The more you know, the more you know you don’t really know at all. Except if you’re a scientist, in which case you arbitrarily dismiss everything that can’t be measured, tested and experimented. Until, that is, you find a way to experiment on the subject or you write a paper expounding millennia-old tenets as new…
Auto Recucitation
The li’l white car, she ain’t what she used to be. The monster I’ve been driving technically still runs, but she’s definitely been sick. She was overheating in a trip of less than half a mile. Older daughter’s boyfriend (the only decent mechanic in the family) took her apart to look tonight. The final diagnosis? …
Time Travel Is Not For Wussies
My bank has instigated time travel. It charged me NSF fees when I was not overdrawn. I called them on it. Their response was, only slightly paraphrased: “Well it was going to be overdrawn.” Which was slightly true. After they charged me $80 for two invalid NSF fees I was definitely overdrawn – which in…
Accomplished Lyre
Today was an ambitious day in some respects. I spent the morning cleaning the kitchen, making homemade bread and putting dinner in the crock pot. It wasn’t a spectacular day in terms of health but I needed to be on my feet because it hurts like heck to stay in bed. I also tackled some…
All fucked up and nowhere to go
For the record, let me say this. I am SICK AND TIRED of being SICK. Or hurt, or whatever the hell is going on. After getting back from the surgery it was the creeping crud, probably the flu on a bender through my body. FINALLY kicked that and ended up with a particularly nasty UTI. …