St. Patrick is also credited with writing a great hymn, “The Lorica.” Listen or read more about it at Ransom Road.

The more traditional idea most of us have is something like the CIA using a Samsung TV to spy on people’s conversations. This should have come as no surprise considering last year former U.S. Directory of National Intelligence said, “In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for…

Everyone bemoaning the proposed cuts to worthy programs is hereby requested to snag this opportunity to donate to these organizations from their personal funds. Don’t let your support be merely from your lips or your heart but from your finances.

I got all the way through the test but I credit that mainly to the fact that the last questions were repeats from the first part of the test. If you have already heard the questions when the noise was lower, it is easier to pick out the words the second time around even when the noise is louder.

Started listening to the YouTube link with Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy. Despite the title, “Most Common Disease is Isolation,” it was primarily about gun violence. About halfway into the segment, the SG asked, “what causes people to have so much anger?” He then ties it to “the most common disease is isolation”…

Heh heh. You call getting groped comforting?

I need to change my review of the care tags on clothing as suggested. Right now I typically review the tags as the clothing goes from the washer to the dryer. No fabric softener? Oops. . . too late.

Or put your keys on a carabiner clip and hang them off a belt loop.

I do the same with cilantro but I keep the glass in the refrigerator instead of on the counter.

Growing herbs—parsley, basil, dill—right now in the Aero Garden I got for Christmas.

Hah. I read your last line as “too much gravy.” Must be having some hallucinations of my own. Be well.

Eh, everyone knows you should read your Lifehacker feeds before you check email.

Basically same ingredients as for snow cream so if it didn’t snow in your area, just use rice. Of course, with snow cream you don’t use heat.

Good idea, Kristin, especially in states where the state university requires freshmen students to live on-campus even if said freshman lives in the same city or within reasonable driving distance of the campus. Any tip to make a college education more affordable should be checked out.

Now if the manufacturer would just include the rope. . . .

If you wait 2 seconds for quiet, you’ll never be able to speak because all the other interrupters will have jumped in there and will be talking all over each other.

I talk that way sometimes. Usually happens when I’m around the interrupters and I start thinking I won’t be able to get my words out because I can see the interrupters mentally hoofing the gates until they can get their words in.

Try biking to get where you need to be. Sometimes wheeled vehicles are allowed on a race course whereas cars are not.

Just what I need, more procrastination-inducing stimuli.

Note to self: Add to routine—1) 3 to 4 cups coffee; 2) 3 to 4 bathroom visits