Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2015

  • Gary: a Continuing Source of Amusement

    Gary and I have a new agreement. Five days a week he sleeps, and posts on Facebook, and intermittently washes his underwear. On the weekends he goes to his new part time job – being my Personal Entertainer. He wakes up at a reasonable time, takes a shower, then escorts me to the zoo or…

  • In Which I Meet the New Boss

    I was in over my head at work yesterday. I usually program in a fairly easy language, but I was wrestling all day with a harder language. At 4:15 I was ready to give up, but I stayed on because 1) “It just might work this time” (as opposed to the last eight hours) and…

  • Cardinals and Clydesdales and Eagles, Oh My.

    Yesterday was the home opener for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. I was at work, but the company was nice enough to livestream the home opener so you can watch from your desk. When I was young, significant games like the home opener and series games had established pageantry. First, the Clydesdales came out…

  • Winning, No Cheating

    I forgot to tell you these things. NaughtiGras I went to NaughtiGras this year. It’s an erotic art show combined with burlesque and street theater. I foolishly went without Gary, and I missed him. He would have loved the burlesque acts. There were people walking around on stilts, sleight-of-hand magicians, semi-nude strippers, semi-nude human sushi…

  • In Which We Amaze and Awe a Stranger

    I am relating an exchange Gary and I had while walking across the grocery store parking lot. He chastised me for saying something to a member of his family that escalated into a drama, a minor drama, but then after it was magnified by the ratio of Gary’s love for his relatives, it turned into…