The Adventures of Roberta X

     You can "clam up," but you can't clam down. Conversely, you can "calm down," but no one ever calms up. And...

     Looks like we have a St@r Tr*k series back, only it's not smug or pompous.  The Orville is still The Original Series-type stories ...

     While The Nation was fuming over the people of Peurto Rico left suffering without air-conditioning thanks to cold, uncaring Mr. Trump,...

     There was another national-level test of the EAS -- the modern synthetic replacement for the old-fashioned Emergency Broadcast System -...

     On my morning commute, I usually listen to WICR , an FM station owned and (student) operated by the University of Indianapolis that pic...

     The news and news-like items Facebook decides I should see tend to be pretty eclectic and I find value in that: it sends me headlines I...

     No, I really can't.  Houston (etc.) is a mess.  A lot of Florida is a mess.  The Keys are in sad shape and they're all way ahea...

     The Invisible Themepark!   Kind of interesting.

     I have not been well this past week.  Had a flu shot last Friday (and they usually zap me for a couple of days), had some nasty dental ...

     Sausage and eggs and this and that....      It was good!

     It's work.  They broke something kind of important, by doing something that shouldn't break it.  And now I'm troubleshootin...

     Because if pastrami and Swiss cheese on rye is good for lunch, why not sneak it into breakfast?  I was making a "gashouse" or...