They’ve gotten worse, in fact.  Our most reliable printer is an ancient HP laser jet workhorse that is 15 years old if it’s a day.  The new printers they’re giving us are plastic pieces of crap. 

Jesus, that’s borderline creepy and exactly right! I spent the entire three day weekend reading them. I did almost nothing else. I bought the first on last Thursday and I’m in the middle of the seventh one.

In my old dentist’s office, they called the dentists by their first name. 

So I spent the weekend reading a series of books set in England. Due to the occupation of most of the characters, they ended up spending a lot of time in the hospital recovering from their misadventures. More than once there was mention “of [a hospital visitor] was eating [the patient’s] grapes.” I thought it was…

Christ, that’s horrifying.  And I say that a person who likes hot things.

This is making want to get into the Sims again and that would be just a terrible idea, what with my job and relationships and things. 

There are approximately 8 million variables so people just have to find the way that works best for them. 

I live in terror of keeping restaurant employees at work after the restaurant has closed. Most of the time, I won’t go to a place any later than an hour before they close.  This is from a past life working in retail where customers just would not leave the freaking store.

Have we learned nothing from SyFy?

Kenji Lopez-Alt did some testing and determined that putting the eggs into already boiling water actually produced the easiest peeling eggs of all of the methods.

When I was a little kid people called grated parm in the green can “dago cheese.”

It’s usually bigger around and shorter than a typical baguette. And the crust isn’t as crispy.

Yeah, that’s a show that hasn’t aged well.  

Christ almighty - I’m sorry you had to go through that. Gross.

I use Facebook to keep track of my relatives, many of them older. There is no way that they would ever go to Twitter or even really Instagram. (A couple of them have never figured out how to post pictures on Facebook.)

Music venues are the places where I’ve been most often and egregiously groped. Usually all it took was moving away from the person. I mean, I never felt personally threatened but it’s also possible that I was an idiot.

Yes, you did.  I am also old and I was told to never leave a drink unattended in public.  And to this day, I do not.  Back then it was called “slipping a mickey.”  Or something goofy like that. But it definitely is not a new thing. 

I find that a book takes about a month, if I only listen to it when I’m commuting. A couple of times I have blown through my credits and had to buy some, but I don’t recall that it was egregiously expensive.

Amazon owns Audible

Audio books have saved my sanity. I used to listen to NPR during my commute but any kind of news is incredibly upsetting these days so about a year ago, I signed up to Audible. I tend to only listen to books I’ve already read so that if my attention wanders, I won’t be too lost.