• Uncategorical Weirdness

    The Country Quiz

    Currently making its way around the blogosphere: the Country Quiz. Let’s see: You’re Thailand! Calmer and more staunchly independent than almost all those around you, you have a long history of rising above adversity. Recent adversity has led to questions about your sexual promiscuity and the threat of disease, but you still manage to attract a number of tourists and admirers.  And despite any setbacks, you can really cook a good meal whenever it’s called for. Good enough to make people cry. Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid Woo-hoo! I have a bit of a rep, but great…

  • Good and Joyful Things

    Posies for Rosie

    Looks like by about now Rosie will be making an honest woman of her girlfriend at last. This was supposed to happen around 1 o’clock local time, but you know how sometimes things run on “Wedding Time.” Mazeltov! Congrats! (Civil disobedience by civil servants – woohoo!)

  • Clan: McTiVo - Home Improvement

    Clean Sweep

    Yeah, I like this show…I’ve been watching it for a while now. And slowly, gradually and imperceptibly, we’ve gradually gotten most of the house cleared out, cleaned up, and organized. The worst areas are now the hidden-from-public view areas: The Big Lair O’ Computers in the basement, and the garage (which isn’t that bad, just needs more shelving and a good cleaning out after the last frost, when I get the rain barrels set up again). And today when we get home, the house will be clean, because we signed up with a cleaning service – one we used several…