It tells you far more about the state of my boredom (and lungs) than anyone needs to know that I have with great and monumental effort learned that a person burns roughly eight calories per minute while coughing violently. Since coughing for one minute poses no effort at all—indeed, I can easily cough my lungs […]
Ever since I moved into this green and rainy climate, I’ve said that anything you leave on the ground in the evening will have sprouted and grown into many more of itself by the next morning. Here’s proof, from the dog park.
I do not personally know the dog, but if he hung around for very […]
Choose divinipotence over foppotee-ness! Adopt a word today! (Site has appallingly long loading time, but it’s worth the wait.)
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Perhaps I shall labascate into ptochology when I grow up. Wheee!!
Snaotheus and KrisDi came up for Grandma’s 92nd birthday last Saturday, which thrilled her beyond belief, such that she’s saying this was her best birthday ever (of course, she probably can’t remember last year’s, and certainly not the year before’s). We took a big bag of Chinese food over, a strawberry shortcake (one piece that […]
Grandma kills me, she really does. She’s five days away from NINETY-TWO, and she still feels guilty for the way she treated some boy in high school. I mean, really. Everybody’s a nutcase in high school. It’s part of the initiation rite.
Nevertheless, she tells me this story with terrible shame and sorrow (the second or […]