The Adventures of Roberta X

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

      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...

     I made peposo for dinner last night, and it was fantastic!      Put too much salt on the meat at the start, and had to dilute the brot...

      Various teams and individuals have been searching for Amelia Earhart -- or what's left of her airplane -- ever since she disappear...

     The centuries between the Romans and us -- the so-called Dark Ages -- were darkened by plagues and population loss, by painful decentra...

     You want to know what I think about so-called "Artificial Intelligence?" I think it ought to be banned while there's stil...

     I bought a filtering water pitcher, and the reason is--      City water tastes pretty lousy if it sits for more than a few minutes.  I...

     I was diagnosed with an eye infection in my non-dominant eye some time back, and prescribed steroid-antibiotic eye drops to treat it.  ...

     Okay, maybe it's not exactly his style, but if you're not claustrophobic -- and I most definitely am not -- and you put in the ...

      A part of my day will be about imaging -- they're going to stick me in an MRI machine* and look at my back.  It's still giving...

     Still waiting on more examples, but so far, my theory about what it takes to run a successful human spaceflight program is holding wate...

     I finished the first season of Apple TV's Star City a few weeks ago.  It's the Russian-side companion to their alternate histo...

      The thing about "A.I." is that there's a lot of smoke over very little fire -- and every coat-tail riding grifter and ha...

      Today, I managed to make it to Good Morning Mama's in time to enjoy their home-made corned beef hash, with a scrambled egg on top....

     I don't know how well I'm recovering from my back problems, or adjusting to them, or whatever I'm supposed to be doing.   ...

      It'll be a PhD thesis subject some day, I'm just not sure in which department: Is Republican rage at Dr. Anthony Fauci primari...

     I'm off for four more weeks.  Well, the doctor actually prescribed light duty, still not lifting any more than fifteen pounds, and ...

      Saw my regular doctor today for general follow-up on my back and some discussion of long-term prognosis.  It is, as I suspected, parti...

     The thing about a gerontocracy is that it crumbles away at the upper edge: with age comes power, but nobody lasts forever; the same ...

      Got my FMLA paperwork today,* which is good.  It's got me covered through my next ortho doctor's appointment.      Then I read...