Blood and gears.

Yeah, I could have said “Blood, Sweat, and Gears,” which I think I fell in love with back when I was a kid (thirty something years ago). But that’s so… cliche, don’t you think? We had a busy weekend, away from keyboards and blogs and even our house. We did have: Birthday cake. Swimming. Driving. […]

There Otto be a way

My dear friend Mir is welcoming somebody we (the internet) only know as “Otto” to her home this weekend to, among other things, fix her vapor lock and seal her driveway. *wink wink, nudge nudge, know-what-I-mean?* Anyway, since Otto is a bit of a mystery, I thought it was high time somebody did a little […]

Find your own handbasket, this one’s full

Damn, I’m a fairly gloomy person (at least on line, in person? I’m a laugh a minute.  Really) but this is getting ridiculous. Let’s recap, just for a moment, what is flooding in my computer this morning: Israel is bombing the crap out of Lebanon, and probably Palestine, too, when they get a moment. And […]