Category Archives: nothing special

Mandy Patinkin says his favorite drug is Viagra. [Predictably, and perhaps sadly, the comments have been overrun by Princess Bride references.  Okay, so he was Inigo Montoya.  Give it a rest, already.]

[Written last night by hand. And yes, I do put footnotes in my handwritten drafts.  I live for footnotes — or haven’t you noticed? I’m weird that way.] Sad to say, there are not a lot of things which will … Continue reading →

Yes, I changed the design. Hope you like it.  In case you didn’t notice, the background is the picture I posted in “Understanding Vincent.”

There is a new grocery store in my area.  It is a Fresh & Easy, part of a chain that, if memory serves, began in Britain.  I love this place. It is small, about only 2/3 the size of the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I met with my job coach. She is a wonderful woman, full of warmth and encouragement.  We talked about my edited resume and my hobbies, and I told her about the Paris Powerpoint project (which at this point qualifies … Continue reading →

Today’s playlist consists of standards sung by Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and more contemporary singers such as Diana Krall, Josh Groban, and Michael Bublè.* I am turning into my parents, clearly. (I also slipped in … Continue reading →

How do you keep the music playing?How do you make it last?How do keep the song from fading too fast?“How Do You Keep The Music Playing?”  Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman The Rocket Scientist and I were married in … Continue reading →

I used to never put titles on my posts.  It seemed too much bother.  However, I have been trying to do better about this, because it seems to make the pages easier to read. There is a post I am … Continue reading →

Today’s musical playlist is comedy.  I’ve been listening to enough depressing ballads lately, I decided to refrain from inflicting them on everyone else here.  I am sitting in the dining/living room, the Red-Headed Menace is on the sofa, and the … Continue reading →

Listening to Weird Al’s “One More Minute” (the best breakup song ever, and the reason Weird Al deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), I had to explain to the Red-Headed Menace what a Rolodex was. … Continue reading →

The problem with going to sleep listening to the “Dance of the Hours” segment of Fantasia is that you wake up with your brain stuck on Allan Sherman’s “Hello Muddah Hello Faddah.”  “And the head coach wants no sissies, so … Continue reading →

A little over a year ago, I took a class on the newest iteration of MS Office. During class, I made an eight-slide presentation that had thirty-six animations in it. Just imagine what I can do with fifty to sixty … Continue reading →

The guy who just sat down next to me in Starbucks brought his computer.  Not a laptop, but a full-size iMac G5 with a tower and everything.  Guess he’s planning to be here quite a while. Which reminds me, I … Continue reading →

Tuesday, during a discussion about the State of the Union address on Fox News,  Stephen Moore, usually a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, said “This idea of all the members, Republicans and Democrats sitting next to each other, that’s … Continue reading →

The nonprofit I volunteer at is planning their Spring Gala, which is our major fundraiser for the year.  This year’s theme is “April In Paris.” At our planning meeting, someone suggested that it would be cool to have movies about … Continue reading →