Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2021

  • Signs

    One thing about Gary: he doesn’t like to be told what to do. I know, no one likes to be told what to do, but Gary hates it so much he even resents road signs. We were in the car together for the first time in months, and he encountered two road signs he felt…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Halfway Begun

    Well, I looked at my outline and I’ve hit the midpoint, and I counted the words, and I’m at 30,000. Thirty thousand very very poor words, but exactly half of what’s expected. It’s almost all dialogue that could be pared down to make room for pithy descriptions. I think I’ll be hard-pressed later to find…

  • Vaccine 2: Giving it My Full 74%

    I got my second vaccine. This time it was a drive-through, just as organized and efficient as when I came for the first shot. As you know, the doctor said if Covid vaccines act like flu vaccines, this will protect me against 74% of the covid viruses I encounter. I suppose that means there’s a…

  • Fauci Fight

    The news is full of this feisty exchange: The Wall Street Journal says Fauci should have just answered the question, which I imagine would sound like, “We think 500 people can die per day then we start opening for business.” Still, Jim Jordan is pressing that these constraints are standing in the way of our…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/15

    This week the salt shakers went from this: … to this: Bleeehhh. The town went from this: … to this:

  • Cadence

    I am almost done with MSNBC. My problem with MSNBC? My problem with MSNBC it the way they have this annoying three-part cadence. My problem with MSNBC is the way they repeat everything three times. My problem with MSNBC is how they speak as if there’s an audience ready to stand and applaud when they…

  • Sick Car

    We dropped off the Mini at the mechanic because it’s been oddly doggy. Not quite enough pep to get up a hill easily. Not enough pep to go from zero to anything easily. If I’m at a stop sign at the bottom of even a slight hill, then I am doomed unless if I stomp…

  • Not News

    This is not news. Why doesn’t this headline say “Son Behaves Like a Human” or something similar? Why has People magazine been shoving this at me all weekend?

  • This Is Why We Don’t Use ‘One’

    I visited the Wikipedia pronouns page because we’ve hired some Southerners which stemmed a work discussion about “you all” filling in as the second person pronoun, with “all y’all” meaning a specific number of “you all”. Pronouns are just a mess. We’ve given up the fight on “his or hers” and went with “theirs” (or…

  • Basement

    Well, even after we got the drainage fixed, the puddle in the basement welled up on the New Year’s Day ice storm, but it was an ice storm, and there’s expansion and blockages that go with it, so I let it slide.I just cursed a lot. The ice storm cursing was nothing compared to the…