Jeez, I stayed in bed all day - the 1st thing I did was log into Jezebel. I did not even get out of the house until about an hour ago, then I only went off to the shed to make some beads. I am not very good at it and I have no use for the beads so I give them away.

Okay, I will join you guys. From here, every horizontal surface is overwhelmed with stuff. I know that when I start, I will find something I have been looking for for weeks, then I will wander off to another room to put it where it belongs and I will pick up that library book on glass bead making that I have been…

When I was in France visiting my grandfather, he talked a lot about wine; he had a little wine cellar in the basement and he would go to different wineries and buy wine from them in bulk then decant into bottles and store them. He told me that he likes 'Red Table Wine' because he does not have the time to drink good…

Well, you could also go the other way and buy some of that shampoo that makes your grey hair shine (I think is actually dyes it in the ultraviolet ranges so the sun makes it glow - if you overuse it you can become one of the blue-haired ladies). I just discovered it but then I did not start to grey until I was in my…

I am considering not moving because there is a woman who is a checker in the neighborhood Safeway; I always go through her line, even if it is the longest. The other day I showed her the glass rings I made because there was no line and I wanted to say something to her. I have to move because I can't afford the place…

Dang! this was a week too late. My favorite belt came apart at the buckle. The belt itself is pretty complex so the buckle was attached with a separate piece of leather sewn onto the belt. I finally bought some thread and sewed it back together - last week, if I had this to go with, I would have 1) glued the pieces…

Bzzzzt - back to Fox Snooze with you - you simpering twit.

Gawd that was amazing - but for some reason Iva Bittova was screaming in the back of my brain. I melt.....

I could tell immediately they were not in Japan. That one driver though who was steering with her left hand and firing out the window with her right hand seemed a little out of sorts.

I kept hearing the sound of gunshots.. like the snapping of branches or culling the pack.

Verbification is going to librarianize the language.

Where? I would love to know - I live in Seattle and am bored with I can find (especially, since Larry's closed). Just finding someplace that sells bulk Tibetan salt is an ordeal.

I am with you - people would always tell me that I don't know all the salt I am getting, it took me a long time to realize that they and I were on different food planets. I cook my own food; the only cans I open are tomato sauce/paste. I am not a particularly good cook but I like my cooking. I eat vegetables but not…

Shit - 14 years ago I gave my ex one measly share of KO with instructions on how to DRiP, now she has over a hundred shares each of about 5 different stocks, she maxes her 503b and Roth IRA and is buying herself a condo. Sigh, they grow up so fast.

Why don't you come up with a funny 'dongle' joke - be the first cuz no one else has.

The 'romantic' languages have gender: French, Italian, Spanish and so on; it's a thing. Most languages have their own 'thing'

I am starting to pack so the living room bookshelves are empty but here is the mess in the computer room/office. I used to work for Oxford University Press so I have some pretty interesting books (if you are into geeky stuff).

I have been keeping both my computers running all the time for BOINC - and because the Ex-Mrs Grumpy is no longer around to nag me about it.

What I did was re-think beads; I make glass beads and I was worrying about the diameter of hole. A layer of bead-release coats the mandrel made from different sizes of welding rod around which I drip hot glass (2200 F). Trying to think of how to reduce the diameter of the hole, I thought about working in the other…

I found some yoga timers on-line that might work in this case - they are at