I will no longer make fun of my dogs for twitching and whining in their sleep. It could be worse.

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Actual U.S. unemployment is at around 17% if you count people who have run out of unemployment and those who are way underemployed:  Doing marginal part-time work that can't pay all their bills.  That's approaching 1 out of every 5 people.  More men are unemployed than women ( Read more... )

Morning dental floss that is waffle flavored.

Handerpants: Tighty whities for your hands

Captain Corndog vs. Baron Von Broccoli bendable action figures

Crazy Cat Lady Board Game

God I love this catalog.  And it is so appropriate that this store is in Seattle because, really, the Pacific Northwest  should be home to inflatable fruitcakes.

For a couple years now I have been indifferent to most TV shows.   I'm not fond of sitcoms and many of the popular shows like "Lost" and "CSI" and "NCIS" don't do it for me at all.  Other than catching some "Law and Order SUV" episodes now and then, mostly to look at Olivia, I've been uninterested in network TV shows.

However, this year there are ( Read more... )

 
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Druids are filled with a dramatic sense of wonder, viewing the world through rose-colored glasses as they watch everything come to life, from flora and fauna to mundane objects. They see the good in almost everyone and everything, yet struggle with the idea of ethical perfection (or ( Read more... )

We live in a very small house, by American standards.  It was built in the early 1930s.  It has two small bedrooms upstairs.   It has one bathroom, a living room, a dining room, and a kitchen downstairs.  The basement is half-finished so there are two more small rooms down there.  The walls are lathe, which means they are sort of plaster over wire ( Read more... )

So I am taking a bath tonight and I go to shave under my arms and one armpit has some hair and the other does not ( Read more... )

In an earlier post I warned y'all not to shop at CSN stores because of their return policies.  Well I still think their general return policy needs some tweaking, but once I got someone on the phone they were cool.   I'm getting a refund.  No more paying for a stove that would not heat right out of the box ( Read more... )

Voles, you know, breed in odd population waves -- sometimes you gots just a few voles and sometimes you gots lots of voles.  This year we gotta LOT of voles.  You can see their funny trails through the grass in our side yard and, every once in awhile,, one falls into our egress window well and gets stuck.  Therefore, every day I do vole patrol.  I  ( Read more... )

Imagine that you go to Walmart or Target or JC Penney's and you buy, say, a blender.  You get it home and plug it in:  It doesn't work.  You read the manual, check everything, and it still does not work correctly.  What do you do?  Well you pack it up in its little box and return it, right?  No problem.  Stores that sell you something that doesn't ( Read more... )