Los Angeles? Stay inside and do nothing strenuous till the end of October.

You don’t live in a hot, dry place, obviously.

This is probably an Old Person Problem, but if I leave the insert in the pot, chances are good that I will forget the contents that are still in the pot after I’ve served a meal worth and the pot will sit there all night.

I’m glad to hear that. Its Twitter account is still active.

Circa notebook and Cross 3-color pen.

Three of us were hired at the same time at my last job. All three of us left at about the same time 5 years later because our boss was a paranoid nutjob who had kissed up so long and so vigorously as to be pretty much untouchable. One of my co-workers documented every slimy thing the boss had done and complained to…

My oldest brother was a scrawny, knock-kneed little weenie when he was a kid. I spent our shared childhood pulling bullies off him (sometimes literally). It made me pretty bully-resistant, because it was clear that if I stood up to a bully, the bully would almost always back down.

Someone I know thinks the only thing one can do with “excess” money is take it to the racetrack.

All well and good if you’ve only got one pet. We have four cats, one of whom is shaped roughly like a rugby ball. Only one. Now tell me how we get her to slim down while the others eat normally. 

Oh, how lovely! I hope I’ll get to see the Hawaiian volcanoes again. We’ve seen cinder cones in the Owens Valley but it’s not the same thing as far as I’m concerned.

I think they both would have been delighted.

Old joke: What’s worse than finding a worm in an apple? Finding only half a worm.

My parents lived in the Louisville area, and as it happened, Thunder Over Louisville was going on during the weekend of both their memorial services. So both my parents went out with a bang.

I wanted to see a volcano most of my life. Been fascinated by them ever since I was a little girl. In 2016 we went to Hilo, and after we got checked into our hotel room I stepped out on the balcony and THERE WAS MAUNA KEA. That was two days before my birthday. On my birthday (66th) I got a stylized tribal tattoo of a…

You forgot to mention that when someone drags one across the floor, it deafens everyone in the vicinity.

I mean LANDLINE service, not VoIP. Plain old telephone service. Best I can do is get a Caller ID box that has a blocker in it.

It will work just fine till someone steps on the snake.

.... but what about our landline phone?

If you get an item through interlibrary loan, it will probably come with a wrapper of some kind, giving the details of the lending library and where they sent it to. Do not, for heaven’s sake, rip that wrapper off and throw it away, no matter how much of a nuisance you think it is. That’s how both libraries keep track…

Well, now #BronxZooCobra will have a friend.