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Hyperfocus. What a time waster.

So, I’m doing this art project that required me to buy a certain number of items.  I go to Home Despot, I buy the items I need, I carefully put them in the shopping bag.  The self-checkout device has a meltdown over something, as it inevitably does.  While I’m offering it kleenex and saying “there, [...]

Rats

No, the OTHER kind of rat pack

This afternoon, there was a noise as of heavy construction coming from the ceiling in my kitchen.  I went upstairs to the bedroom and checked the closet that’s in that same corner.

I was greeted by a scattering of ratsh*t.

Nice.

My cursory googling indicates that they’re probably roof rats. They probably [...]

How to Avoid Shopping Overwhelm

I’ll give you a hint: make someone else do the work

I detest shopping. I especially detest shopping in malls. They seem deliberately designed to be mazes, made all the more confusing by the fact that each one of them, nationwide, has all the same stores only in different configurations. I [...]

Angry at Astrophysics

I realized today that for the third time in a week, I forgot to take my meds this morning.  This is not good.

When this realization struck, I took a few minutes to think about the ways in which my self care has gone off the rails the last few weeks   My [...]

I Hate Disruptions

When I was a sophomore in high school, we used to joke about our American History teacher’s compulsive habits. If you moved the stapler, the three hole punch, or the pencil sharpener even slightly out of alignment, he would immediately notice and put them back. For awhile we tried moving them [...]

How to Use Gmail Calendar

In case you’re not up with the gmail these days,  it’s a free, web-based e-mail system with unlimited storage that is run by Google.  One of gmail’s many (many) features is its calendar, which you can tweak to your heart’s content.  You can create as many calendars as you want — for home and work, [...]