The Adventures of Roberta X

      Tam and I went and did it, colds notwithstanding (hers is way worse -- mine is still tentative, which is good, since Amazon screwed up...

     I had meant to post yesterday.  I even had a topic picked out.  ...I think.  Today, Tam and I plan to vote, despite a cold that may be ...

     Friday night, while Tam and I were watching television (an episode per night of the current season of Slow Horses ), a fire truck siren...

     Voting, not so much.  Too many people.  I was never very good around people -- shyness, I liked to claim.  I'm the retiring type, h...

     The paint has come off the window frames around the living room windows, especially the sills.  Those windows are original to the house...

     The last week or so before an election is always pretty wild, but the candidates and politicians campaigning for them are crazier than ...

    Walter Koenig passed away earlier this week.  We're down to Kirk and Sulu from original Star Trek cast.  Koenig was an interesting ...

      It came to me as email spam from The New York Times -- second only to the NRA for desperate pen pal behavior -- and I decided to give...

      Oldies TV network Me-TV has been running The Wizard of Oz film most of this month, along with various (old) behind-the-scenes shows a...

      So, week before last, I dropped the motor unit of my "Amazon Basics" rechargeable, HEPA-rated stick vacuum by not realizing ...

     You should walk a mile in my ears.  Men (especially) say things to women that they think of as well-intentioned -- but which communicat...

     I have spent the entire work day -- 9:30 in the morning through 8:00 at night -- working with a very sharp factory support engineer to ...