Lots snow, at least for Virginia, this weekend. No worries, really, given some last minute scheduling changes, we didn’t have to be anywhere. This was fine since a couple of us were kind of sidelined with nagging colds. Much sledding and driveway shovelling was done, many fresh-baked cookies and bowls of homemade chicken corn soup […]
A local TV station in DC is running a series on breast exams, featuring uncensored breasts this week. The station is going out of it’s way to characterize this bit of programming as daring and “ground-breaking”, as well as prominently featuring naked breasts. I concede that breast cancer awareness and prevention is terribly important, and […]
Maybe we will get something resembling a public option after all; even if there’s a “states can opt out” provision. That kind of pisses me off (given who’s likely to be running my state come January unless the polls shift dramatically in the next week), but honestly, if the eventual health care reforms actually work, […]
I took a long weekend away from the biggest part of the grind; didn’t go much anywhere (except for a little shopping and into the city for a few hours with the eldest for dance class), and spent the time getting some chores done, reading some books, and playing some games. I almost feel rejuvinated, […]
…and it was glorious. Beyond trying to keep the house at a reasonable level of clean and doing the usual Saturday morning shopping, did relatively little that wasn’t recreation-related. Checked out a neat little kebob place in the city and played a few hands of Munchkin, but little in the way of the large, single-use […]
Since Netflix put the newly-remastered version of The Wizard of Oz up for free streaming for 24 hours over the weekend, we added it to the Roku and watched it on Saturday morning. It was the first time I’d seen it in probably 20 years, having previously seen it only on broadcast TV when somebody […]
The week’s been mostly a blur; lots of kid taxi duty, review sessions on training materials for software that hasn’t even made it through preliminary build yet, homework assistance, funeral services, making a nuisance of myself to certain financial institutions, and planning for weekend projects. I’ve honestly been losing track of what day it was […]
…by Friday evening, I’d come to the conclusion that the best remedy for lingering sinus malaise was to just get past it and do something else… In an effort to satiate our bibliophilic tendencies, and because we had some errands in that part of the world anyway, the five of us packed into the family […]
After watching it again (without the assistance of allergy medication), I can definitely say that Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus is all the fun I expected. I mean, where else can you see Debbie Gibson drop the F-bomb, make out with a Japanese oceanographer in a utility closet, punch out a Naval Officer, and do…. […]
