Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2019

  • Stockpot

    A tedious post … In Which I Document My Purchases. (Ah – if only I had thought of that category thirteen years ago.) The induction stove only works with ferrous metals, so one thing I had to give away was Mom’s giant aluminum stockpot. The replacement was a $15 Walmart stockpot. That stockpot lasted five…

  • Further Vindication

    So, about a dozen years ago I told my friends about a Clydesdale mass murder that had happened in the 1980’s, and was ridiculed, but was eventually – partially – vindicated. You’ll notice the vindication above doesn’t come with a newspaper citation, though. Every once in a while, when I think of Clydesdales (as one…

  • Posts: Where Are They Now? An Update On Three Recent Posts

    Pie Crusts – Four pies ago the gods cursed me and I had a massive systemic failure. Three pie crusts ago I made an ideal quiche. Two pie crusts ago, I doubled the recipe, but neglected to double the flour. I tried pre-baking that, and you can imagine my dismay when I pulled it out…

  • I Need to Try Some of this Beer Beverage People Speak Of

    So, at the moment I am writing this (8:30 CT Saturday night) the currently current, regrettably Democrat Governor Northam of Virginia has (let me check) decided not to resign because he does not recall having posed in blackface as shown on his yearbook page, and claims now that he is not the man pictured. I…

  • Ah-nomatopoeia

    Gary has a little trouble with accept / except, and frankly, I do too. They’re homophones and then the two exceptions just throw it all off. I have to study up every time. I once edited his Facebook posts for accept/except, but it’s just too much. I’ve also noticed that instead of typing “Uh-oh,” he…

  • Yet Another Ill-Advised Amazon Purchase

    First I bought the German book. This time it was Gary’s turn. He was trying to buy a big salad bowl, because if he makes salad then I can’t use the metal bowl to make pie crust (it’s the smaller one). He claims he measured. He claims it didn’t cost that much. It cost FIFTY…