• Clan: McTiVo - Home Improvement

    Clean Sweep

    Yeah, I like this show…I’ve been watching it for a while now. And slowly, gradually and imperceptibly, we’ve gradually gotten most of the house cleared out, cleaned up, and organized. The worst areas are now the hidden-from-public view areas: The Big Lair O’ Computers in the basement, and the garage (which isn’t that bad, just needs more shelving and a good cleaning out after the last frost, when I get the rain barrels set up again). And today when we get home, the house will be clean, because we signed up with a cleaning service – one we used several…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Still Not Playing With A Full Deck

    That big desk in the Oval Office is just made for a big ol’ dirty game of cutthroat 2-handed spades… poor POTUS, so worried about everybody else’s sek-shul and po-litical bidness, and he’s still got nobody to play with (Cheney whoooo?? Vice President whaaaaa???). And even if he did, he still doesn’t have all the trump cards stuck to the underside of the desk with a half-chewed wad of Teaberry. (via the very manly PatriotBoy) ((dang, my family unit is unrecognizable under his amendment, too bad)) (((apron + pearls = Red Blooded American burqa: discuss)))

  • Childfreedom

    ::eyeroll maki::

    Why is it that women who are not childfree talk nonstop about pregnancy, babies, how many (theoretical) children they’ll have according to Chinese astrological birth year websites and what the gender of their (theoretical and impending) will be? They’re booking pencil tests right now for the two team members that are currently expecting (and they’ll believe the results, too. Credulous much?) It must be a hormone that I completely lack, thanks be to God.

  • Home Improvement

    Only on Tuesdays, Fridays, And Alternate Saturdays

    It occurred to me again that I can only be sick on Tuesdays, Fridays, and alternate Saturdays, because those are the days my doctor is “in” the office nearest to us. He has two offices – one that used to be convenient before we moved, and one that was inconvenient before we moved (and is now even farther away). Every now and then we talk about changing. I’ve been pretty fed up with his “15 minutes max” approach to medical care – that’s how much time I get with him. Really need to do something about it. Otherwise, the next…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Bullshit! Total Bullshit!

    Here’s what David doesn’t want to know about his recent experience with a major computer manufacturer’s tech support desk. Interestingly, the tech that helped David was not a giver, but a taker – he had to send his laptop in for repair, but all they did was replace the fans. I think I (heart) Ken, the tech with a &!%%#* heart of gold and a vocabulary of salty $#&*!!ing goodness. Thanks to ***Dave Does the Blog for the link to the article.

  • Clan: McTiVo - Uncategorical Weirdness

    My Life Sucks Compared To This

    Yep, it would be so cool to hang out with cool people who just won the friggin' Golden Globes for Chrissake, and also to be able to play the accordion yet maintain coolness. I am just bowled over that Ricky Gervais seems to go unrecognized, but then I'm a BBC American, we're funny like that. Seriously – what a fun life, although it's definitely one lived in the public eye. How odd it would be to know that untold numbers of strangers were checking in on your life, and whether you were treating your loved ones right (and wondering who…

  • The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    Moleskine Madness

    It’s high time I started getting the next England journal entry in (when finished it will pretty much be the entire month of September, with a little bit of story to finish up in October, 2003). I kept the journal in a small, handy Moleskine pocket journal (the kind with the integral rubber band, lined pages, and a pocket for receipts). I bought mine at the local “Container Store;” they always seem to have a few of the small and large blank journals in stock, along with some different Moleskine books that have extra receipt pockets. I’m not sure, but…