You know that earsplitting screech that small children love?

When My Son The Hoarder moved into his own place, we cleaned his former room as best we could and then called a cleaning service. Two extremely hard-working ladies came and worked in there for an hour, mostly getting grime off walls and woodwork.

If you don’t know how to wipe a hard drive you can always take it apart and smash the platters with a hammer. Then dispose of the pieces in two or three separate trash pickups. That should take care of it.

I’d do that except that my old phones have never been worth anything on a trade-in. :)

Or.... you could just use iTunes on your computer to do all the moving you want.

Romaine has always been disgusting. All crunch and no flavor.

My husband isn’t a lawyer and he still has every phone he’s ever owned. There’s always some Real Good Reason why he can’t recycle them.

I copy edit for a living (among many other things) and I don’t care whether the people whose writing I read use one space or two. However, I was taught two spaces and for my own writing I’m sticking with it.

Looks like they’re getting slammed today.

It might help those pathetic “incel” guys.

Isaac Asimov sort-of-kind-of had human-robot sex in The Naked Sun.

Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I saw a tick, but they were resilient little devils when we were picking them up all over.

Tape it down? The tick will just crawl right out from under the tape.

In days gone by, presidents had residences they called the “Summer White House.” Summers in DC are miserable and in the days before the White House got air conditioning the presidential families got out of town just like everyone else who could afford to.

It was really an eye opener. My parents were both prudes and “the birds and the bees” were never discussed with me or my brothers. I don’t know what I would have done without that book.

My mom was born in 1929, so what she was never taught about women’s anatomy would fill a book. And it did. :)

In the Los Angeles area you can go to Porto’s to get the best Cuban coffee.

I was going through a box of kitchen miscellany years ago and found a small ceramic bowl and a lid from a ceramic teapot that fit together perfectly. Now the teapot is on a shelf in the kitchen holding silk flowers and the bowl and lid became my salt cellar. Works perfectly even though I don’t keep a specialized spoon…

I have every edition of that book, starting with that original pamphlet, which was published when I was in college.

I listen to audiobooks and Great Courses on my iPod.