Most people who are tall enough are probably OK just getting a standard, not comfort, height toilet. Taller toilets are a scourge perpetrated by Big Plumbing to make you think your toilet is fancier, all the while your GI system grinds to a halt. I insisted on a standard height toilet when we did a bathroom remodel,…

Most people who are tall enough are probably OK just getting a standard, not comfort, height toilet. Taller toilets…

Sitting up straight is the opposite of what this is supposed to be helping. You’re supposed to be making a more acute angle between your torso and your legs because that muscle releases more easily or the last bit of your intestinal tract straightens more. So, if you weren’t propping your legs up, you could try to get…

Sitting up straight is the opposite of what this is supposed to be helping. You’re supposed to be making a more…

With the risk that it puts me in nutty company, I have a food sensitivity that I developed as an adult. There are a lot of websites claiming an allergy or sensitivity to the substance is fake, with chemists and doctors trying to allege that chemically, a sensitivity or allergy isn’t possible and it’s psychosomatic.…

I love that there is a German word for this. A long word, but a word nonetheless.

I’m an only child, but I still got super good at it, and can tell even now if there sounds like an extra person on our landline or on conference calls.

Take it from me, your therapist is bummed about the world these days, too.

phhfft “your vision of the classic valentine”...

This makes me really thankful for my neighbor who keeps his little plane (not airworthy) in his garage. I think I’ve seen it in the driveway once in 14 years. I’m almost certain nothing else has ever parked in their garage.

“After you’re irresponsible....” Get outta here with that bullsh1t.

Not using the trick would be an insult to his dear old dead dad.

I also did the 458 and an Aston at Exotics. I think SpeedVegas (which appears to be south of the Strip) built their track so they could advertise the ability to get the cars to the highest speeds. Which is really a dumb thing for the whole clientele and mindset out there. I liked the experience at Exotics, but I…

They are fun. If you have the money, go to a professional place that has access to a real track. I’ve done rentals on Spa, Nurburgring, and a different place in Vegas, and manufacturer events at a few in the United States. Just go and have fun, but be incredibly safe. There’s a lot of dumb stupid people who don’t know…

Yeah - I don’t know why you need to submerge the jar - just run the tap up until it’s quite hot, try to run the water only over the lid, and so you maximize the expanding metal, without affecting the temperature (or expansion) of anything else. This is what I do if my husband isn’t around for me to make it his…

Here’s the thing... she is going through a divorce. That can put even a normally mentally healthy person out on the edge... even at a moment’s notice. You couldn’t possibly effectively keep tabs on everyone’s interpersonal relationships and ensure that they weren’t recently broken up, breaking up, fighting, estranged,…

DC burbs: 73 Tuesday, 70 Wednesday, 33 (hi) Thursday with rain, wind and snow squalls (white-out in the afternoon for a half hour), 35 (hi) Friday with wind, 63 today, 70 tomorrow. The dog has already had a couple of ticks. The squirrels and birds seem thoroughly confused, but at least it hasn’t been very cold.

I’d love it if package after package from Amazon started arriving at the White House to deliver this book.

Reading these is uplifting. The same way that watching a Hooter’s Pageant once made me feel so much better that I had less cellulite than most of those women.

And that they are the ultimate arbiters of whether you are doing your job correctly. Dance for me, monkeys!

The Today Show this morning had Nicole Wallace return to Erie PA which had voted Democrat for the past 50 years, and went for Trump. And those folks were doubling down on their support, though a couple of them said that they wished he tone down the ancillary pontificating. The one woman wanted the borders closed to…

I’m about your age and wanted to drive so badly (which my parents supported) that they drove me to my driver’s test on the morning of my 16th birthday, which was a couple of hours before my grandfather’s funeral. A lot of kids in our current neighborhood wait years to learn to drive. I don’t get it. It’s a…