Dec 27, 2022
I’ll bet I’m not the only person needing an emergency plumber today, after the last few days of crazy temperatures. A pipe burst in my pantry, must have been spraying for a good while be...
Dec 7, 2022
This holiday season seems fraught with perils, both family and from the outer world. We don’t know what to do about meeting up, in my family, yet. It is a delicate and unnerving situation, deal...
Sept 20, 2022
Rules1. Never order from an Amazon seller without checking their ratings AND profile. (I normally do this, but...)2. Remember about Amazon customer service chat and the phrase “A-Z Guarantee Cla...
Sept 5, 2022
Just trying to get health care is so stressful it’ll give you more symptoms. This weekend my youngest sister has been in the hospital — she’s better now, and will be going home so...
Aug 25, 2022
Those dinosaur tracks in the Texas riverbed, exposed by the drought and disappearing Paluxy River? My BIL the retired paleontologist identifies those as an Acrocanthosaurus. (He wrote a book on these....
Aug 3, 2022
On Sunday I met up with my sisters and had brunch at a beautiful gardening place with cafe, and got to talk for hours with them. Afterwards, my sister’s husband mentioned that back in the early...
July 26, 2022
For my oldest sister’s sake, who had cancer surgery earlier in the year, I have tried to notice what is written about Covid. Apparently we’re a little bit better off than we were awhile ...
July 23, 2022
I have needed something to laugh at, recently, and popular comedies are often not funny to me at all. So the Prime Video streaming of Dark Shadows sounded just the thing. I never saw this decades ago ...
July 14, 2022
Seven out of the last 8 rain/thunderstorms have passed without raining, and the neighborhood looks like a drought region. Since nobody on my street really waters their lawn, we all have dying patches ...
June 30, 2022
You never know… I’ve been starving for a domain sale, and just discovered that one, a man was trying to buy from us, is the name of a cryptocurrency that’s now trending somewhere e...
June 24, 2022
It little profits that an idle judge, By this supreme hearth, among these unfit cohorts,Match’d with a seditious wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a hapless race,That work, and weep, and b...
May 20, 2022
*If you don't like reading about electricity, you can skip or skim all this!Just had my first electrical outage of the season, which always helps remind me to prepare for the next ones. But this one w...
May 4, 2022
Let’s see… my great-grandmother died of complications from an illegal abortion around the year 1900. It even said this was the cause of death, on her death certificate. She was married bu...
Apr 24, 2022
Remember not to stand on chairs to reach things, and absolutely never climb to reach something when you’re not wearing good tread footwear, and the chair is slippery wood. Chairs aren’t ...
Apr 6, 2022
Yesterday I spent hours trying to renew a single domain name that is held in a Spanish registry. The .es website, Dominios.es, translates into English but this doesn’t help. It still doesnâ€...