Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2021

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 5/20

    This week the pansies went from this: … but wait. I happened to remember that’s from the book that tells you step-by-step what to do. Wow, did I go far afield. Whoops. But that was the plan, right? To go my own way? … so now it’s this: The next project? I have no more…

  • Gary and the Car

    Gary has not embraced the car. Well, he has not embraced driving the car. He did drive it last Monday, but he was hesitant. He claims it’s because he knows every mile he drives takes up one percent of the battery. I see his point – I drive to Florissant and back and discover that…

  • Review: The Death of Stalin

    I don’t know who marketed the movie The Death of Stalin when it came out four years ago, but either they were an idiot or a genius. I didn’t see a trailer, but I saw a clip of the council of Ministers rushing to fawn on Stalin’s daughter, and it struck me as a drama.…

  • Pink Laptop

    I thought I could come to the blog to find out how old my pink laptop is – all I see is a reference to Gary having paid it off in May of 2009. It held on until May of 2021, so 12 years. It did need the lid replaced once. But, the CD tray…

  • Responds How?

    So I saw this commercial for a “smart bed” that responds to snoring. At first I thought, so how does the bed respond to the snoring? Does it rattle you awake? Toss you off the side? Then I saw the head tilt graphic. So if someone snores because he has, let us say, sleep apnea,…

  • Foxes

    Yesterday, Gary checked some old unseen backyard videos, and he reported the foxes are back. The one in the first few seconds is checking to see if lamb and rice dog food is still in the menu. Rabbit is on the menu in the last second for the second fox. ====== Related: Bears of Saint…

  • Wires

    Maybe I have a little Joan Crawford in me, but I find this unacceptable: This mess is behind the monitor on Gary’s computer desk. Usually I steer clear of his little hoarder haven, but I needed a big monitor for a work task. I was finally able to find the monitor cable after I gave…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 5/13

    This week the salt shakers went from this: to this: Large areas are wrong but some parts are right, so it’s a wash and I am stopping. [LATER] I realize now I didn’t paint in the salt shaker holes on her salt shaker breasts, so now she just looks like a naked women posing amid…

  • Some Nice Covid Etiquette

    One of our team leaders at work announced a retirement, and because everyone is fully immunized, the retiree wants to have an in-person retirement party. The remarkable thing was that he immediately followed that with “However, I am aware that some people have medical conditions that make it so can’t they are still at risk…

  • Things I Have Discovered While Curating My Music

    I’ve been adding my early music collection to Amazon Music. Man, there are a lot of nineties songs, which is odd given that I made the list in the mid-2000s. I still have the late aughts and 2010s to go. There were a few surprises. There ia a Barenaked Ladies song I didn’t know about.…