You will simply not believe what an awesome job this screen cleaner (demo) will do. My screen is always getting spots and stuff on it, but I’m going to ask my husband David if we can get one of these pronto. via ***Dave

Hey, everybody I know! The Reduced Shakespeare Company is coming to our neck of the featureless stripmalled prairie! May 7 ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged) Prairie Center for the Arts Schaumburg, IL Box Office: 847-895-3600 That’s a Saturday night. Come on, come on, come on, we missed out on Spamalot!, let’s do this.

Sekrit messij to Kevin! NObody else read this means YOU 😡 (what? that’s how we used to talk back in the day. It gets even better)

I was reading a blog maintained by the husband of a friend and thought he was noting an upcoming “British Art-Rock Group Conference”. So naturally, I thought “well, people will study anything – why not a conference about Jethro Tull, Yes, Caravan and Renaissance?” Turns out it’s a “British ROCK-ART conference.” Man! Is there even such a thing as whole-word dyslexia? Because sometimes, I just wonder about that thing in my head that passes for a brain. So by way of apology there’s a link to David’s rock-art photos from Mesa Verde under the photo. I make no apologies for…

I have had 34 years’ worth of mutts and all but one of them is gone. Their ashes sit in nice little cans or pots on a bookshelf. Every once in a while, one of the containers catches my eye and I find myself saying, “That was a great dog,” even about the one who was crazy as an outhouse rat. The first one, who went to live with the mailman when I moved to Russia long ago, seemed to understand nothing but peeing and chewing up apartment quarter round, which he meticulously removed and diligently placed in piles. He…

You know things are going pear-shaped when there’s all kinds of stuff, nonsense, and news happening in my life, and I’m too damn busy to bother mentioning it here. I read this last week but didn’t mention it before: ginmar’s unit is slowly making its way homeward. She mentioned that they’d reached Kuwait on some unspecified date, and on another unspecified date they’ll head Stateside. This is a very good thing. Kevin Sites has added new posts and pictures documenting the tsunami and its aftermath, this time from Indonesia. In the meantime, what have I got to say for myself?…

Yet another personality test, except with Wackiness! Wackiness: 76/100 Rationality: 30/100 Constructiveness: 72/100 Leadership: 40/100 You are a WECF–Wacky Emotional Constructive Follower. This makes you a Candle burning at both ends. You work until you drop, and you play until you can stand to work again. You have so much enthusiasm that you can find it hard to control on your own, and you appreciate the guidance that channels your energy and lets you be your best. In a relationship, you require lots of attention and support. You often over-contribute and end up feeling depleted and cheated. You may benefit…

Hey, remember me? I used to blog here, back when I a) wasn’t spending vast amounts of time at work and b) wasn’t obsessed with getting the Holy Moly website / blog ready for primetime. Yeah, between work and blog, a lot of VERY late nights this past week, and not sleeping well besides. I haven’t quite pulled an all-nighter, but there was one night when I was up tinkering under the hood until 4am. Well, that’s gotta stop. At work yesterday I joked that I was accepting offerings of drugs, liquor, and chocolate and threatening to go to the…