Entries Tagged as 'crisis'

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Who knew my oven timer was so powerful?

…and why doesn’t it work like my TiVo remote?  Wouldn’t that be cool?  "Go eight seconds back in time."  If I had that button the other day, I might have saved myself the horrendous cleanup of flour mixed with oily, yeasty water when the beginnings of a pizza crust dough went horribly wrong all [...]

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Jangly power-pop

I was sitting home yesterday letting my laptop serve up what it wanted out of the 9.7 days’ worth of music it has in its innards, and Bleu’s "DDBDD" came on.
This, of course, brought me right back to the summer of 1993, the last summer I lived in Minneapolis.  I didn’t know it was to [...]

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

A missive from my former cell phone provider

“Theres only one reason to choose a wireless company”
Good thing that reason isn’t spelling.  I can tell you it’s definitely not customer service.

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Typing one-handed

No, not like that.  Pervert.
Like this:

Surgery on finger.  Typing not easy.  Haven’t tried knitting.
More later.

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Comcast is a Four-Letter Word. (No, really.)

We have had three different visits from Comcast techs since late November.  Three.  Two to the insides of our house, which of course requires one of us to wait around during “normal business hours” (read: when we really should be elsewhere) chained to the house so we can let a guy stomp around, twiddle wires, [...]

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

My Childhood Nightmare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-0_p_yefg

This thing would send me screaming from the room.  Damn you, Children’s Television Workshop!

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Dear Ms. T:

Ms. Jill S, late of North P______, MD, currently of South Dimwittery, tenderly made the sweater pictured within. She crafted it with all deliberate speed, congratulating herself on the fact that she finished in plenty of time to post it northwards to be there for the party at your parents’ home. She did [...]

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