Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: April 2026

  • Splashdown

    Astronauts are back and safe. I can stand down. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been on edge these past ten days. Gary didn’t help this morning when he shared the heat shield worries. Anyway, good work NASA, you waited until April this time. Excellent work on the animated graphics in particular. Early on…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/9/2026

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

  • Green moon continued

    They have begun to release the images of the far side of the moon. No one at NASA is talking about the alleged green tint. Disappointed Photoshop users everywhere immediately took the ohotos and cranked up the color saturation. I won’t show you an doctored example. However, I did zoom in on the Earthrise photo…

  • Moon notes

    Okay, this is Sunday evening, and I have a comment for the astronaut giving notes on the far side of the moon. You mentioned two key things. Evidently some parts OF THE MOON are brown, and some are tinged green. So stop rhapsodizing about the Terminator. Tell me more about the green. Lime green or…

  • Moon day!

    It is a shame that the president has chosen the same day and time for his public speech on the current war in Iran. Is he competing with the moon for attention? I bet the astronauts are pretty excited. It really is a shame the toilet has been working only on and off. I would…

  • TWIL: Something new about my favorite book

    [SPOILERS GALORE!] [NYT CROSSWORD SPOILERS! ENDING OF JANE EYRE SPOILERS!] The New York Times crossword had a clue sometime this past week, something like “Literary heroine’s name that describes her appearance and the end of the book.” Other letters left no choice other than Jane Eyre. “Huh. Okay, Jane, Plain Jane, kind of a stretch…

  • Plants in pots

    I am tweaking the landscaping — and this year is the year of the pink, evidently. Phlox, which I’ve never tried, and dianthus, which is a soldier. You will note they are still in the pots. I worked for hours today, but it was all spent unearthing the river rocks I put out ten years…

  • Mission Control CapCom

    When I think of Capcom (the Capsule Communicator, the guy who communicates with the space capsule), I think of this hard-smoking coffee-drinking guy, Gene Kranz. I can’t tell you how nice it was to watch the burn that pointed the Artemis astronauts to the moon, and to notice that the majority of the people on…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 4/2/2026

    So this is the previous … This is the progress … And this is the goal. Hmm. I think that the best case is that it ends up no worse than before. Haven’t messed with the flowers yet. The wall needs glazes so it isn’t so mottled. And I’m using titanium white. Is there an…

  • Launch

    I know we’ve put people into low earth orbit for years, but it’s not the same as going to the moon. Two things happened in the last few hours: Someone at work referred to a work deadline as T minus 2 hours away and I snapped at her. Someone on the NASA channel mentioned that…