I once went on a Star Trek Convention cruise. I developed a bronchial infection that left me too sick to take part in many activities, and unable to leave the ship for the port excursions. I spent most of the trip bundled up in our cabin - a tiny room with no window and no TV.

Jesuschrist, if ever there was a need for a vaccine passport, it would be for a cruise!

Liz Cheney seems like a good choice, but the only thing she’s really done is stand up to the rest of the GOP about Trump’s power over the party. She voted for everything that was Trumpian before the January 6th insurrection. Yeah, she’s got a conscious now, but what does that really mean when it comes to upcoming…

Say what now? Meghan McCain is a nutjob.

I sometimes say I sound like bacon in the frying pan. Snap, crackle, pop.

I intensely dislike this man, but I applauded CNN for having him on. Having a legitimate conservative voice on the panels went a long way to actually trying to have the “fair and balanced” profile that other *ahem* news channels claimed to have. He was never lobbed softballs or “gotcha” questions, and was allowed to…

Oh, boo-hoo. Shoulda thought about that sooner.

I hear you. Since we both work from home, it was already a little claustrophobic, then Covid came along and we couldn’t even get out of the apartment to go anywhere. “Crabby” doesn’t begin to describe my mental state sometimes.

Mr. BK and I live in a small one-bedroom apartment with three cats, and my husband is a bit of a hoarder, so we don’t have any room. But if it’s 100 degrees at night in your bedroom, you shove things around to make room for a queen-sized mattress in the living room, where the blessed AC is.

Our bedroom gets so hot that there have been nights when we’d sleep on a mattress in the living room, where the AC is.

I reuse zip top bags. I wash them with the dishes and tuck them over tall glasses or bottles to dry.

The whole story is turning into a nail-biter.

My favorite is “You shouldn’t feel that way.”

Holy crap. I didn’t even have the sound up that loud, and that was deafening. 

Yep. Snack bags used to open easily when you pulled the sealed flap on the back one way while you pulled the front the opposite way. POP! Nice neat opening on top.

And diapers. Disposable diapers were developed that were supposed to decompose in sunlight. Worked just dandy in landfills where each new layer is subsequently bulldozed over layers already there.

And an unbelievable lack of self-awareness!

Store in a sealed container in the fridge for up to five days.

I was never all that familiar with the word “shart” until our 22-year old cat became...well...somewhat gassy, and began alternating between constipation and diarrhea. The vet had us put him on a regular dose of laxative to even him out, but that’s resulted in the occasional...shart.

And a mountain range with a ski resort and an unclimbable mountain peak, a coastline with a beach, a harbor, a lighthouse and a fishing industry, a tony island community, farmland, a recreational lake, and a National Park-level forest. I may have left something out.