Ever since I quit having cancer, my medical hobby is strep. I get it 2-3 times a year. I usually have strep at the hobbyist level - I go into my doctor with a sore throat and basically nothing else, and she doesn't believe me particularly, but the rapid strep test comes back positive and I go home with antibiotics. This time, though, I started ( Read more... )

So here's the deal: I can't be cynical about Star Wars. I know a lot of people who are over it, or done with it, and feel like it's unoriginal - I hear you all, and I just can't care.

[Spoilers Follow]I didn't see the original trilogy at all until I was in high school, and I didn't actually get to watch the movies until I was in college. I cannot tell you how ( Read more... )

Do I want a temp-to-perm job with an organization that lost its CFO to a work-related criminal inquiry six months ago, and also uses accounting software I'm not familiar with?

Please, universe and everyone in it, please ( Read more... )

Can anyone recommend me a good realtor for the Boston area?

I wrote this.

http://the-toast.net/2015/05/28/the-one-percent/

Please oh please like, share or tweet.

Can anyone suggest a good algebra book for second graders? DL! is bored to tears with his classwork, and has loved the algebra he's run across. I'd like to give him more of it.

If anyone can make it to my house, I will host a dramatic reading of the local NWS forecasts. Their growing despair begs for theatrical treatment. Perhaps they could be staged as an opera.

School is closed tomorrow. It was also closed today. And for three days last week.

In between storms, the only thing I managed to stock up on was wine. I tried, but the grocery store was still mostly out of things.

I anticipate Boston schools will pre-emptively announce a Tuesday closure sometime tonight.