BigCloset may go up and down today while Bob and I fight these turkeys off. Please be patient and we should have a few necks wrung soon.

- Erin

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!

What's going on? Back when every post required editing by me before posting, I sometimes had 20 or 30 stories in the queue, eight or ten new ones every week. Now that posted stories appear immediately, posting has slowed down to two or three a week.

As if I haven't had enough of it in my life, I'm moving again. :)

Griffen, the cartoonist for whom I write Morty, and I, plus Griff's partner Danny, will be taking an apartment together in September. It's only a few miles away so I can continue to keep an eye on my Mom, which is good, and I'll be spending almost half my time here at Mom's. But I've discovered I really can't do much creative stuff with Mom in the same house. <sigh> Never could, I've always done my writing in coffee shops when I live with Mom.

Yup, it's the only holiday in August, my birthday. :) I don't know how much I'm going to be online today but I hope all of you have a happy, too.

- Erin (Joyce Melton)

Since I spend about half an hour to one hour a day deleting spam comments by unregistered users, I'm going to suspend commenting privileges for unregistered user for the duration of my trip. Sorry about that, I hope to be able to restore such privileges as soon as I return on or about July 6.

Hi everybody, I'm attending Gamex in LA this weekend at the Airport Westin Hotel. Look for the fat lady in the open gaming room running the Mutants and Masterminds game if you're in the area. :)

Hugs,

When I moved in with my mom after Jeanne died last October, I had to find homes for my cats. My friend Don took in Bebekat and another friend, Shelley, took in Fudge. Rocky, our resident psycho-kitty, went to the pound along with fifty dollars to help him find a new home.

Griff and I have been having weekly meetings about cartooning lately. These have been a major help to me in coming out of what now appears to have been a several year long depression. I still miss Jeanne but I'm beginning to take an interest in doing the things I like again. Griff and my other local friends, as well as all of you online here at BC and elsewhere on the net are part of the reason.

I finished the move but I won't have hi-speed internet till Thursday. After that, things should slowly get back to normal. Thanks to everyone for their patience.

- Erin

I'm going to be partly offline for about a week starting an hour or two from now. Bob Arnold will be watching for any problems with the server and he has my number so he can contact me. I'll look in from time to time on friends computers. Wish me luck.

And probably right on through Thanksgiving weekend. I have to be out by November 30 and there is still a lot to do. I'm having a big garage sale this weekend and people are coming over to help out.

...for a couple of days, getting ready to move up there. I should be back late Thursday night, if there are problems with the servers, Bob Arnold has access to try to fix things. :)

- Erin

I'm feeling better today, tired and sad but I can see the fading of pain already.

I called the Neptune Society on Saturday and they will make all the arrangements, including a boat for going out into the channel and scattering the ashes. The price is very reasonable, less than $2000, including $600 for the boat with 20 people in the memorial party.

I've asked the doctors to make sure Jeanne is comfortable and not in pain but not to take any heroic measures to extend her life. They are not to discontinue anything they are doing right now, fluids and food and breathing support and pain medications, but no kidney dialysis, no CPR or cardiac electro thereapy.