Browsed by
Category: Unfiled

Hemispheric Warming

Hemispheric Warming

I love spring best. I’m no big fan of summer. This time of the year the days get hot, ninety degrees and up and dry, and my sinuses go crazy. The unit where I live, especially in the room where my computer sits, is unbearable in a heat wave. Even with the windows open and the fans on, it’s hell. Monday, it was hell. First time this year, and I’m not looking forward to more as spring turns into summer….

Read More Read More

Retiring For a Little Bit

Retiring For a Little Bit

I was late with last night’s post, and I’m crazy to be up checking e-mail and writing this post right now, but I’m having one of those migraine couple of days—had it all day yesterday, and still have it now. I meant to post something cutesy today, according to schedule, but I feel like vomiting—the pain is so bad. So I’ll save it for another post and for now bid you all a See You Later. Share this post:

How To Make Alien Barbecue

How To Make Alien Barbecue

The ingredients are the following: Aliens—lots of them, in the masthead and on holidays. Mondegreens—because with aliens, there is often a lot of miscommunication through mishearing, mistranslation, and Miss Malaprop-ism. Life Lessons—learned with the proper mangling of proverbs, idiomatic speech, and famous quotes, yet another by-product of alien mis-communication. Photography—that we may document our world, to show to the aliens. Fauxtography—that we may document their world and our interactions with the alien life form, since regularly photography has been yet…

Read More Read More

I Meant To Post This Earlier

I Meant To Post This Earlier

…but Happy Earth Day! I hope everyone worked on making their ecological footprint a lot smaller today. In my effort to save the world, I recycled my food and had leftover soup for lunch. From the experience, I was able to collect some tips and tricks to share with you all. First lesson of the day: when making bisque, puree the stuff first, then heat it up, instead of the other way around—and when you puree, don’t overfill the container…

Read More Read More

Thinking Blogger Award

Thinking Blogger Award

Annie Dean has tagged me. She honored me with a nomination for the Thinking Blogger Award and mentioned this post as being one that made her think. Okay, I’m hornswoggled that anyone would read blogs to think because frankly I do most of my blog reading either when I need to take a break from my work (i.e., from all that thinking I already do) or when I want to see what’s new with some of my favorite people online….

Read More Read More