Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2023

  • ChatGPT

    I’ve heard about ChatGPT, the Artificial intelligence bot that ate up the internet until September 2021. You can ask it questions and it will respond in kind. Ask intimate questions and get intimate responses. Ask medical questions, get medical responses. I have steered clear of ChatGPT, because it’s an unknown, and I keep my iPad…

  • Weight

    I was expecting to hear something about my weight at my physical, given that I think I’ve gained 15 pounds since the last time I weighed myself. “You’ve gained 130 pounds since last October!” said the doctor. “That can’t be right.” I said. “Your weight last October was 120.” My weight in grade school was…

  • Lume Deodorant

    Gary screams whenever MSNBC plays this commercial. And they play it hourly, if not more. Yesterday morning he came out of the bathroom holding our shared speed stick deodorant. He had a demented look in his eye. “What did I do?” I sighed, because I quite often do things wrong with our shared sanitary items.…

  • Rewriting the Novel: Line Edit Update

    Remember the line edits from a month ago? I had done 714 edits, I needed to do 1,092 more? Done! Well, 10% of them were skipped and relegated to revision status, e.g. ” What damn color is her damn dress? Did I pick blue stripes or brown plaid? P-I” P-I stands for Post-its. The next…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/6

    All right. Enough trying for representations. Next up I’m trying this. I got this far.

  • Gary and the Grand Passion

    Gary and I were watching Sleepless in Seattle, and Meg Ryan was talking about the “magic” that happens when you meet “the one.” “Did we have the magic?” I asked Gary. “I don’t remember.” He said, “We had the magic at first. But then, you know, the magic always fades.” And then he rubbed my…

  • TWIL: Presidential Arrests

    This week I learned about Another President under arrest. The hook: In anticipation of the First Arrest of Donald J Trump, the New York Times said: There is also one less serious example of a president being arrested: A Washington, D.C., police officer arrested Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 for speeding in his horse and…

  • Body Donation

    Previously on Will Someone Take This Body, I discovered my body donation documents expired about a quarter of a century ago. However, I had a plan. First I needed to contact Barnes downtown and see if I could re-up. I described the situation to the coordinator of body donation there and he replied that day.…

  • Cruel April Fool’s Joke

    Saint Louis is in love with our new XFL football team . Tender new love. “I love you. Do you like me? I really love you.” And it’s our first love after having our hearts broken when the St. Louis Rams cruelly ditched us and moved back to LA. And then the Battlehawks team pulls…

  • Not an April Fools Joke

    I remember Paula Jones? While her complaint was plodding through the courts, a state judge threw the case out on April 1. Supposedly it was very difficult to convince Clinton that it wasn’t an April Fool’s Day joke. And you know what else? That’s the last I heard about it. I thought she lost. It…