So I didn't manage to post anything Thursday or Friday, and then Saturday - it's always harder for me to do anything actively online on weekends. I can just about manage passively reading everything on my various lists but that's pretty much it. Anyway it was my turn to do the grocery shopping this weekend, and Himself took the prince over to ( Read more... )

Four years ago, my co-workers and I all went out to the food trucks and got tacos for lunch in what we assumed was the first day of a world in which there would, as foretold, be taco trucks on every corner. Of course by about 10pm that had all gone to shit. And here we are today.

I did have some work to do today, which I did. I also straightened up ( Read more... )

So Sunday I took half an Ativan at bedtime, as I said. Slept like a rock. Monday night I pondered whether I should do so again, and Himself said he thought I should - not that I should take it every night, but as I was still feeling the dad's-hospice-anniversary tension, it wouldn't hurt to ensure another night of good sleep. And I took the Ativan ( Read more... )

I am a professional with several postgraduate degrees but I have literally just spent work time providing the kind of telephone tech support I normally reserve for my mom. (Now what menus do you see across the top of your screen? Okay, good, click on that.)

Like many of us, I've been suffering from rage-and-despair fatigue for the past year and a half, and I have extremely limited confidence that voting (which I early-did on Sunday) will help worth a damn in the midterms or even, maybe, in 2020; it's great to reflect that the moral arc of history is long and bends toward justice, but I want to improve ( Read more... )

... so I’ll have to come over here to say this:

OH MY GOD turn the pages until you find figure T and that’s what page figure T is on.

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I'll tell you what I told Facebook ( Read more... )

For a while now I've been thinking I wish I had a recliner in the family room. Den. TV area of my house. Whatever it is. The furniture we have is comfy enough, but I wanted something where I could have my feet up and my head supported and not prevent someone else from sitting comfortably (as Himself gets crowded off the couch when I lie down to get ( Read more... )

Look, if I search for "crib" and specify "-mattress" and filter to "furniture>cribs," why are the first two items a goddamn bed rail and a fitted sheet?!