Just dropping in with a few little updates...
My wife's play came in 2nd in regionals - the winner, which went on to nationals, was some bizarre abstract Czech play. Her play won "audience favorite", which says something about having theater professors as judges... she personally won the award for achievement in costuming, too, and there were three best acting awards in her cast.
Dr. Tranny's patient passed away yesterday morning - something snapped in the van (a 2000 Windstar) on the way back from Wal-Mart, and it won't move. It runs, just no connection in the transmission anymore. So we're down to one small car and the kindness of friends until we can find a replacement vehicle that we can't afford anyway... towed it back to the house (a friend with a pickup and a tow rope, thank goodness), where it awaits unloading.
Kinda sad, it was my first real guinea pig. I did more on this van than any other car I've owned for a long time - first time I changed struts, ball joints, a fuel pump, more electrical work than I can remember... come to think of it, it never was a very good car... OK, not sad anymore.
And I submitted my first set of lesson outlines for the online math company. With all the van crap I had to pull an all-nighter to finish it - I'm gettin' too old for this...
Here's hoping it's both coherent, and what they were looking for...