Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2022

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/30

    This week the Blue Heeler went from this: … to this, because my brother pointed out I had reversed the light and dark on the two sides of the dogs face. The dog is resting its head on a piece of driftwood, evidently. It has new problems but other problems are lessened.

  • Lady in the Bathroom

    I was briefly in a hospital bathroom last week. A woman came in, and by the way she walked I could tell she was sick. Every move made her sigh, or grunt, or wheeze. She got into the stall next to me and I heard a deep, long, loud sound. As you do, in a…

  • Reviews: [SPOILERS] Gentleman Jack, The Staircase, Jerry and Marge Go Large, Old

    Season 2 of Gentleman Jack cut back on the two things I particularly like: the carriage-bounding and the sly looks at the camera. I don’t know if the lead actress came up lame or what, but they literally wrote the carriage out of the plot, shipping it off to London for repairs and replacing it…

  • Planning Ahead 2022

    I may have taken the first step out of Covid vulnerability. I waited a month and the high liver numbers are trending down, so I might be able to stay on the statins that were messing with my liver, and therefore get my cholesterol low enough that I might feel confident in my heart health,…

  • Mini Cooper Design Flaw

    There in a flaw in the Mini Cooper design. When one is plugging in the charging cord, it is impossible to avoid ones reflection. The window above the plug is reflective, and the blue-black body below is reflective, so you get two unavoidable images. Both reflections were so strikingly awful I had to come back…

  • Tooth Says “Hello”

    I was in the dentist’s chair waiting for the novocaine to kick in, thinking those pre-dentist thoughts. A tooth is going to break off as he’s working on it. He is going to drill through my tooth all the way into my brain. The novocaine is going to wear off and I’m going to feel…

  • Almonds

    I asked Gary, “Why don’t murderers kill people by just putting cyanide in almond cookies and just burning them a little? To trick those rare people who say cyanide smells like burnt almonds?” After several side arguments from Gary (IT’S NOT CYANIDE IT’S STRYCHNINE / YOU CAN’T SMELL CYANIDE BECAUSE YOU CAN’T TASTE IT /…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/23

    This week the Blue Heeler went to… to only this, because the white paint that took things back to scratch hadn’t dried yet. You tell me: is the paw on the left side of the image on top of the paw on the right, or is it the other

  • Scary Video

    I have been alerted by YouTube that one of my videos has been tagged as Not Safe for Kids. I would embed the scandlous video, but it insists you go to YouTube to view it. So here’s a link, but you wont see much. You will see a gathering of a variety of animals, from…

  • More Surprising Family News

    I was talking with my brother about our parents’ divorce. We agreed on the date of the separation, the divorce, and the whisking off to Galveston and the subsequent end of summers with Jerry. “And that was the last contact we had with him,” I said. (The official end the relationship was the big “I…