One of my favorite Slate writers, Emily Yoffe (whose book, “What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner,” has been on my Amazon.com wish list forever), just wrote an article about learning to drive a stick shift that gave me a case of the giggles. I cannot imagine if I’d had to …

There are several really funny mugs with expressions composed of office jargon here, but this one’s probably my favorite:

Well, friends, I’m happy to report that most of our yard sale stuff is now gone. There is one lone piece of furniture left, as well as a garbage bag or two of clothing and maybe 2-3 boxes of random crap. Not too shabby, I’d say. We’ll 86 that stuff after we move, probably, off …

I think it’s written in the heavens that, when you decide to have a yard/garage sale, you absolutely MUST spend the night before frantically preparing. Thankfully, Daniel and I approached the garage tonight (after the Stars game, which I’ll blog about later) having already identified and, to a large extent, priced the items we wished …

Yes, friends, I finally got one. Today, in fact. HOORAY!

I know many others on blogger have been dealing with comment spam, and some of us have turned on the “word verification” (think: random letters/words like on Ticketmaster) for commenters on our sites. I was doing my semi-regular check of everyone’s blogs today, and saw this comment — they’re not even TRYING anymore: Anonymous said… …

I thought this was funny. I don’t *try* to be a geekette, I really don’t … and I don’t even see myself in that light… but, y’know, as in so many things in life, everything is relative / perception is reality.

So, the midterm-from-hell, which was supposed to be — nay, *promised* to be — graded and returned today, was neither. I got very little garage-sale/moving-prep-wise done tonight, unless you can count watching two episodes of “Commander in Chief” and three episodes of “My Name is Earl” that had been accumulating on our bedroom TiVo. Simon …

Today, for the first time in more than three years, my old Sony Vaio laptop booted. This is the laptop I used during the waning days of my undergraduate degree and throughout my time at Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing in Mountain Home. And actually, now that I look at some of the files, it was also heavily …

If you haven’t had the undeniable pleasure of Daniel’s company recently, you have really been missing out. I say this in the most loving and supportive manner possible, at least, as loving and supportive as I can muster after enduring — no, that’s not the right word — *ENJOYING* his ongoing brainstorms related to the …