I don’t moderate my blog comments as often as I should, and unless a comment is from someone I’ve approved once before, a comment will hang in moderation purgatory until I get to it. Well … when I checked the comments tonight prior to writing a little something, I found around 750 comments awaiting moderation. My jaw dropped. Most of it is spam, of course—probably even all of them. But when I clicked over to the comment moderation page, the…
I’m a sucker for Item-of-the-Month type clubs. As a teenager, I was enrolled in one of those Columbia House deals, where they entice you to buy a handful of popular album CDs at less than a dollar each, then they send you some random CD every month, which you get and pay for if you don’t return the monthly offer right away. It’s a pretty good deal if you remember to return the offer right away. Not so good if…
We had a bit of a heat wave over the weekend, and our place isn’t very good at keeping cool. When the air is still, the heat settles throughout the place, even downstairs where it should be cooler, but not by much. I’m the sort of person with perennially cold hands and feet—or at the very least they’re sensitive to cold and get cold easily—but this weekend they remained the hottest parts of my body and could not get cool….
Our remote control died today. It was a sudden death—quick, painless, and completely unexpected. Some bodily fluid seeped out, and I irrationally accused H.E. of drowning the poor thing; though on second thought, it was probably just sweat, some by-product of the remote control’s death throes. H.E. tried to contact the E.R., but because mankind discriminates against technology, those who specialize in remote surgery do not work on Sundays, least of all when it is also Father’s Day and regardless…
Tim Russert passed today. H.E. is a really big fan of his and has never failed to watch Meet the Press every week, and I always know it’s Sunday if I hear that show’s theme song playing on TV and see H.E. sitting with the remote and marveling at the guests that Russert managed to get. We missed the first announcement of this bit of news because I had a little bit of heart trouble this morning and had to…