Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: May 2021

  • The Bears are Back in Town

    Remember how last summer was the summer of Bruno the bear? Bruno the black bear was in my neighborhood looking for a mate. Well, a bear has been seen in the Saint Louis area, two days in a row, (no, make that three, now there’s a photo on Facebook putting the bear in Brentwood). So,…

  • Looks Like I Picked a Good Day to Buy an All-Electric Car

    Cyber-criminals have attacked the U.S.’s biggest oil pipeline. From the Wall Street journal article: “Inventories of gasoline have been readied for the summer driving season and usually get replenished every five to six days. … The fuel artery is critical to supplying the northeastern U.S. and other markets, and extended shutdowns of the pipeline have…

  • CD Dismay

    Yes, yes, the rest of you converted all your CDs to digital ten years ago. There’s no CD player in the new car, I am late to the game. They are finally forcing me into the future. It’s a big adjustment, trading physical stuff for digital stuff. I was going to burn every CD we…

  • Fish Game

    The new electric Mini Cooper has a built-in game. If you get in, activate the voice commands, and say, “My mini! Activate! Minimalism!” then it shows you a graphic of a fish in a fishbowl, and if you waste electricity while driving, the water sloshes out of the fishbowl and the fish is dismayed. You…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 5/6

    This week the salt shakers went from this: …to this: My goal is to paint as realistically as possible with the fewest amount of strokes. I need to stop looking at what’s there and paint what should be there. In the salt shakers some parts look real and parts are a cartoon. The far left…

  • Uh – oh

    This thought just crept into my head: “You know, I bet pottery’s an interesting hobby.” That’s some trouble brewing.

  • Herd Immunity

    I heard on the news last night that scientist say the U.S. might not ever reach herd immunity. (It’s what I herd. Snort.) This discourages me. I suppose it means I’ll always have a 25% chance of dying from the covid if I leave my bubble and encounter a virus. (By the way, if I…

  • Bruised

    I was at my physical and the doctor asked me about my five bruises. “Yardwork.” I said. That was early last month. Now I have 36 bruises. I didn’t even know about the ten on the back of my right arm; Gary had to ask why I have ten tiny bruises in a row. And…

  • My Friday Night

    I start a new project Monday, and I wanted to finish up my old project before I get absorbed in the new one. I worked on it all day Friday, and then all evening Friday, and then from midnight to 5:30 a.m., when I got two hours of sleep. At about two a.m. I remembered…

  • Mammary Glands

    I was working out in the yard, and evaluated my sweat level. Was it shower-worthy sweat? It was just underboob sweat, not all-over sweat. “That makes sense,” I thought. “They are sweat glands.” And then an earworm burst into my head, finally free after decades of waiting for me to connect the Gland neuron to…