My room-mates father has been ill for a while and is now in assisted living or long-term care, so we adopted his 3 cats. They mostly get along with our original cat, though there has been some growling and spitting in the hour that precedes feeding time. All but one of them are BIG cats. I am guessing that all four of them add up to about 55 ( Read more... )

I had food poisoning most of the week. Nausea, dizziness all the regular symptoms, but so much lingering pain that I don't recall from prior cases. Slept on the couch most of the day all week, but had to sleep in odd positions not to put any pressure on stomach and abdomen, thereby causing other pains in neck and back and arms. Happily, I was ( Read more... )

1. Due to track work, the Riverline trains were running every half hour today. According to both the NJ transit website and customer service that's all the info they had. Couldn't tell me every half hour starting WHEN? Then when I got to the train station, the announcement said "Sunday Schedule" which is indeed every half hour, but at 14 after ( Read more... )

I logged my hours watching "the Jestsons" as a child, and things have not turned out as I expected. I want a flying car and a neurotic robot housemaid ( Read more... )

We have one of those can openers that makes smooth edges that you can't cut yourself on. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it ( Read more... )

I read something very disturbing in "Smithsonian" today. In Germany, the corner butcher shop, complete with artisanal sausages, is being decimated by supermarkets, mass-produced hi-tech sausage, and changes in lifestyle. Things change, no surprise ( Read more... )

Went to Thanksgiving at the sister-in-laws house. I had prepped Mom with her marching orders ahead of time. "Do what you're told, sit down and shut the heck up" Sounds harsh but last year she had much drama with the S-I-L who did not respond well to my Mother's insistence that Mom could "just organize these dishes for you before I sit down". ( Read more... )

Sounds easy, doesn't it. Well, not so much. Apparently when I lived in Delaware County, Pa, I was in a paradise of pizza and became truly spoiled. Friends would drive an hour just to have pizza from the parlor up the street from my brother's house. And there were plenty of nearby places that had pizza nearly as delicious ( Read more... )

I've been seeing TV commercials that are coming to within a hairsbreadth of claiming that Nutella is a health food. They make it sound like it's going to persuade stubborn children to eat their vegetables ( Read more... )

Phone service was restored to our abode today. A total of 10.5 days after I called in the problem. It wasn't just us, but apparently several blocks on our street. The burning hatred will probably die down to lingering resentment and long-standing mistrust. Verizon thanks us for our patience and promises to discount our bill this month.