Last night around 5 my smoke alarm started chirping. You know, the noise it makes when it thinks it's running out of batteries? Yeah, that. Every 30 seconds or so..."chirp." "chirp." "chirp." It's annoying and it was driving the dog crazy ( Read more... )

Today I was on the 6-hour, which turned out to be more like a 4-hour. We had to turn back right before we reached Freemantle. 6 footers and winds from the southeast, just about the worst forecast you can get. We could feel the start of a roll as we rounded Entrance Point into the Narrows, and had to duck into Sawmill to serve the meal, as we were ( Read more... )

We just got back from Anchorage. Good trip. Yesterday we got to town, dropped Summer off at the kennel, and got to our car appointment about 10 minutes late. Then we waited for Mel to pick us up (as the courtesy van guy wouldn't be back for another 45 minutes) and we went to JC Penney's so I could get fitted for a bra. The lady went zip, zop with ( Read more... )

Here there be snark.

The basic story is that a woman left her 19-year-old waitress (who happened to be pregnant) an almost-thousand-dollar tip. Someone posted it in customers_suck as a "score one for the good guys!" situation. Most people respond with something like "Wow, that was very generous ( Read more... )

Today, neither Keels nor I subbed, because we were attending Direct Instruction Math training. It is hard to explain what DI is, exactly, so I will spare you, save for saying that it's usually used with the learning disabled, and has multiple levels from (roughly) 1st grade through 6th grade ( Read more... )