The Adventures of Roberta X

      An interesting post on " Activism " over at Sebastian's.  Worth reading -- and it's worth seeing all the wheel-spinn...

      The weather this Spring has been typical of Indiana, a day of lovely sunshine and temperatures anywhere from warm to chilly followed b...

      In which I write about multiple things.       Suez:       Late word this morning is that they're making progress.  The stuck car...

      Cats are quirky creatures.  I have been fortunate to have shared my life with many who wanted to be with me.  Huck will nearly always ...

      It was a beautiful day today.  I goofed off -- did a little laundry, started up my motor scooter just to make sure it would run, and m...

      They're what , in Florida?  Dying in the streets?  Booming economically?  Florida's approach to the pandemic has been criticiz...

      We -- by which I mean our Facilities guy and his subcontractor -- installed one of those big, portable air-conditioners at the North C...

      "AI," my rear end; they're chatbots and related utilities.  Very sophisticated, neural-network-driven chatbots, but they...

    Fun?  Holden Wu went to the vet for his yearly checkup this morning.  I worked from home before and after and then--      A headache ha...

      Last Monday, our neighborhood market had fresh corned beef again.  So I bought one and froze it for the weekend, to try the method I u...

      A commenter who will not be published left a single sentence in response to my joking post-vaccine piece, to inform me that I was an i...

      So, I pfgot the vaccine yesterday -- the Pfizer one -- and I pfave expfizened nothing pfworse than a pfore arm.       Otherwipfize, I ...