Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2022

  • Start the Clock

    MSNBC teased me with this news and then never delivered. I had to hunt this down. “Moderately to severely immunocompromised people can get another shot if it’s been at least five months since their last one.” Per the CDC site: Who Is Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised? People are considered to be moderately or severely immunocompromised…

  • Rewriting the Novel: The Horrifying Realization That It Is Crap

    Well, that’s an exaggeration. But yes, I did another even more objective analysis of the first draft and thought many thoughts. There was a lot of “What the hell was I thinking?” and even more “This all has to be gutted and done over,” but still a fair amount of “I can keep this if…

  • Covid Conspiracy

    Gary’s been complaining that the road to the SuperBowl has been chaotic this year because of Covid. A team headed to the SuperBowl will find half the team is out with Covid. Chaos ensues and no doubt digs in to the pockets of the NFL, the players, the gamblers, et al. If I were an…

  • A Message to the Community from the Big Hospital System

    Last week we ALL got this remarkable email from the big hospital system, Barnes-Jewish-Christian. It was titled Message to the Community from BJC HealthCare and Washington University and I paraphrase it below. ============ Blah blah, we have important information to tell you If you need to get a Covid test so you can travel, and…

  • Lost Cheese

    I hate that feeling of mindless eating, when you consume food and don’t enjoy it. I was dismayed that I two days ago I evidently ate half a slice of American cheese and did not remember it. At all. Then I found it sitting on the earbud box. I’m telling myself the colors matched, only…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 1/6

    This week the Ball pitcher went from this: … to this: … when it was originally this: I know there are still a lot of problems (and it’s obvious I simplified it a lot) but I think the things that are right outnumber the things that are wrong.

  • Rewriting the Novel: Essay

    Now that I’ve let the book sit for a month, I am rediscovering things I’d forgotten. Evidently one night I woke up and typed, “Add a part where there is a dog named Miss Darcy and Maggie thinks it’s an actual person but it isn’t it’s a dog.” I will not be adding that part.…

  • Still, Pleased with the Chair

    Here’s an update from Snopes on how people became convinced Wayfair was trafficking children. It’s kind of hilarious. Someone after my own heart exaggerated something. I do like the Wayfair chair, partly because they were so agreeable about taking off the charge because of the scratch and my mistake about the casters. On a related…

  • Gary Has a Stunning Revelation

    Gary waved me over to where he had been comparing his can of Dr. Pepper and a protein shake. “Look at these numbers! For just ten more calories I get all these nutrients. Calcium and stuff. The Doctor Pepper has just … nothing.”

  • Agoraphobia

    I don’t know anything about the condition of agoraphobia. I know my Mom felt that “Aunt” Carleen’s agoraphobia might improve if she just got out of her apartment once in a while. (I’m almost certain Mom was being facetious.) I can guess that there’s a chemical catalyst behind agoraphobia. I suppose someday they’ll find the…