• Home Improvement

    Going Postal

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    When it absolutely, positively has to get there… sooner or later. Maybe. Buzz Machine: The Death of snail mail and Sunday papers I was actually waiting for some mail to arrive, and finally received it today. My eye doctor had promised to mail my latest eye prescription card 2 weeks ago today, but the office manager forgot to put it in the mail until a few days ago. My husband David was waiting for stuff, too, and had checked the mailbox 3 times today. Third time’s the charm; the letter carrier must have just gone by. I rarely get mail…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Before

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    The "guest room" is currently the room where we dump travel stuff and home improvement junk left over from the floor job on the smaller room. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Before By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Jul ’09, 11.17am CDT PST

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Required Reading for Sarah Palin’s Impending Leisure Time

    July 23, 2009 - By 

    Charlie Pierce’s “Idiot America.”Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com Mockery has been an important part of informed citizenry ever since the concept of citizenry was invented. Satire is a weapon of the disenfranchised and the un-empowered. One of the most distressing developments of recent times is that people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are regularly referred to as “satirists,” when, in fact, they are mere bullies on behalf of the established powers. I don’t argue that mockery makes us smarter, but it can make us better citizens. I hope Sarah…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Required Reading for Sarah Palin’s Impending Leisure Time

    July 23, 2009 - By 

    Charlie Pierce’s “Idiot America.”Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com Mockery has been an important part of informed citizenry ever since the concept of citizenry was invented. Satire is a weapon of the disenfranchised and the un-empowered. One of the most distressing developments of recent times is that people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are regularly referred to as “satirists,” when, in fact, they are mere bullies on behalf of the established powers. I don’t argue that mockery makes us smarter, but it can make us better citizens. I hope Sarah…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Hot Off The Presses - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Wait, How Do You Grow By Excluding People Again?

    July 19, 2009 - By 

    As a liberal Episcopalian, I cheered and was cheered by the passage of several inclusive, progressive resolutions at the recently concluded convention. We can go forward now, I think. #ecgc Pared-Down Episcopal Church Is Looking to Grow Through ‘Inclusivity’ – NYTimes.com Not everybody agrees with this view, or is happy about the changes – even some in my own state, in the two more conservative dioceses downstate, away from the Chicago urban/suburban area. They are genuinely grieved, and they believe that the church is in the process of ruining itself. I don’t agree; I think we are finally ready to…

  • Home Improvement

    Fan C

    July 18, 2009 - By 

    We’re planning on using some upcoming vacation time to do some home improvement projects… yes, it’s The Floor Project From Hell: Next Generation, and theoretically The Floor Project From Hell: Back To Bed. Part of that project will be adding 2 ceiling fans in the two “guest” bedrooms (with the help of a real electrician) and so today we went around looking at fans. There’s a place in the neighborhood that actually specializes in fans, so we went there first. Interesting experience: it’s a small stripmall store front, absolutely stuff full of stacks and stacks of boxed ceiling fans. There…