Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2022

  • Artemis

    I love that they scrubbed the Artemis launch moon launch Monday. I was excited for it, especially given that there would be three weeks of moon news, but I had two misgivings, both regarding the paint. NASA, take this opportunity to touch up the paint job.

  • The Weaning: Step Three

    If you switch a landline, they tell you that it may take a week to get inbound phone calls again, but they don’t tell you when that week starts. I thought the week started when I signed up with AT&T, but no, it starts the day you sever ties with Charter. I should have read…

  • The Weaning: Step Two

    The first thing that needed to be fixed after the old wireless router switched to the new wireless router were the Alexas. I’d ask my bedroom Alexa to turn off the light and every Alexa in the house answered with “I’m sorry, I’m having a little trouble understanding right now.” They weren’t in unison, though,…

  • The Weaning: Step One

    So we are in the process of switching from Cable to Fiber, from Spectrum to AT&T. If you remember, Gary feels we need two fireboxes and two Rokus and it looks like we’ll have two internet providers as well, because we are not “cutting the cord” as people describe leaving cable, instead we are weaning…

  • Difference

    Forgive me if I’ve said this before, but I just can’t get over different the creation process is between painting and writing. Draft one of a painting is the best part. It’s all,potential, and in some ways it’s the best. Clean, broad, loose. Draft one of a book is shit. Fussy, overdone, useless. I guess…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Basic Flaw

    Hand-editing is horrifying. On page one, I only left two lines alone. Here are the only two original lines remaining: “In the month we’d been married I’d found that if I suffered, Joe felt it tenfold.” and “Huh. You don’t have brothers and sisters –-” Wait, I can combine that with the next sentence. So…

  • Weekly Paint Hiatus: 8/25

    I’m slowly putting the basement back in place, even though technically it hasn’t rained hard enough for the inevitable disappointment. However, I must be able to access the paints because my brother wants paintings of the other two dogs he’s had in his life. So, two MORE dogs in shades of brown. Look for these…

  • Sad Morning

    I had a sad start to my day: I woke from a dream in which I had to find twenty people to go with me to a soccer game and I don’t even have twenty acquaintances. And it was a slow awakening too, I spent several waking minutes wondering why I had accepted these indoor…

  • Cats In the Night

    It was dark, and I was in the closet looking for my sweatpants, and when I realized my pink sweatpants looked just like my grey sweatpants, I thought, “At night, all pants are grey.” And then, “What is that from? Oh, ‘At night, all cats are grey.’ But … what is that from?” And then,…

  • Gary Stocks Up

    As part of the switch to fiber optic internet, all our TV will now be a little less live, because it will all be streamed, and as such we need a streaming device like a Firebox, or a Roku. There’s a Firebox on Gary’s TV already, in preparation for this transition. I said to Gary,…