The Adventures of Roberta X

     Butterflies are one of the happier things to see.  This great big yellow one landed in the back yard as I walked from the garage to the...

     I just polished off the last of the bacon.  There were only three slices left, which is probably one more than I should have had, but w...

     And I'm for the shower!  One nice thing, it's been cooling off better overnight.  It will still be very hot and humid by aftern...

     There's a project getting underway at the North Campus of the Skunk Workings and it involves actual skilled trades other than my ow...

     For those of us who grew up with parents and teachers who had vivid memories of WW II (and lots of newsreel footage to back it up), tho...

      I have a couple of "aloft" projects, one on a huge, flat roof at work where the only drawbacks are A) heat, B) I'm going...

     It was a fun day and it went all too fast (my doctor may be onto something with her theory that I have a sinus infection and haven'...

     You'd think anything this spectacular would make a sound--      It crept up quiet as ever.      Some things do make a sound: I...

     Did you hear the one about somebody making a film out of Robert A. Heinlein's All You Zombies-- ?      I kind of had, and dismiss...

     Corn chowder and a pork bahn mi  sandwich.  Delicious!      Spent Friday morning at the doctor, after a bad flare-up in my whatever-...

     I read other people's accounts of happy, idyllic childhoods and I don't believe them.  Often, I can't read much of it: I fi...

     On second thought, forget it.  Shouldn't you be out playing in traffic or something?