Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

Usually I’m quite happy to live near the weather service office, because it makes the TV tornado maps easy to read. The center of the radar beacon is the weather office, which is just a few miles from my house as the crow flies, or, as the tornado spins. Today, though, I did not appreciate…

I was feeling old. I believe it was because I remembered driving with my Grandmother in her car, which was a ’55 Nash Rambler. I was six. We were driving twenty miles an hour on Lindbergh Boulevard. We were not making any friends. I realized that few of my work colleagues would have driven in…

I once heard someone defend middle-class casseroles, saying Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup was just pre-made Bechamel sauce. I thought of that last night when I made a fancy version of Pork Chops in Cream of Mushroom soup. I skimmed the recipe I found online. I assembled my ingredients: pork chops, spices, portobello mushrooms, lah…

I got back up on the book pony yesterday. I had ignored a series of problems, and I was ready to take them on. Problems: Boring bit in which our heroine sends a telegram. I tweaked my interest by making the telegram agent more interesting. Sad part in which she mourns her vanished husband. Moved…

I wasn’t going to go to the Habitat for Humanity Trivia match, even though the core trivia team was going, but they sent out an extra plea the day before … and I caved. I really thought I’d have a contretemps with Gary over it, but all he said was, “Don’t forget your mask.” And,…

A few weeks ago I smelled a bad, bad smell from the Immortal Amana Garage Refrigerator/Freezer (IAGR/F). I tracked the smell to a veggie burger in the freezer. I threw it out and IAGR/F smelled fine. Then the smell returned two days later. I wiped everything down. The smell was greatly reduced. A week ago…

Over 15 years ago, I bought a purse. It must have been around the time that I comforted myself that I wasn’t spending thousands on a purse like Paris Hilton. Just hundreds. “Well,” I thought, “I will wear it for years, and it will all even out.” And, it did. It has just recently begun…

Wig One This past month I considered exciting yet uncrowded places I might go when I inch out of the house. One of those places is a glass factory featuring demonstrations. I went a few decades ago. It wasn’t too hot for me and the MS, as I recall, but there was an open fire.…

I’ve had my sous-vide for years, and I’ve always skipped the bacon recipe. I do like the idea of cooking bacon in bulk though. I’ll cook all the bacon at once in the oven. However, now I’m tired of the cleanup, so I thought I might give the sous-vide bacon recipe a shot. Best thing?…

When you were a child, were there were books you never wanted to return to the library? There were three books like that for me. I bought one of them a few years back, and I bought the other two tonight. You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere. I was a repeat offender with this…