The State of Toast
Here’s a quick update on the toaster. After being back-ordered for a bit, it finally arrived. It made our aging toaster look …
Read more...Rec’ing on…2006 WNBA Superlatives
With the regular season winding down, the time has come to determine who will be the various "…of the Year"s. This isn’t …
Read more...The Insanity of Double Grilling
People doing their own thing is right and proper, but when that people is my mom, and what she does is clearly …
Read more...Musing on…The Plus Side of a Broken Toe
I broke one of my toes (again) a few days ago. A bag holding ten pounds of frozen chile fell a couple …
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Chile Toes
Chile is a great goodness…except when it’s frozen and a block of it attacks.
Read more...Pocket Memory
Some days are the sort you wish you could wrap up and put in your pocket, ready for those moments when you could use some reassurance that life is good. I’m not saying that today was a perfect day, but it was an enjoyable one.
Read more...The Insincerity of Local Government
My city has a mayor who has touted several agendas in the name of the public interest when the actual implementation is …
Read more...I Really Do
Last night, after hours of discussing budgets and whatnot with my parents, my mom and I took a break and just talked …
Read more...America, What the #$*! Do We Know?
It’s amazing how fearful Americans are of breasts. Slap an image of a baby and a breast doing exactly what nature intended, and suddenly it’s 9/11 all over again.
Read more...Legal Daze
Today was lawyer day. With my parents getting older, and my dad in declining health, it was time to revisit the lawyer …
Read more...Work Worries Waned
So. The job. Basically it was just training. Me practicing on the chromakey software and at the airbrush tattoo station. As airbrushing …
Read more...Rec’ing on…Emerald Pair
In the WNBA we’ve had scores of superstar players. There have been some amazing combinations of players who have brought their teams …
Read more...Job Jitters
Well this is just weird. I’m all nervous about going to my first day at the new job tomorrow. And that’s just …
Read more...Musing on…Yawn, Another Middle East Crisis
I’ve received some emails asking me why I haven’t posted anything about the current Middle East crisis. Here’s the simple answer: I …
Read more...Tedium Break
My life follows a fairly predictable pattern: practice the tedium of living day-to-day, and then have a burst of newness. It seems …
Read more...Seedlessness
OK, that’s it. Never again. The watermelon I brought home from the market turned out to be seedless (aren’t they supposed to …
Read more...Musing on…The Mind’s Mish-Mash
Warning: the following entry has no point at all. It’s just stuff that’s crossing my mind. Rosario Dawson — She always makes …
Read more...U-turn and Then They’re Gone
Wow. I don’t usually see traffic accidents as they happen. Today, coming from getting some dinner from the store, I got a …
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