Pretty sure I remember this idea also showing up in an episode of BLACK MIRROR. The spousal unit and I streamed the series towards the start of the Plague Times.

This. Decades ago a friend of mine was one of the official photographers for a presidential visit to his town. He got a look (but not a photograph) of the armament that the Secret Service keeps hidden away but virtually within arms reach. Not just automatic weapons, but anti-tank weapons. A massive show of force to…

I wonder if it’s a gel seat instead of the usual foam padding.

I’m an early riser. Every weekday morning my clock alarm goes off at 5AM. I lie there for a few moments listening to the NPR newsreader give the headlines of the top stories. I do this before I get up. Because if our President has, you know, started a war with North Korea, or launched ICBMs at China, I’d like to know…

Yeah, maybe that’s right. I hope so.

*sigh* There are several pages I “like” but “unfollow” on FB because the volume of traffic is just too high. Typically these are groups I belong to. So my FB newsfeed contains the stuff I want to see in real-time: friends, NPR, CNN, etc. But once or twice a day I go over to the Groups button and spend a few minutes…

I may be ancient almost beyond belief, but I can tell you that as a kid I would have thought these were lame. Nerf guns that look like dinosaurs? Better to make them look like plausible real guns and slap “Jurassic Park Security” stickers on the sides.

If “the deep state is working to undermine President Trump” means “career bureaucrats are trying to keep the country running despite everything this administration can do” then... yep.

You got competition.

I wasn’t a big fan of the second and third series, but ROBOTECH made me a Macross fan for life. In 1985 I was in graduate school, and teaching an evening class two or three times a week. I’d set my alarm to get up at 0630 - uncromly early for me at the time - just to turn on the television and watch the daily 30…

We have Doctor Who - and the fact that The Graham Norton Show used to come on right after it on Friday nights on BBC America - to thank for discovering this wonder.

Same with me and the Spousal Unit. It’s the only talk show we watch. Esquire Magazine once said that watching The Graham Norton Show was like being a fly on the wall of the world’s greatest cocktail party. That’s pretty spot on.

I’ve owned a couple of Hondas. My spousal unit has owned a Toyota. But we’re each now on our second Subaru, having both driven our prior Subarus for about eighteen years. She: Outback. Me: WRX. So I’m going with that. We live in the Denver metro area, so no big surprise. We’ve had good luck with Subarus, having driven…

Are we placing bets on who or what the girl really is?

Before the Plague Times, I was working out six times a week, alternating cardio with resistance. I especially miss working out with my long-time gym buddies in the weight room. But the pandemic has had an unexpected benefit.

My spousal unit and I slept apart for a couple of years, until she got a CPAP machine and it stopped her snoring. (Which was like... Have you ever seen the Three Stooges? No, really. Like that.) Yeah, you’re right, it leaks from time to time, blowing a cold breeze over my face and neck. We put a pillow upright between…

I’m with you on this. I’ve been sleeping next to the spousal unit since before we were married almost thirty-seven years ago. Not going to stop now. Us two. And a cat. Sometimes two cats.

I’m with you on this. For this to be legit, she would have had to have not only *never* heard anyone pronounce “microwave”, but also the prefix “micro” nor the word “wave”.

Yet another euphemism - possibly two of them - that I’ve never heard before... back to the Urban Dictionary.

The definition of a “homeowner” is someone who is on the way to the hardware store.