There’s not much to note (still stalling on house projects, still shopshopshopping in 32 tabs), I do have a few pictures. (Yay, a break from the novels!) A bit of truth in this bumper sticker I spied while out with Mom:   What seems to be a lovely place to perch in the walled garden [...]

Knobby’s fixing someone’s Apple Mac Mini, so we ended up searching out the locally owned mom-and-pop-ish Apple store today to get some RAM for it. PixyObservation:  Way too many Prius cars (Priuses, Prii, I don’t care) in the parking lot.  Way too many “obama” stickers on them.  And all of the customers were old.  We [...]

Alright, y’all.  Knobby DID purchase his new Audi S7 yesterday. You know going into this that I was a bit skeptical — as most probably are when having to trade or buy a car.  Used to the usual “car dealer” games and whatnot that go with the stereotypical dealership.  Well.  Yesterday, there were no tricks [...]

Hey there, hi there, ho there. I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day weekend festivities. Me, I’m getting some enjoyment about just. how. foolish. I was to ever assume I’d get that hallway painted.  You know, that day long ago when I vowed it would happen because I wrote that it would. Goals.  HA! [...]

I might have jinxed the roof when I wrote about it in the last entry. I quote myself:  ”Lord knows I’ll be woken up at the crack of dawn again” . . .and . . . well, it was SORT of true. But not completely. 7:30 this morning.  Wake up vaguely to something going on [...]

Okay okay okay! Enough with the dirty looks and side-eye.  I know I know I know, somehow “tomorrow” stretched out into a few days. There’s no excuse, really, just . . . it’s been crazyCruise around here.  Workmen, life in general, blahblahblah.  I’m too much of a perfectionist needing positive reinforcement and, above all, approval, [...]

I have a new favorite go-to line. “Surprise!  There’s an AIRPLANE here to SEE YOU!”   Is as good as my old stand-by from “It Happened One Night” . . . “Don’t fall out of any windows!” In case you have no clue, (get thee to the DVD POSTHASTE! For shame!) fast-forward way to the [...]

Today’s BedBath&Beyond advertising gets a side eye/eye roll combination.  A very tricky routine to perform. BEHOLD: So . . . let’s see if I’ve got this right, BedBath&Beyond.  You email me this coupon . . . (1). . . Yet you specifically require I cannot simply have the cashier scan my phone?  You’ve already gone [...]

Sooooooo . . . remember when I promised that the next time I set foot on Biltmore, I wouldn’t so much as touch my camera? Well.  I lied. But it was alright, because we took the Rooftop Tour, so there were a lot of rare looks we won’t get on our regular visits.  Knobby gave [...]

It’s not a record for Jughead. My favorite is Number Five — “We have to pass it (nobamacare) to find out what’s in it”. What’s yours? Let’s play the campaign game. We’ll start off with something easy: “When I am elected, vehicles will run on hope and love!” THE CROWD GOES WILD IN A DELUSION-FILLED [...]