My DVR piles up, then when I’m sick, get a long weekend, or new episodes stop for a few weeks (December, spring, etc.), I catch up. Sometimes, if there’s a really intense arc in a show, I’ll save up the episodes, then binge when I get a chance.

I used to keep an empty plastic drink cup, like a heavy duty slurpee cup in the console, then hand it back to whichever child was ready to spew. Usually it was the younger one, so I would seat him behind the passenger seat, so I could hold the cup under his mouth and keep driving until I could pull over.

Watching Babette’s Feast was the only time I seriously considered trying turtle soup.

Yes. Also regular attendance at multiple meetings every week, where it’s duly noted who didn’t make it that day, who wasn’t prepared/didn’t study, who isn’t dressed appropriately, etc.

I’m pretty sure there was a recent study to the effect that getting chilled would temporarily lower your immunity, making it more likely that you would catch a cold during that time.

This is why I’ll pay extra for exit rows or front rows.

I have a 10-year-old Dyson that runs like new. Love it. Best vacuum I’ve ever had.

I have a 10-year-old Dyson that runs like new. Love it. Best vacuum I’ve ever had.

Yeah, no. Companies settle when they know the publicity is going to kill them, but they mostly settle because they don’t want to pay for a trial they’re going to lose. A trial for a large company can easily cost several million dollars. It can be worth it if the company believes that they’re going to win and set a…

Per a law blog I follow, there’s a “contract of carriage” that sets different standards for a passenger who has already been boarded and seated, as opposed to someone still waiting to board.

The sad truth is that dead victims can’t be witnesses

I worked for a divorce lawyer, and I’m going to heartily disagree.

The simplest way to handle it is to find out if one of your neighbor’s is Mormon, then take over their place and emergency supplies.

They have infants Benadryl. Here’s a link to a dosing chart from a pediatric group:

My pediatrician recommended Benadryl for children before flights. It eases the pressure in the ears, and tends to make them a bit sleepy.

This was my favorite book of 2016.

This was my favorite book of 2016.

No, I’m not kidding. I’ve studied German and Japanese, and spoken Japanese was much easier for me than German.

I didn’t see it because the scene was giving me flashbacks and I had to look away.

Spanish vs. Mandarin for ease of speaking seems to depend on the person learning it. Spanish is loaded with irregular verbs, plus the gender stuff. From people I’ve known that have studied those languages, the people that have a good ear and can pick up the tones needed to speak Mandarin say that it’s easier to speak…

Yes, I know. I also know that my credit score was not over 800 on any of them. I had been rebuilding my credit since I finally got rid of my (way too many problems to go into) ex was finally out, so I’d been checking it before I went looking for a new place. It was in the low 700s on Transunion and Equifax, although I…

I live in the SF Bay Area. This is my daily commute, if you add a couple of Teslas, BMW i3s and i8s, Porsches, food trucks, and giant SUVs driven by people who can barely see over the steering wheel.