December 2011

Eau de Bourbono Mouthwash

December 9, 2011

LOL! Check this out: I finally guzzled down the last of the lifetime supply of bourbon purchased some time back at Costco. Nice bottle…why throw it out? Decided to fill it with Listerine and use it to decorate the bathroom. Heckuva lot better than this ugly plastic thing sitting on the bathroom counter advertising its [...]

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w00t! Wednesdays from Hell Are OVER!!!

December 7, 2011

Yay! Today is the last Wednesday from Hell! The Wednesday afternoon class let out a little early, giving time to race by the Safeway to pick up a celebratory bottle of wine and the pool store to pick up some chemicals. Then raced home to discover M’hijito had not come by over the lunch hour, [...]

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Bye-bye, Mr. Postman

December 7, 2011

We’re told that the U.S. Postal Service is taking another step down the road to extinction: not only will they raise the price of a first-class stamp to 45 cents, they’ll no longer even try to deliver first-class mail in a timely way. But never fear: all that junk mail they chuff into your mailbox [...]

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Glorious Sprouts!

December 6, 2011

Shortly before Thanksgiving the choir had its annual silent auction. This rather swell event is the big fund-raiser of the year, and people go all out to make it fancy and fun. It includes a very nice catered dinner. Well, among other amazing things, the decorating committee adorned the dinner tables with a fantastic array [...]

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The Frost Is on the Palm Tree

December 4, 2011

Every time it rains in the low desert and snows in the high country, we know it’s gonna freeze come the first clear, cloudless night. Welp, as we scribble we are enjoying that first clear, cloudless night. It as, as my daddy used to say, colder’n a bygod out there! I just spent a chunk [...]

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End in sight…but apparently not the end of teaching

December 3, 2011

Only four more sets of papers to grade! Then, thank God, this semester will be over. I was amazed to see that Mr. Boxankle’s final paper is something of a tour de force. Holy macquerel! He must have gone to the writing center. It’s totally reorganized, plumped up with new cited and documented sources, and [...]

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