be possibly be a connection? Who knows.

(There is a small friendly stray dog on our screened porch right now, on her second bowl of food.)