Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: November 2025

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 11/20/2025

    This week Tulips 2025 went from this: … to this.

  • Gary’s Christmas ornament has arrived

    I didn’t go with a scale.

  • Trivia

    I was purchasing food for trivia night, and I thought I might try to recreate the selections of cheeses and almonds and fig paste Friend Anne and I so enjoyed before the opera that one time. “What was that dish called,” I wondered as I picked out the cheeses. “Croquamboard? Crocambouche? Charboard? Crudite?” At trivia…

  • The Flight of the Gnat

    We both thought it was odd that we had gnats in November. At 7 p.m. Gary announced they were not gnats, but tiny drain flies. I said, “Kill them with bleach. Pour it down the drain. Or boiling water. Or a mix of boiling bleach and apple cider vinegar.” Then I walked that back, because…

  • TWIL: I am mature, but not a mature adult

    I spent yesterday fixing the 800+ dead links on this site. There are some videos I need to track down but on the whole I think everything is back to normal. Well. Two things wrong with that sentence. A) “normal”, obviously, and B) “everything”. Three images are missing. You’d think I could get them from…

  • Getting things tidied up

    I’m tidying up the last bits I need to file for the radiation compensation. I sent a mental smile into the universe for Mom when I found my Dad’s death certificate in a snap. She was so organized. Gary questions if I should file at all. He points out that David’s liver cancer death doesn’t…

  • Christmas Ornaments 2025

    Well, time to pick the significant memories of the year for the Christmas ornament. The past few years I’ve commemorated things I’ve bought or houses I’ve sold, not things I’ve done or places I’ve seen. The Northern Lights sought me out this year, so that’s one ornament sorted. In purchases we bought a fancy thermostat…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 11/13/2025

    This week Tulips 2025 went from this: … to this.

  • Finally the cosmos cooperates

    I did not hold out much hope for seeing the Northern lights Tuesday night. I learned from previous attempts you must eschew all television or other entertainments and do nothing but scan Facebook for every pink and green aurora post in your feed. I saw the locations creep closer and closer. “Washington Missouri … I…

  • Or maybe the ghost in the machine is messing with me

    So I went once more into the breach with AI. I once again made it prove to me that Dave Barry created … well, this very blog persona. It caved pretty fast this time. The next day I was curious to see if the knowledge stuck overnight. It did not say this blog character was…