Category: Miscellaneous Mockery

I’m still cat-sitting. I’ve paid close attention to His every move upstairs, and I truly didn’t see or hear this cat pee all day and night yesterday. I was ready to take Him to the vet until FINALLY He voided His bladder at 2 a.m. People, the joy, the relief I felt. We have bonded…

As of today, both of the Chicago baseball teams are going to be in postseason play. If one of them plays a wildcard game the week I’m there (30th – 6th), then I will definitely visit a sports bar and enjoy the game, and possibly I will participate in some light rioting after.

My vacation to Chicago hasn’t even started and I am packing my bags. It seems I’m going to have an extra vacation before my Chicago vacation. A Cat I know needs a friend to sit with Him, and feed Him, and attend to His Great and Masterful Chonkiness for about five days. I need some…

A random Reddit rabbit-hole introduced me to the practice of Jeep ducking. Evidently people, usually Jeep owners, carry toy ducks with them, and when they spot another Jeep in a parking lot, they leave a duck on the hood. The recipient takes the new duck and adds it to their collected ducks behind their windshield.…

This week the glasses went from this: …to this: And I think I am done. Am I done? Yes, I’m done. The bottom of the glass on the left wouldn’t make any more sense if the proportions were correct.

It seems as if there’s a rocket launch every day now that all the nations want to deploy satellites. I happened to catch a European launch the other day. It was a little different in some ways, not so in others. The outside of the Vega rocket. It has a face with a little French…

Now, I’ve seen a number of YouTube videos lately that show clouds of hummingbirds fighting over nectar. Usually this nectar is in multiple red feeders all hung from the same frame. Usually I call AI-BS on this, because it doesn’t match the reality I see in my backyard. But I can’t say that TheCornellLab is…

This week the glasses went from this: …to this:

Recently – was it this year? Last year? – after I realized the binoculars put the moon in ideal focus, I focused our good binoculars on every full moon. Gary priced telescopes. I wanted a telescope where there was a dial and you spun the dial to “Jupiter” and the gears would hum and ta-da,…

Well, sadly, the Up series* is coming to an end. *If you are unfamiliar with the long-running series (like 63 years long-running): it re-visits a group of British schoolchildren every seven years. Go here to Wikipedia, or here to see how much Mom and I enjoyed it. They consider the quote, “Give me a child…