Michigan is in the news! And it’s good news – sort of. Michigan is the only state in the United States that has head lice that have not mutated and become resistant to over-the-counter treatments! Um. Whoo-hoo? Seems that head lice in a lot of states have become resistant to pyrethroids, the active ingredient in…
I open up Yahoo this morning and there’s this picture of Putin in a mini-sub that is (supposedly) headed down to the bottom of the Black Sea. Okay. Don’t know why that is so exciting but fine. Whatever. But I have one question – to the right of Putin’s head – is that a roll…
Could someone please have a talk with your deity of choice about the weather here in San Jose? It’s just too flipping hot. I HATE hot weather. I’m not a huge fan of cold weather, but if you are cold, you can put something more on. When it’s hot, you can only take so much…
I keep wanting to blog. I keep getting ready to blog. And then …. I don’t. I don’t know why. I have stuff to blog about. I just can’t get my fingers to cooperate and type it out. So it’s not like writer’s block, but my fingers are writing blocking me. So I’m trying to…
The saga of my broken bed continues. Yesterday, I went to take the old bed frame apart and prepare for 2 weeks of snoozing on the floor and trying to get my fat old lady butt up from that level each morning. Not a pleasant image, I know. So I’m looking at this boo-boo bed…
Okay – actually I’m rough on the bed. As in our bed frame broke this morning. (Happily, no cats were injured in the collapse.) Fuck. I feel like I’m teetering on the edge of a bout of depression and this is really not what I needed in my life, you know. Well, time to…
You probably know that California is in the midst of a terrible drought and Texas is pretty much under water. What to do? Well, remember that pipeline the oil companies wanted to put across the country to carry oil from Canada all the way down to Texas (because what could possible go wrong with that)?…
Here is the great mystery: How can a program that needs updating as much as Adobe Flash continue to perform so badly? WTF, y’all? Just fucking FIX IT!!!!!!!!!! I am sooooooo tired of my FaceBook games doing a lock and crash because of Flash Shockwave. And if this program is soooooo…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … okay, it was just the best of times. A dear friend from Los Angeles was up in my area and called to get together. As if this wasn’t fun enough, he was accompanied by his dear friend from Australia! Someone I…
Cousin Alice and this fat old lady! My birthday happened. It was a good day. I was so touched by all the greetings and good wishes by all of my friends and family. At my (advanced) age, birthdays are not really about receiving gifts. But my friends Storm and Kristopher got me a Kindle book…
