Have you ever looked at your Netflix list and just said "Meh ( Read more... )

Okay, so this might be the first installment. As is my bent, I'm completely freaked out by the amount of stuff to do and the miniscule amount of time to get it done, so I'm doing useful things like reading the Q&A for The Chicago Manual of Style, out of idle curiosity. I stumbled across the following (actual exchange, I swear ( Read more... )

The New Yorker making me smile despite myself, courtesy of Moonrat.

Yes, sometimes I can't help it. I just launched my Google Desktop, and I could have sworn that one of the headlines that came up in the feed was "French tennis player banned for being found dead." And I thought "Wow. That seems unnecessarily harsh." Turns out he was banned for betting and was found dead. Which is slightly less harsh. Probably a ( Read more... )

Saturday night, during our marathon phone conversation, the boy said something about strutting and fretting our hour upon the stage. I said "look at you with your Shakespeare references!" And he said, "I thought that was Emerson." I said that I was pretty sure it was Shakespeare, but I couldn't swear that it wasn't Emerson and let it go. At least, ( Read more... )

There's a lot to be happy about, today. Progress just about everywhere you look. I should finish up at work and go home and make progress in my garden, too! Have you noticed what a nice day it is?

I'll shut up now.

So last week, my brother called me to see if I was planning on going to Pittsburgh to see my nephew graduate. Which I totally hadn't even considered. In fairness, my nephew is barely going to graduate high school, because despite being really gifted, he's his father's son and has some problems with authority, so he doesn't believe in turning in his ( Read more... )

It's swine flu humor of a type I think that derbiser will particularly appreciate. Editorial Ass has been mining a vein of such humor. In case such things trouble you or your employer, a variant of the f- word appears in the image embedded in her blog post: Leave a comment

Resisting urge to snark about boss ( Read more... )

Today, I'm grateful for feeling a little better. And for my humidifier, which aids in the feeling a little bit better. And the homemade chicken/vegetable/barley soup I made last night for dinner, that also helps with the feeling better. And for the Zyrtec that derbiser gave me which is working at least as well as my waves of generic DayQuil, ( Read more... )