We had a brief downpour on Monday. Not enough to do much more than wet the streets, but not enough to wash them down properly. And on my walk from the office to the bus station, I felt like I got a weird whiff of what it must have been like to live in the 16th century. Because that brief downpour? Made everything smell like piss ( Read more... )

It's kinda disappointing when I get in a walk in the a.m. and then realize I forgot to tuck my fitbit on my person before I left.

I don't know why not getting "credit" for a workout is such a big deal? I mean, I still got in my exercise. But not logging the steps I took kinda bums me out. =(

OK, I know this joke probably has VERY limited appeal. You kinda have to be of a certain age and from New England…. But I could not stop giggling when I saw this, so I had to share.

While surfing the spiffy new “similar images” feature of the Bavarian State Library I found this image.

[Are your donuts fresh?]

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Last Thursday morning I slept a little bit late. But when I got out of bed, I still had time to squeeze in my workout, so I did. But when I finished my walk, and went to plug in my FitBit to download my steps, I discovered that for the first time, I’d forgotten to clip it on my belt before I started walking. BUGGER ( Read more... )

Watching You Only Live Twice today, I couldn’t help noticing the lovely art that Ernst Stavros Blofeld had amassed in his underground lair (hidden inside a volcano).

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Anyone who has been reading me for a while knows that I have a bit of a thing about bathrooms. I’ve written about them in faire reports on more than one occasion and I wrote about the hand driers in the loo my first day at The Mushroom Farm. Yep, I will judge your faire or facility by the state of the bathrooms. Because when I gotta go, I want to ( Read more... )

Um, so apparently the Chinese bootlegs of The Avengers has a little trouble translating some of the dialog.

Make that a LOT of trouble.

Hawkeye - I need a distraction and an eyeball. I need bait and eyeliner.

[Yes, yes you do.]

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