The first thing I did after I got up this morning was step in cat vomit, strategically deposited right outside the bedroom door. Nice ( Read more... )

And you want to make a living at it ( Read more... )

I heard on NPR this morning that a hundred years ago, the Model T got 25 miles to the gallon ( Read more... )

This morning on the Georgia news portion of Morning Edition, there was a story about the legislature working out some law so that doctors who give lethal injections for the death penalty won’t “have problems” (legal, I presume) down the road. And it struck me--even leaving aside what I may think or feel about the death penalty per se--how ( Read more... )

Group sues to block budget law that never passed House ( Read more... )

Last month, celestialstudio and her husband, Olaf, were hired to do clowning and stilt walking in a big local church’s Christmas pageant. (Like me, you may be wondering exactly when the clowns and stilt walkers paid their respects to the baby Jesus--was that before or after the Three Wise Men?--but that interesting question will have to be resolved on another ( Read more... )

This morning I decided that I am going to start laughing at people more. This is not because I am a meanie but because I think it will be better for my blood pressure. When I am driving, I get easily irritated with other drivers’ flaunting of traffic laws, disregard for sensible safety considerations, and lack of common courtesy--so irritated that ( Read more... )

O. was an amazing slowpoke this morning, so we were already leaving late for school when we discovered that all the car doors were frozen shut! Luckily, growing up in upstate New York prepared me for this sort of thing, so I ran back inside and filled the tea kettle with hot water, which I then poured over the doors. O. was very impressed by the ( Read more... )

I spent three hours at the doctor’s office this morning. In addition to being prodded and poked (flu vaccine in left shoulder, pneumonia vaccine in right shoulder, blood drawn from left arm), having almost every inch of my anatomy examined, being interrogated (had to give my full medical history anew, since my doctor’s old practice didn’t let her ( Read more... )

cpolk posted her opinion that author bios tend to be either pretentious or silly. I commented back:

I love the bios, obviously written by the author, that pretend to quote an author interview, e.g., Millicent Mugwump says, “I just love writing about the kumquat in history, because that way I get to continue my own education in fruit trivia. I know a ( Read more... )