Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: September 2022

  • Wig

    Well, I took a step toward covering my dreadful hair. I purchased what my mother would call a “wiglet.” Just a little mammal to perch on top of my head and cover my now-significant bald spot. Sadly, it also has heavy bangs. I have named the wiglet Moe, for obvious reasons. Moe may or may…

  • New MS-related News

    MS people – This article discusses a new treatment for our cousin lupus. “The therapy involves modifying a patient’s T cells, a key component of the immune system, and turning them into assassins to efficiently seek out a specific target in the body. In this case, the target is B cells — the immune cells…

  • New Laptop Toy

    At night when the house is silent, the fan on Gary’s new laptop roars like a typhoon. I let Gary know. I don’t think he listened to the laptop before purchasing an extra cooling fan for the laptop to sit on. I know he didn’t look at the image of the fan on Amazon. Or…

  • 2022 Fox Visitation

    Every few years the raccoon buffet will draw an aged and sickly fox. 2018 was the last year with a sickly fox, and now we have another. Like the 2018 sickly fox, this one gets hungry enough to venture out during the day.

  • Rewriting the Novel: Regression

    I was hand-editing the printed draft and discovered that when cobbling the full draft out of the individual chapter files I inadvertently copied one chapter twice. That means my 190 page draft is really only 170 pages. It’s still 55,o00 words, which is what I’m aiming for with a book aimed at 13 year olds,…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 9/15

    This week my brother’s third dog went from this: … to this.

  • Vacation Result

    Well, I had to spend a good part of labor day week on the queen’s deathwatch, and family obligations, so I didn’t have nine full days. But, here’s an update on all my plans for the week off: I added and finished two tasks, 1) purge garage and 2) make a throw pillow (the sewing…

  • Gary Suddenly Becomes Elderly: Part the Second

    The Packet The next day we were setting up the two televisions to use AT&T’s facsimile of live TV, and when we ran into a hitch Gary said, “WELL WHAT’S IT SAY IN THE PACKET?” “Packet?” “THE PACKET. THERE’S GOT TO BE A QUICK START BROCHURE IN THE PACKET.” “No packet, babe.” “WHY DID YOU…

  • Gary Suddenly Becomes Elderly: Part the First

    It didn’t worry me when Gary’s hair turned grey. Older men are hot. I was fine when he started losing his hair. Happens to all of us. However, just this last week he has exhibited two signs of aging that have concerned me. Scam Panic Because we’re changing our email, Gary is getting a lot…

  • 9/11 Again

    “Why aren’t the Emmys on Sunday night,” I wondered. Then I looked at the calendar. 9/11. I thought, “Well, that makes sense. Can’t have an awards ceremony on the anniversary of September 11. I wonder when September 11 will be like the anniversary of Pearl Harbor?” Already, evidently. Turns out they moved the Emmys to…