Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

So is the Great Wattle Hypothesis proven? Did the Pricey Cream earn its keep durimg the 16-week experiment? 8 weeks right side, 8 weeks left and right side. First, the baseline chart, or Wattle Through the Ages. Here is the photographic benchmark, week 1 for the 16 week time period. And here is the result…

This is where my room was: This coffee was the only familiar food I ate. The rest was paella and ramen and Palestinian food and of course that huge meal the first day. I also went to see the Mucha exhibit, saw comedians John Mulaney and Mike Birbiglia, touched a sea urchin at the aquarium,…

I tried to up my phone game as well as my transportation game. Two mitigated successes. Early failure, then success: I did have to try two times, but eventually I got my Apple Pay to work. I didn’t realize I needed to open the Wallet app first to use Apple Pay, it seems like I’d…

One of my favorite travel memories is one of Gary’s least favorite memories. Gary was recovering from an emergency gallbladder surgery, worst vacation nightmare manifested. He threw me out of the hospital room, and there I was, on my own, and I wanted to go far afield. I think I caught a bus to the…

A man in the hotel elevator commented on how hot it was outside. ”It hasn’t felt hot to me,” I said. “But then, I have been through menopause and know what hot really feels like.” (This was followed by the slighttest of pauses before I apologized for the TMI, and he said, “Oh no, I…

I did paint Thursday, just it was watercolors. The hotel offers “experiences” and this month’s experience was watercolor painting. I have no evidence because I left it behind. The instructor took photos; perhaps an email is in the offing. The instructor’s grandmother also painted china like my great-aunt Rosemary. I was not thrilled with the…

I have seen this image on traveler reviews of this hotel. I assume she wears a wig. I feel at home. The train was brutally cold. I long for tomorrow’s 120 heat index.

I am in the midst of packing. The room is in chaos. I’m pulling all the options into a pile and deciding what to wear for the two weather forecasts: hot and steamy and rainy and hot and steamy and not rainy. Above is a piece of the pile. Brown shirt is a definite, striped…

The plan was to pay for these trips with the airline miles we’ve stored up since 2018, but you redeem airline miles for flights, car rentals, and hotels. Early in planning the KC trip, I dropped air travel. An AA flight to KC — 240 miles west — would require that I head south for…

I was focusing on how to make my leftover chicken palatable for the five minutes Gary spent ranting about Elon Musk. According to Gary, Musk has a plan to build a robot-operated satellite factory on the moon. That’s why I was a little distracted when he stopped ranting and I said, “Maybe Elon’s just talking.…