Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2012

  • How to Deal With a Ridiculous First World Problem

    I got the iPhone 3Gs a few years ago for my birthday. Of course now there’s the IPhone 4 with the wonderful Siri application. Everyone loves Siri. There are countless Siri Easter eggs, including the one that shows you the face of Siri. (You ask “What would you look like if you were a human…

  • Onomatopoeia Post

    Burp After lunch I sat with my coworkers, discussing some lame spreadsheet I’d put together and that my boss had edited. The conversation went on too long, and eventually the focus turned away from me, but then – “Ellen!” my boss said, “Is something wrong? What’s wrong? What did I do to the spreadsheet?” She…

  • Stupid Iowa Caucus

    I had a good day overall, in fact I had a work breakthrough and an iPhone Gmail breakthrough. If it were not for the hour from 5 to 6 and the hours from 7 to … now … I’d have had a great day. 5-6: I was tooling down the highway at 5 and ping!…

  • Return of the Lost Bear

    Remember the bears? Remember, Gary and I would hide them around the house? See how there are six in the photo above? Well, at some point, they became five. I hid one somewhere so cleverly I lost it. Well, since this is the last day of vacation, every nook and corner was cleaned, and in…