Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: July 2020

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/30

    This week the crypts went from this … … to this … This week I need to compare values. Those bricks will be knocked back. I am not straightening a single line. Done to death with that. The flowers went from this … … to this …

  • Stuck in My Head

    I decided I wanted to crack the code on the Key Signature With All the Sharps, so I searched the internet for the different fingering recommendations for all the key signatures. Couldn’t find it. Looked on the shelves and found a book I bought 13 years ago that contains nothing but that information. So I…

  • Color Adjustment

    While I might someday be the old lady who cannot use the remote, I do like new technology. I think that must be because I remember old technology. Gather round, young’ns, and let me tell you about ye olde television color settings. When I first married Gary, he had a black and white television. My…

  • Upstairs Downstairs

    I am almost done with season one of Upstairs Downstairs, and I was disappointed enough to Google “Worst season of Upstairs Downstairs.” Happily, it seems if a viewer makes it past season one, she won’t be disappointed again until season three. I give the show credit for discussing topics taboo in the early seventies, but…

  • Pershall Closure

    The circled red condominium is where I lived from 6-12 years old. The blue line is the radioactive creek a few blocks away. The green line is Pershall Road, currently closed, because they are digging up all the still-radioactive soil, contaminated by the radioactive creek, itself contaminated by radioactive Manhattan Project byproduct that washed into…

  • Baseball Opening Day Weirdness

    Things I like about Cardinals Opening Day: I actually liked the fake crowd noise. I noticed one long fly ball that almost made it into the seats, and the “crowd” made the appropriate ascending and descending “AhhhAHHHHHHHROOOAAARRRawwwwwwww…sigh” sound. I pictured some sound guy twisting a dial as the ball almost made a home run and…

  • Bruno the Bear Update

    From Arkansas TV – https://www.nwahomepage.com/around-arkansas/bruno-the-bear-spotted-in-northeast-arkansas/ ======== IMBODEN, Ark. (KARK) — A strange visitor was caught passing through Arkansas. It was no ordinary black bear. It was the famous Bruno the Bear. This is the fourth state Bruno has been spotted in after starting his journey in Wisconsin. Even though Bruno is popular, Arkansas Game and…

  • Best Mask So Far

    This was going to be one of Gary’s two raccoon masks. Too bad. It’s mine now. I almost can’t wait to go out in this mask.

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 7/23

    This weeks the crypts went from this … … to this: I know it looks like nothing happened. That’s because I tweaked and repainted all the vertical lines. I also did a lot on of Un-doing on the 3rd crypt from the right. Every time I looked at it another proportion was wrong. And about…

  • Viruses Are Sneaky

    If viruses were people they would be sociopaths. Polio Viruses are Vengeful – Mom got polio at 13, and died from post-polio syndrome at 71. Will Covid do the same … will the after-effects kill the survivors sixty years on? Poliomyelitis will wait to get its revenge, Covid may as well. Cold Viruses Wear Disguises…