Vulva, vulva, vulva. Not vagina. OK?

As federal agencies, the FAA & NTSB have to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act when they engage in rulemaking. There needs to be a reviewable, appealable record that supports their decisions. AFAIK, evacuation tests to date have utilized flight attendants rather than a cross section of actual passengers to…

In my experience, drunks are worse. Although usually quiet and hung over the next morning.

Delaware North is the NPS concessioner. I.e., it’s a private company that has a contract to operate hotels and lodges in many national parks.

Wow, over a year later, and still only 2G service where I live. Color me underwhelmed.

Yay menopause!!!!

Mmmmm . . . no. Too hard to pour a neat, thin stream out of a mason jar, and the dressing gets into the screw threads, messes up the lid, and runs down the outside, getting your hands oily and leaving a ring wherever you set it down. Instead I re-use an empty red wine vinegar bottle. Same concept re shaking before…

I’m outspoken, love public speaking and I like to act, too (so I’m hardly shy), but I am a definite introvert, never happier than hiking by myself (with my dogs) or figuring something out on my computer. Hell = going on a trip with 10 other people — even somewhere really interesting — and having to share a room and…

This is the ultimate. It’s called an ostrich pillow.

This is the ultimate. It’s called an ostrich pillow.

I belong to a statewide ebook library and the Navy General library. Between the two, there’s almost always a “free” ebook I want to read. Calibre software is also great, with many formatting and file conversion tools.

Thanks Clovis! My DH also doesn’t see lots of things . . . unfortunately for me, what I miss most when I travel is fresh fruit and veggies, and obviously these things don’t last during trips. (In fact, I can count on getting to throw out all the rotted vegetables from the drawer when I get home.) We don’t have…

Oh, how I wish my husband would assume at least 50% responsibility for inventorying and managing our food supply! I work full time; he is semi-retired. I travel a lot; he’s home all but a few nights/year. A month ago I got home from a two week+ trip in the wee hours one morning. Eight hours later, as I hauled my…

Correct. I’ve worked for one of the aforementioned federal agencies for 26 years. While I did not waive my First Amendment rights the day I was sworn in, I think it’s inaccurate to say, as this article implied, that the Hatch Act protects me. It doesn’t; in fact it constrains what I can do re partisan political…

We’ve got the $20 Amazon model. Be aware that these don’t fit well over some one-piece toilets that are very wide towards the back. The control device sits just to the right of (sorry, southpaws) and under the seat, back towards the hinge, and if the bowl is too wide at this point, the control piece has to sit on…

I’m in the US. The nearest major airport in the closest state to mine is 1500 nautical miles away. The driving distance to the border of the closest states is about 2300 miles, on a two-lane road for all but the first 40 miles. In places that road is gravel-surfaced, and in winter it is seldom plowed, and there are…

The calculator is off by a month at each end of the growing season where I live, i.e. it overestimates the length of our frost-free season by two months. In reality we have about four months between the last and first frost of the calendar year, give or take a few days. And soil temperature is a major issue, because…

Nooooo!!! I tried chilling my bag o’white in the river on a float trip once, but rising waters swept it away. It is really hard to tether those bags with rocks etc. Instead, invest in a quality mesh bag, the kind with loops and handles, and use a knot like a bowline that won’t loosen in water to attach the mesh bag…

As usual, a couple of states, totaling over 20% of US territory, are missing from the map . . . And who uses the color red to indicate good while blue and green are bad?

Exactly. When airline employees try to cite FAA regs and get them exactly back-asswards, is there any hope? And an FAA spokesperson interviewed for the story apparently thinks it’s up to parents to print out the actual regulatory language about separate seats and restraints for children, and carry it with them, in…

Matzo with butter. Mmmmmmmm . . . .