One of the few shows we watch every week is Battle Bots. We enjoy the work these engineers put into designing their “robots” (they are not actually autonomous, but rather remote-controlled vehicles with weapons of various sorts). Bill enjoys it as an engineer, and I enjoy it from my please of utter ignorance. We enjoy…
I was once in a production of Fiddler on the Roof that was just the most amazing cluster-fuck you could imagine. I was playing Yente (for the second time). I was joining the production late because they had lost their Yente (how careless of them) and needed a new one. It was only the second…
My mother’s motto was You can write your name in the dust, just don’t put the date. I am my mother’s child. Recently I undertook the Herculean task of cleaning my personal Augean Stable – the area under my computer stand. We won’t discuss when was the last time I cleaned under there, besides my…
The State of Washington has joined the ranks of places where it is no longer legal to discriminate against fat people. I wish I could say it is because, like the State of Michigan, the City/County of San Francisco, and a few other places, they passed a law that made it illegal. They didn’t. However,…
My poor left leg has suffered so much. I don’t know why it seemed to always be the target of some disaster or another. Happily, by the time I hit my 30s the trauma abated, but before that … When we moved to Bangor Township, I was able to walk to school – one day,…
Leo is our brown tabby. We have had him since he was a kitten and we adopted him from Town Cats. Today, I wonder if they want him back. Like many cats, he has a fascination with places he is not allowed to go. Like the garage. He has made it a game of trying…
At the tippy top of the State of Nevada is the gambling outpost of Jackpot, Nevada. It is one of the cheeks in the butt end of nowhere. I could have lived my life happily, never hearing of Jackpot, except I was touring with the long-running (decades) Vegas style revue, Bottom’s Up. One nice thing…
