After his selection as Pope we quickly learned that Benedict XVI had been a member of the Wehrmacht as a teenager. That was put aside by most as an artifact of history; in 1944-1945 there weren’t very many 16-18 year-old kids in Germany able to escape military service in the Nazi Army. Newly-selected Francis I, …
The miserable water flow I mentioned yesterday turned out to be a leaking hot water heater tank. We have two 40-gallon tanks and one of them was burbling its contents away on the ground (it’s down under the house, not indoors). Called the solar guys yesterday evening and they said they’d be here in the …
I used to read about people who’d stepped off curbs and broken their feet, twisted their ankles or otherwise injured themselves and thought “there has to be more to it than that.” Not anymore. I heard water running through the pipes in the house over the weekend even when there was no water running anywhere, …
It’s a good thing we’ve got a dryer. If I had to hang clothes outside today the humidity would keep them wet for another two days. It’s been pouring since 9:00 PM last night. The dog made it through the night in my bedroom with the door closed without incident. That’s a relief.
Or that’s what it felt like when I was done, anyway. I thought Abby was done with this, but two of the last three nights she’s left calling cards on the carpet. That’s a pleasant thing to wake up to, believe you me. Then I turned on the computer and the keyboard connection was no …
The Huffington Post commits journalism; world applauds. It’s done several video mashups of national Republicans scorning the effects of the sequester and local TV news outlets detailing just what the effects are in their cities and towns. Recovery efforts following a tornado in Atlanta are being drained of federal help because of sequestration related cuts. …
The entire Republican party has OCD.
Today I went to the grocery store and put a couple of sacks on the passenger seat when I came out. Lo and behold, the “Passenger Airbag Off” light that I talked about yesterday went out. This implies to me that it’s a sensor problem rather than an airbag problem. The internet tells me that …
You know the rubber mounting kit you attach to your bumper and then you screw the license plate to that? Somehow I managed to hook the bottom of the one on the front of the car to a parking curb when we went out this morning. I got home and discovered that one of the …
I just got the four-disk boxed set of Firefly from the library. I know what I’ll be watching the next two or three nights. I also added a Random Quote thing to the right sidebar for fun. If it slows up page loading, please advise.