This show is about my dad’s recent stroke, and its impact on our family. It’s not a sad show, but it is an honest one. I hope to be back next week with more usual Shelly’s Podcast fare.

• Birthday greetings from lots and lots of podcast listeners
• Dinner at Mandola’s
• Project Terror

Link-O-Rama: Badger Cast, Desperate Husbands, For Whatever Reason, Mandola’s Italian Market, Tastes Like Burning, App Store Pundit, Redboy Podcast, Life of Spaguy’s Wife, Barely Podcasting

• Anticipating the red door: paint matching, conversing about doorknobs, getting me to turn loose of a dollar
• Fall volunteering: blood marketing, at the local campaign HQ, making my own job, I learn about salesmanship, meeting Lucy Baines Johnson, the egomaniacs and the condescenders, Frank watches the polls and builds a sign, listening to returns, the alternative to e-nite parties
• Cocktail talk
• Project Terror
• Birthday greetings for Frank?
• Feedback City

Link-O-Rama: Election day slideshow, Atomic Suburbia, ginger curry recipe, App Store Pundit, Life of Spaguy’s Wife, AmdyCast