Sometimes the hardest part about this blog, and the most time-consuming portion, are the elegant photo illustrations that accompany each post. We’ve already established that I have resorted to “borrowing” heavily from the internet, in the manner that Mr. Krabs borrows, i.e. (to turn a Latin phrase) without permission. I try, where I can, to […]

Was it just yesterday morning I realized I passed my 20-year anniversary at Pat’s Screen Printing without fanfare? It was some recent morning, as I was lying here among cat(s), mulling over topics of my life with which to regale you, and I realized I started work at Pat’s Screen Printing in October 1998. That’s […]

Instead of blogging this morning, I watched kittens on Animal Planet’s Too Cute. Then, in an attempt at not-really reverse psychology I decided to do my morning chores first, and then I could blog with the remaining time. Well, now there is no remaining time. It’s 9 a.m. and I’ve already forgotten the first thing […]

  Perhaps (perhaps not) you recall me lamenting the other day that my Suave Kids shampoo had switched pictures from a fun elephant to a rather ugly octopus. Well, octopi (which the internet just now tells me is the wrong plural, because it’s not Latin, it’s Greek, so it should be octopodes — or octopuses […]

I believe this is Day 60 for me as a blogger, and my thoughts are as disorganized as the rest of me this morning. I am realizing I would do better — and possibly be more coherent — if I could manage my blogging later in the day. I am not one of these people […]

As a kid, I indulged in comic books. Not any of the Marvel or other superheroes so prominent today; I focused mostly on Richie Rich, with some Archies and Casper, the Friendly Ghost. I don’t recall a single one of these comics now, but inside some of them were page-long stories, and those I remember […]

I’m feeling more Andy Rooney than Mickey Rooney these days. It could be my cold. It could be January. It could just be me. Anyway, here’s what’s on my mind this morning: insurance. No, not health insurance — well, that’s always on my mind, the entire health industry is, but that’s not getting solved this […]

Day 5 of the New Year, and I am not feeling any improved over T Minus One (Dec. 31). I made an appointment with a naturopath for Monday morning, although I’m wondering if I’m going to be serious about following any recommendation she might make. Many years ago, she told someone I know to wear […]

Word of warning: insomnia-fueled rant to follow. Or maybe it’s just a prolonged whine. I slept through my prime blogging time again, after being awake from somewhere around 11:30 p.m. past 4 a.m. Maybe I should have tried blogging then, but I was trying to sleep. And I was feeling my cold seep down into […]