The Adventures of Roberta X

     This morning as I was ladling out breakfast,* Tam was bemoaning that she "...needed to turn out 500 words for Z_____† today,"...

     My neck hurts.  Still.  Maybe another night's sleep...?      ETA: Oh, and guess what?  If the replacement part arrives today (Fr...

     It was either wrestling with tires -- a mess largely resolved by mid-afternoon yesterday, I'm pleased to say, and I drove the Hot N...

     I often do.  Some well-off Harvard or Yale graduate, nattering on, a little about things he doesn't have a firm grasp of and a whol...

     ...Time was, I could just let the menfolk take it behind the shed with a shotgun and blammo!   Problem well, not really solved; we'...

     This day.      I did finally solve a nagging problem with an accursed Ku-band uplink system, which could have been collateral damage ...

     The Russians are watching!  The Russians are watching!      --India, they're watching.  This is the Clarke-belt view from an Elek...

     And not in any cute-1940s-duet way either; it's just blamed cold: 3 degrees, 30 mile an hour winds (with gusts overnight as high a...

     The title of this post is the title of a 1996 film about the life -- or some of the life -- of pulp writer Robert E. Howard , perhaps b...

     Rannie, napping next to Tam this morning.  One of them didn't want to be in the photo.

     Jeepers, my back hurts!  I did hardly anything yesterday -- swept snow from my car and the walks, shoveled a very little -- but perhaps...