The bookstore where bunny_hugger sometimes work is moving. Not far; actually, just across the hall to the space which had been Bed, Bath, and Beyond. They announced the move last year, and construction in the new space finally reached the point that they ... had to delay closing for the transfer of stock and shelves and all that. Just by a couple weeks. ( Read more... )

So before this continues you have to promise: you won't share a word of this with my father, all right? Because it would break his heart and you don't want to do that for a kind old man.

The sink. When last left, I'd broken the hot water shutoff valve and a professional plumber came in to replace it. And judged that he couldn't get the old ( Read more... )

Our mouse has made a more sophisticated nest, with the help of a bundle of chew sticks that give her construction materials.

Meanwhile on my humor blog, I've made another week of mostly small bits of nonsense. Here's a sample:

• MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 25
• Statistics 2024: I'll Try And Make It Through This Anyway
• Statistics ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago in the pet store I saw something we never see there: a mouse among the pocket pets. They often have rats, and gerbils, and hamsters, and some of the bigger rodents like chinchillas and guinea pigs. But a plain old mouse? Never, which is what made the cage labelled as having (I thought) a male white mouse of estimated one year ( Read more... )

With eight wins of the fourteen rounds I was reasonably safely in the playoffs at RLM's tournament. bunny_hugger? That I have avoided addressing it directly is your answer. With seven wins she was just below the cutoff line, doomed to even lower points and the ignominy of hanging around while I kept on playing. One more win and she'd have been in playoffs ( Read more... )

The thing I dreaded in that RLM tournament. I was drawn up, first, against MSS, perennial plausible candidate for champion of the open state tournament. And if that weren't bad enough, we were to play Paragon.

Paragon is an early-solid-state game from about 1979. It's got a lot going for it. Great theme, playfield art of guys with dragon ( Read more... )

I apologize to dear bunny_hugger but realized way too close to publication that I forgot to write anything today so that explains why I had some unexpected blocks of free time. Here's two days' worth of Dollywood pictures to fill things up, though.

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After nearly a week of licking her wounds from the Michigan Women's State Pinball Tournament, bunny_hugger was thinking ... what might she do? To get a secure position --- and a good seed --- for the women's tournament next year, certainly. But also to feel better about herself as a player?

The obvious answer? Since the end of pandemic closures RLM ( Read more... )

After MEW and the Traverse City players left the player roster at the Michigan Women's State Pinball Championship settled down. I don't believe anyone else left, simplifying the problem of keeping track of who was where in the tournament, and I was better able to keep up with the dwindling number of matches and tracking who was where. The Ypsi ( Read more... )

So, as said Monday, bunny_hugger lost in the first round of playoffs. Of course, half of all the competitors did. The most surprising loss was MEW, who'd gone into the tournament top-seeded --- and who was the first woman since bunny_hugger to make it to the open state championship series --- and whom bunny_hugger had spent much of the drive into Bay City telling me was the ( Read more... )