Rescuing Daylight

As I awoke at what a mere two days ago would have been a completely unreasonable 4:20 rather than this morning’s more acceptable (but still early) 5:20, after staying up “late” because it felt “normal,” I would like to lodge yet another complaint about this nonsense of time shifting. The Washington Post tells me there […]

All We Need is Music, Music, Music

The music department at Western Not State Not College is shouldering the brunt of proposed cuts to the liberal arts curriculum, although there are efforts to make sure this doesn’t happen without a fight. Like the fight song for the college, I mean university, which last I knew still got played (in non-covid years) by […]

The Seeds of Destruction

Today it’s plants that have me depressed. Inside, mostly, but my spirits are crushed as inexorably as Lynn’s front garden, beset by pound upon pound of ice slid from the roof. At one point I fancied myself quite the green thumb, although this didn’t stem (get it?) from any great knowledge of plants. It was […]

For Whom the Booth Tolls

Once upon a time, I was young (it’s true!). I was young but I thought I was relatively grown up, being in the sixth grade and all. Being in the sixth grade, I had a reading book, and in this reading book was a selection from The Phantom Tollbooth, which I dutifully read as it […]

A Big Ol’ Heart

Friday did not go as planned, as is frequently the case, but the case rarely involves contact with three different veterinary services nearly simultaneously. You may recall, Na Ki’o was not moving very well, and I got a Thursday morning appointment at his usual clinic but with a new veterinarian — an appointment that didn’t […]

Steaming About STEM

The world is a changing place, which I’m sure is all for the better, except for the part where none of it feels better. Here locally, we have a liberal arts college, I mean university, busily abandoning the liberal arts. I was going to write about this a month ago, but I thought I would […]

Cats as Cats Can

I didn’t mean to go AWOL on everyone. In fact, I was halfway through an entry yesterday, one that will keep, when I paused to take a cat to a veterinarian in an encounter that just put me off for the rest of the day. Over a year ago, while waiting in a dermatologist’s outer […]

Jeepin’ With Janelle

I believe we’ve established I generally don’t know what I doing, technologically at least, when it comes to this blog, particularly after WordPress thought it was a great idea to switch to “blocks,” whatever they may be. Some of you have been kind enough to post comments after you’ve read an entry, and while I […]

Burned: The Steamed Vinegar Edition

Previously on Garbanzo Beans for Breakfast: Lynn used the internet to burn cheese. Meanwhile, plumbers are converging on the new house on Riverwalk Drive. There are many decisions to make when having a house built, and we may have been the project that broke our contractor. In the aftermath of our house he thought that […]

Burned: The Cheese Edition

Somewhere in her shoulder surgery convalescence, Lynn was allowed near the internet, which is not always a good idea. Now, the only reason Lynn is in Gunnison at all is due exclusively to the internet, her having used it to find my website devoted to Stargate SG-1 and me having read her Stargate materials via […]