Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: February 2023

  • In Which I Am Wrong

    The things I do consistently: 1.) Turn on the subtitles and closed captioning in Netflix, prime, live tv. 2.) Audibly correct the spelling any time I see “nerve-wracking” spelled as “nerve racking.” Last week I even asked someone. “It’s spelled with a ‘w’ right?” She confirmed that yes, like wracked with pain, it gets a…

  • Things in the Sky

    I missed two things in the sky recently.

  • Talk with Hospital

    I finally took the first step toward calling Dave’s surprise cancer doctor, I called the records department. In Saint Louis I would expect an answer in a week, but this is Albuquerque, and so I’ll hear in two and a half months. Or, possibly, not. I have my theory, that he was in denial that…

  • Mustang

    Back when Gary was looking at electric Mustangs, he found out that the UK, Québec, and New York were all considering using them for their police forces, because they have that really incredible speed and pickup. Several articles showed this image of the prototype. You can see the Mustang logo in the top center of…

  • Visitor

    I was in a work meeting when I took a bathroom break and spotted this symmetrical guy on the hallway wall. My first instinct was to kill it, but it was too substantial and I didn’t want to have to paint the wall. My next instinct was to photograph it, and then to admire it,…

  • Bad Morning

    Earlier this week, these dominos fell during a 2 hour window. This root canal was the express lane version of my previous root canal, in half the time, and at one sixth the cost (pending insurance). I think when I was in last week complaining about my jaw, it distracted me from any tooth pain.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 2/2

    This week the sea went from this: … to this: I KNOW! That’s way better.

  • Not a Review: The Banshees of Inisherin

    Sure, and this would ha’ been a review of The Banshees of Inisherin so, but we couldn’t get past the first feckin’ twenty minutes. Twenty minutes in the characters have mainly all been established as charming, and your sympathies are with Colin Farrell, and then the conflict is established (man is too dull for other…