Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2026

  • Missed opportunity, NASA

    NASA has delayed the Artemis II launch two days, from February 6th to the 8th. The delay was originally because of problems with the “wet rehearsal”. We already did have three astronauts die in a fire during a rehearsal, so good job learning from history. Now today I hear that it was actually delayed because…

  • I participate in the national blackout by accident

    There was a call today for citizens to boycott work, school, shopping, etc. to protest I.C.E. (”Immigration and Customs Enforcement” emphasis on “FORCE”). I did boycott all these things today. What I did not boycott was my bathroom, because what actually took me out all day was an awful, awful stomachache. I am running the…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 1/29/2026

    So this is the previous… This is the progress … And this is the goal.

  • Support

    Last Wednesday, the day I had the unexpected visit to the eye doctor, Gary had an issue with our new pharmacy refusing to fill his B-12 prescription. This led to an unfortunate conversation in which Gary almost simultaneously said both “STOP BEING A BABY ABOUT YOUR EYE” and “MOMMY TAKE CARE OF MY B-TWELF PWOBLEM…

  • Roomba bankruptcy

    I was gutted to hear that Roomba’s parent company, iRobot, is going into bankruptcy. Mom and I were both early Roomba adopters. I still have the early virtual “walls” from my first one. I currently have \ a heavy-duty basement Roomba, a pet model ground floor Roomba, and a mopping “Scooba”. I know there are…

  • Bitter cold

    Bad: Today’s national weather was ice in the south, and eight inches of snow at -4 here in the middle, and similar nastiness up north. This means that Important Work People cannot fly in for an Important Work Conference this week. However, Local Important Work People will attend, so it was all hands on deck…

  • TWIL: All about posterior vitreous detachment

    This week I learned a number of things about posterior viterous detachment. I did get it checked out, like an ADULT, and it is the less serious of the two. It seems I’ll be looking at this little dust bunny in my right eye for the next month at least. Oh, and whhhhhhhyyy whhhhhyyyyy meeeee?…

  • Love letters from Dad: part three – the beginning

    Today’s been a long day. Evidently, everything I know about how my Mom and Dad met, the trajectory of their romance, all of the family lore — is just not true. Had you asked me this morning how Mom and Dad met, I’d have said, “Oh, it was sad. Mom’s sister Dolores died in a…

  • Love letters from Dad: part two – the love

    Were it not for the references to Falstaff beer I would never believe that my Dad – my stoic, emotionless, rational Dad – wrote three letters a day full of all the passion I have never heard from any man in my entire life. “I love you, I love you, I love you.” And then…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 1/22/2026

    So this is the previous… This is the progress … And this is the goal.