A few updates: Despite many protestations against being labeled a vegetarian, the tiny wannabe omnivore has stopped lovingly discussing her love of meat so much. She will only eat the occasional bite of chicken (“I tasted it”) and will not even allow beef near her plate (a platter of incoming meatloaf was met with waving […]
I got a new haircut about a week ago — very short. You would think, however, that I had sprouted horns the way the people I know have been looking at me. People who love it say so right away, others just don’t know what to make of it and I’ll tell you, some people […]
Steven was in the kid’s room telling her a bedtime story last night based on Cinderella. The wicked stepmother sees a mouse and screams, and he’s screaming – loudly – his best girly scream, which gets the kid screaming with him in delight. There’s enough intermittent, delirious primal screaming in the story to make me […]
Now that it’s getting dark a bit later, I’ve been slogging down dinner like a dog and running out the door for a bike ride as the sun goes down (while Steven gives me that greatest of gifts, time to move my ass and be alone). No need for sunblock, white gloves to protect my […]
I just spoke to my father, who is devoting some serious study time toward passing the driving exam — after a Father’s Day picnic he wants to be dropped right back home so he can study some more. Obviously, quite a bit of his freedom depends on his passing. Nonetheless, he’s managed to find enough […]
We’ve been using the term “garage sale” as a verb for months now (“We’re going to ‘garage sale’ that”), but putting out all your old useless crap for the world to see is just unseemly. And yet, when the notion of putting any proceeds toward a small flat screen to replace the Stripper TV entered […]
Yesterday started like this: Steven arrives home at 1:30 am after a lengthy evening spent waiting for various servers to stop bombing left and right. We both lapse into a coma and I spring from the bed at around 7 when I hear the beeping of street machinery, and by that I don’t mean The […]
A week of L.A. pump prices: Last Wednesday: $4.05Last Saturday: $4.17This Monday: $4.25 (a bargain, it was $4.29 everywhere else)Today: $4.35 This is for the cheap stuff.
Normally, viewing the innards of one’s computer is as rare and well-anticipated as seeing one’s own innards. It usually means something has gone terribly wrong (or, one is at the airport, apparently). Well, it turned out Steven’s hunch was correct: the hard drive was dying. I am grateful the nearly 5-year-old iBook G4 (ancient by […]
Drawerspace In A Cluttered Mind 