Category Archives: nothing special

I took down yesterday’s post because it was, well, whiny.  Yes, I can whine with the best of them, but I prefer not to do it in public where it can annoy others. Of course, the Internet is forever, so … Continue reading →

Please feel free to ignore this post: I am merely venting, and what good is venting unless you vent to someone? I have “invisible” disabilities.  One of them is fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). Fibromyalgia was believed by many doctors to not … Continue reading →

Against a perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.Terry Pratchett, from Thief of Time This morning, as I was driving the Red-Headed Menace and Railfan to school, we were all singing along to Billy Joel’s “You May Be Right.”  The … Continue reading →

I was looking at this post again.  Steven C. Holtzman powerfully said in four five words that which took me twenty later on in the post. It strikes me how much harder I find it to write a strong four … Continue reading →

Just an update on my continuing quest for world domination trivia greatness:  I have a three week winning streak going at The Loft, and won two weeks before I started my streak.*  That’s four wins in six weeks. Admittedly, The … Continue reading →

The Red-Headed Menace disclosed his real motivation the other day for learning chemistry: he wants to synthesize human pheromones. We really should have just sent him to a monastery when we had the chance.

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of … Continue reading →

I was reading a book about blogging recently.  (I gave it back to the library and I don’t remember the title, which shows how much of an impression it made on me.)  One of the points it made was that … Continue reading →

Just a note to say I’m still here.  Those of you who know me well may be surprised a the lack of a post concerning the Troy Davis execution, but I’m working on it.  It’s taking a while because I … Continue reading →

… comes via the District of Columbia.  I would have never thought of using license plates for government sponsored protest against another government but I guess they really wanted to make a statement.

Words I never would have thought I would hear in actual conversation: “Then I used a moles to cups conversion….” The Red-Headed Menace, discussing his determination of the chemical makeup of Bisquick.  Yesterday’s quote of the day: “I’ve figured out … Continue reading →

From Contagion: “Blogging isn’t journalism, it’s graffiti with punctuation.”

Me, after a frustrating morning dealing with the Red-Headed Menace: “Throttling children is wrong.”The Resident Shrink: “There are species that eat their young….”

The Musee d’Orsay is currently holding an exhibition called “Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde.” Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler…. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy…. How much would a plane ticket to Paris be? Think I could get … Continue reading →

To state the obvious, on this day ten years ago, the world changed. There are many stories of that day of terror and loss, and heroism and hope.  None of them are mine.  I experienced the day the same as … Continue reading →