The Adventures of Roberta X

The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Friday, May 15, 2026

Nuttier Than Ever

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     Indiana's Lieutenant Governor continues to express peculiar opinions -- now he's concerned "Marxist Democrats" are go...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

A Return To Space

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      The next season of For All Mankind is out.  On Apple TV, it's an "alternate history" in which the Russians beat the U.S...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Television Of Interest

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     Tamara and I recently watched the entire run of the CBS-carried show Person of Interest , finishing last night.  Despite ending nearly ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Eggs Pomodoro, Sort Of

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     Last night, I made a kind of soup or ragout with ground turkey, mushroom, onion, carrot, celery and mushroom-chicken broth.  It was qui...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Omininousity

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      Things didn't end well for Cassandra, but they were bad long before they got worse: the thing about prophecies of doom is, even if...
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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Slow-Roasted Skirt Steak

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      They've had skirt steaks at the grocer's for some time at a price that is only a little unreasonable and today, I decided to g...
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Saturday, May 09, 2026

Easy-Open Oranges

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     They're not cheap, and they have a somewhat limited season, but "Sumo" Mandarin oranges are delightful, for all the name...
Friday, May 08, 2026

Blindly "Edgy?" Disgruntled Employee? What?

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      Not to be too vague about it, but the online official swag store of a certain auto-racing sanctioning group briefly offered a T-shirt ...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

Aw, Spare Me

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     My family, what's left of it, sometimes shares nostalgic text messages about our happy childhood, and that's fine; we're al...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

And The Winner Is...

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      Advertising! That was the biggest winner in Indiana's primary elections yesterday.  There was a big uptick in ad money, largely sp...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2026

Primary Day

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     Today's election results should be interesting.  The outcomes for the Indiana Republicans being primaried at the behest of the Repu...
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Monday, May 04, 2026

Election Homework Done

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     A good start for a Monday: I have located our polling place (a little Lutheran church that has hosted voting several times in recent ye...
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Roberta X
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
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