June 25, 2020
Got a very unusual card from my BIL's brother, whose sense of humor is like a New Yorker cartoon -- subtle, sometimes Martian. Anyway, the picture is of an old CRT computer with keyboard, and the capt...
June 21, 2020
Last week I got together with 3 of my 4 sisters for a birthday, and it was wonderful because of how long it's been. And I heard from my long-lost youngest sister out in Utah too. The world is differen...
June 17, 2020
It should be remembered that people are still dying. My sister, in hospital records, told me that in Allegheny County (greater Pittsburgh) this week, 100 people died of Covid-19. That’s a terrible n...
June 16, 2020
The bears around here stay deep inside the woods. It's much cooler and nicer there, I guess. But when one strays, a major public service announcement happens, warning everyone.This is supposed to be h...
May 27, 2020
I haven't gotten my ballot yet, and it has to be received by the election office by Tuesday, and postmarks don't count. It was with difficulty that I was finally able to discover whether my county was...
May 14, 2020
There’s a very trashy corner down the road I'd like to go out and pick up trash from, but due to traffic should only be navigated on foot very early and I haven't solved the sleep problem to wake up...
May 13, 2020
It’s after nine, so I hereby dub this the cheap champagne hour. The last three days call out for it, and that’s what I happen to have, so… It was yesterday that one sister decided to drop by wit...
Apr 30, 2020
I feel like a sheep, sometimes, because anything I get interested in doing or making was long ago discovered by a million idiots online. Aprons, for instance. They’re actually a huge designer item n...
Apr 30, 2020
Ran across the song The Liar Tweets Tonight, a retweet in Jim Carrey's feed: Twitter.com/JimCarrey and I found myself listening to it 3 times in a row. Made me feel better, all the people singing it a...
Apr 24, 2020
Actually I've been quite entertained lately with images online, revisiting my favorites like the ones from the twitterfeed Poorly Drawn Cats --and she seems to have branched out into Poorly Drawn Dogs...
Apr 24, 2020
Hearing Trump’s ideas on what the doctors should try next on Covid — aiming UV-C lights at one’s body, and injecting disinfectant into people — I was amused and horrified at the same time. Heâ...
Apr 17, 2020
A good quality of family is to forget quickly: Forget the words that happened on the phone with the ultra-right-wing sister, so you can stay civil and have a nice talk about other things entirely. It ...
Apr 10, 2020
My friend Mike is sending me a pulse oximeter so I can check my blood oxidation; and he sent me to Wyze.com to find a thermometer, since I don’t have one. There are some wonderful health gadgets aro...
Mar 30, 2020
Wash hand style in covid-19 time! from r/funny...
Mar 27, 2020
I’d better get back to my writing group and start constructively critiquing fiction, because lately I’m aiming my writer focus on domain bloggers -- who are the very worst writers of all. Their po...
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