The Adventures of Roberta X

     Tam is watching Today and chortling, " You've gotta see this!  Savannah [Guthrie] is finger-wagging at the Israeli ambassado...

     They make reproduction antique stoves -- even wood-burning ones as well as clever fakes that look as if they should burn wood instead ...

     - This morning's Roseholme Breakfast is Midwest Looks South-by-Southwest Hash, consisting of 2/3 country sausage, 1/3 chorizo, a co...

     --The District of Colombia's very own (and relatively new*) government has filed to keep their gun-carrying ban in place while they...

     Oh, the insensitivity:      Also, wrong abbreviation.      (FWIW, these are delicious cookies. Among the best I have ever eaten. ...

     This USB keyboard typewriter conversion looks to be a lot slicker than the earlier versions.      If that doesn't suit you, how ab...

     Nooop.  Storm blew through at posting time, lots of lightning; I shut down and cooked breakfast instead.  (Bacon/Swiss cheese omelet.) ...

     Did not sleep well.  Did not go to sleep at all happy -- I'm not chatty at the end of the day and I am fighting with a difficult bi...

     ...Which I got last night for a change.  In bed by 8:30 p.m.  Awake by five, and that suits me, too, since I'll start next week ...

     There they were at our neighborhood grocery, looking like some Warsaw Pact version of the famous (and very trademarked) plastic buildin...

     But sleeping with cold-packs on my knees sure did help!  I'll have to dig out my kneepads the next time I have a project.

     I have now completed the second set of bookshelves I'd cut and routed while on vacation. Another afternoon spent mostly crouched or...