I was taking a water break while cycling this weekend, and I heard these other cyclists coming up behind me:

Man: -suicidal!
Woman: It's not suicidal, because it doesn't have a concept of whether it wants to live or die.
Me: Squirrels, right?
Woman: *waves in acknowledgement as they go past*"Suicidal squirrels" is how HalfshellHusband and I refer ( Read more... )

What a weekend. I wound up in a 6-person writeoff after last week's Idol poll, so I spent Friday and a lot of Saturday writing an entry for that. Humor! Always fun when I can get it to happen. Please take a look and vote for me if you can. I need all the votes I can get!

I was on a roll Friday. I poked some people at work (my day off) to get a ( Read more... )

another trip to the paint store and to Floor & Decor. We now have about 10 or 11 paint samples now. Trying to get the right shade of yellow for the sunroom and coordinating shades of blue wall and tile are responsible for most of them. I still have moments where I feel as if this is never going to be done. So many decisions, and once something is ( Read more... )

Why can't you just behave? Nerdbros do not get a pass on harassment and coercion!

And now I'm grumpy for the selfish reason that I loved "Dead Boy Detectives" and was really looking forward to season 2! Ugh ( Read more... )

So, I broke a toe again last week. :( The second in this rental house, and once again by wish-boning the toes on my right foot ( Read more... )

We're near the end of a long heat wave in Sacramento (I hope). It might dip below 100o tomorrow, for the first time in 9 days. This reminds me of my first summer here, where there were 10 straight days of heat at 105+ in a row. That was when I learned that you can get cabin fever in the summertime in this climate. :O

My last day of biking outside ( Read more... )

Last year's New Year's Eve was probably the worst ever-our house had burned, we were staying in a hotel, and I'd spent hours in the house's toxic environment trying to remove everything valuable and portable before thieves got the chance. I was tired and disoriented, and I don't know if I was even aware it was New Year's Eve until it got late and ( Read more... )

to be looking for something like a mesh, gnat-resistant face-mask for bicycling, and discovering that some people are making and/or regularly wearing them as a means of "getting around" COVID mask mandates. Ughhh. We will never be free of this virus or the behavioral restrictions around it until people stop spreading it, and it really seems as if ( Read more... )

Boy, late-night television is its own weirdness. Especially the medical ads! \o?

And speaking of weirdness, HalfshellHusband was in the shower yesterday with his Spotify music cranked up, and his playlist included (God help me) the Bob Dylan version of 'Tambourine Man.' Because apparently, the world is comming to an end! /o ( Read more... )

We had a few days of reprieve before the next Doom Cycle begins. And by 'reprieve,' I mean 92-96o days instead of 99o-plus.

I got out for a nice ride last Thursday-it was only 80o by the time I finished. Right now, I'm lucky if that's the starting temperature! Friday was a rest day after 9 days of biking in a row, because I was just too tired, ( Read more... )