Hold onto your seat! There will be two lunar eclipses in April and May—plus a full moon by Congress! Here is April’s news in a nutshell: 4/3: ♪♪ Do I See a Trend? Oh, my dear, don’t you see a trend? No toll-takers at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; the FAA lays [...]

3/2: A pall falls over 99% of the land. The sequester begins. Congress leaves town early for Sequester Semester Break. 3/2: Some people will do anything to avoid changing diapers. Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer, decrees no more working from home! In an effort to assuage dissension among workers, she opens Romper Room for Robots. 3 [...]

The day after New Year’s, I submitted to MyHusbandTheEngineer the Top Ten functions my iApparati won’t do anymore. After the sighing and eye-rolling (his) abated, he focused on the list, which was a pile of yellow stickies. “If you’d taken these off the monitor months ago so you could actually see the warnings, you could [...]

NOW, I LOVE CHRISTMAS as much as the next person. But does “Merry Christmas” start sounding like an oxymoron as the season progresses? A juxtaposition of incongruities? This year I got a head start. We went on vacation in November to a place where Bubbles and Louie would have to spend more time in quarantine than [...]

I try to post a funny story biweekly that bears some resemblance to the events as they happened. Well, yours truly, aka the supreme Luddite, just upgraded from a five-year-old desktop computer to a brand new laptop which I blissfully thought would make everything I know portable. Silly me—I never gave a thought to the [...]