Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2016

  • Rams

    Well, years ago the Los Angeles Rams moved from L.A., Glamorville, to our little burg here in Saint Louis, and evidently they are done with us and moving back in with their ex in L.A.. The last time a football team broke up with us the owner needed protection at the remaining games. I haven’t…

  • Toilet

    One year ago the toilet in the master bathroom began running incessantly. Not my problem: I sleep in the guest room. I shower in the master bathroom, though. Eleven months ago Gary bought an entire new toilet innards assembly. He did not install it. He just bought it, perhaps to instill fear in the current…

  • Friday Freakout: Pain

    Gary’s back went out almost a week ago. It hasn’t gone out for years, ever since he went to the physical therapist and started stretching. One thing he took away from the PT was that resting in bed for six weeks works against you, so he’s been up and shuffling about throughout. I’ve been doing…

  • Sunday Morning Drive

    Sunday morning I set out for a furniture store down by the river, and (unbeknownst to Siri) the road was washed out. I made the classic mistake of just taking a nearby road that seemed to point the same way. Country roads are not in a grid. I got lost, but in a good way.…

  • State of The Union 2016

    Tuesday night was the fun-filled State of the Union, which is always fun at our house because Gary has strong opinions about politics. I anticipated he would get more conservative as he aged, but he is now more vocally liberal than ever. I’m liberal, but I don’t go on Facebook and make sweeping statements about…

  • For Sale: Playboy Mansion

    You can buy the Playboy Mansion for 200M, but Hefner gets to stay there until he dies. He has a 29 year old wife. Why isn’t she working? Does she get to stay? None of the new reports I’ve seen cover this detail. The obvious answer is that Playboy corporation buys it and makes it…

  • Friday Freakout

    New Policy: Friday posts are devoted to whatever is giving me anxiety this week. Anxiety, my new friend. I’ve never been a worrier in the past, but now my new buddy Anxiety sits by me and bothers me allllll the time, and he says things like: “Oh no. The phone’s ringing. Someone has died.” It’s…

  • New Trump Commercial Backfires

    Have you seen this new Trump commercial? CNN describes it thus: … Trump posted a new video to Instagram casting himself as the “true defender of women’s rights” as a montage of images showing Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton at Bill Cosby’s side flash across the screen. The only voice in the…

  • The Big Short: a Review

    So, here’s what I do for a living. I create computer-based training for a very ethical and fiscally conservative Financial Services firm. You may recall that in 2010 I have to take my Series 7 stockbroker test to be able to do my job. It was hard, especially since I have poor math skills and…

  • A Victory Via Amazon

    My brother asked for what he thought was a simple birthday present. He wants a locking metal trash can so his dog will stop pillaging the trash when my brother is out. He can’t muzzle this dog: evidently she chews through muzzles. It can’t be a plastic trash can because she likes the taste of…