Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: August 2023

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/31

    This week Hunky Gary went from this: … to this. “� when he was originally this: Why is his head so tiny in the original? More foreshortening I guess. Next week it’s live images, nothing to aim for,

  • Birthday Month 2023

    Another birthday month has come and gone, and I believe this is the first time I did not use my birthday month privileges. Invoking the birthday month allows the birthee to win any fight or demand satisfaction of any desire (within reason). For my birthday gift, he gave me the gift of a clean kitchen…

  • I Should Be Reading this Book

    Almost twenty years ago, when this blog was young, I took a quiz to discover what book exemplifies me. I got A Prayer for Owen Meany, a book currently sitting on my nightstand. I read the first chapter. I have not started the second chapter. I don’t know why. This book has been recommended by…

  • Trial Update 2023

    I’m all done with my preliminary visits for the clinical trial. Now I visit every other month and generally just give a blood sample. Earlier this month I was concerned that this new XBB variant was going to kill off this trial the same way Omicron shut down Evusheld. As I thought, they were indeed…

  • TWIL: Three Bears

    I was stewing about two co-workers who share nothing but a job title. One is too slow, one is too fast; one is flight, one is fight; and the only thing have in common is that neither appreciates the other. “His porridge is too cold, her porridge is too hot,” I grumbled to myself, then…

  • TWIL: Electric cars can still cause garage fires

    I have charged my car in our garage for three years. The nose of the car is pointed toward the house and the heat from the charge is directed at the garage refrigerator. And all was well for years. Gary charges his car the same way, but it is bigger, more batteries, and when you…

  • Damn Covid

    Remember when I was on the team that won the Huge United Way trivia competition? They did it again. Yesterday. Without me. I just couldn’t justify going into that hugely crowded gymnasium, especially with XBB / BA.2.86 popping up in area hospitals. I think to date this is the worst thing Covid has taken from…

  • What is Wrong with This Picture? Mugshot

    I’m sorry, but there’s something very uncanny valley about this mug shot. The marionette line is odd. His jacket looks like something a Sim would wear. The light’s coming from the right? Why wouldn’t they have a light shining directly at his face for a mug shot? His chin looks like it’s made of vectors.…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 8/24

    This week Hunky Gary went from this: … to this. I am done with it. Parts I like, parts I don’t.

  • Contractors

    I have heard horror stories about contractors. People will say contractors start a job, demolition happens, contractors don’t come back for a year. My building company (or rather my Building Arts company) came out last December, I paid the deposit, I upgraded the specs, and heard the renovation would be scheduled for spring. Since then…