Monthly Archive: June 2001
my phantom menace
Where is it written that when you have a problem and ask someone else to help you with it, and that problem involves electronics of some kind… that it will immediately vanish once the other person takes some time to...
i had no idea
Excerpt from a food writer’s article: Pardon a cranky aside, but please notice that I said it “brings up” the question. I did not say it “begs” the question. Too many writers and speakers these days are using “begs the...
it’s pouring
Just one bad thing after another. I found out that the disbursement of our 401(k) money was held up by fine print that no one bothered to inform us of, and that we had to practically use a microscope to...
8 days of the week
Today’s been a good day, admittedly I’ve been a slave to laundry, but its all good. Bought some nice new things for the house yesterday and baked some goodies today. I’m slowly running out of steam, but managing not to...
movies: but did you like it?
One Game Dame Normally I don’t like any of the Washington Post’s movie reviews, but this one made me chuckle. Excerpts… Awesomely vacant, “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” stars Angelina Jolie’s lips and breasts and, in a much smaller role, the...