I'm one of those people who can live a long time just putting up with things, get to the end of my rope and reach the point of ENOUGH, goodbye, I don't need this. Examples in my past include a place of employment and a major relationship. Not a bad thing, it's how every attempt…

Here are some updates: Six feet later: Erika suggested I give a rating for recent gross posts. This update is rated I for icky. Is that how you spell it? Icky? Ikky? No matter how you spell it it's pretty gross. An update to recent news that four running shoe clad feet have washed up…

This is my electric can opener. I bought it in about 1975 for $3 at the Richman Gordman Half Price Store when I lived in Omaha. I's been on one counter or another for over 30 years. Recently, one of my kid's friends commented "Oh, it's a can opener. All these years I thought you…

File this one in you can teach an old dog new tricks. This is a Flickr badge of our past week, which included both high school and undergrad commencements, although one was conspicuously sans graduate. Click on one of the wee tiny pictures and get an enlargement. Some of what you'll find: 1. Close but…

More everyday questions. How does the pain medication know what part of the body to go to? I know the science behind it, but the manufacturers assume people don't or else they wouldn't spend so much developing different boxes for the same item. Read the labels on certain brands of over the counter pain tablets,…

How does toothpaste know it's night time? I recently bought a pack of toothpaste and found one tube was labeled for daytime use and the other for nighttime. I read the ingredient list and they were identical. Being the rebel I am I reversed the recommended regimen and my teeth don't seem confused. Questions from…

Living on the border of two countries comes with interesting regulations. God forbid you cross into the US with a mango or fruit of the hawthorne. I once had a "lemon offense," reamed out by the FDA inspector for surreptitiously carrying a forgotten wee slice of lemon in my picnic cooler. The reasons for transportation…

All sorts of corny and clever titles for this one. Polygnomials? They're multiplying? Double your fun? That would be the most accurate. For the same amount of yarn that goes into one scarf, you can make two Alan Dart gnomes. Great gifts don't you think?  

Have you ever played this game? We've gotten into it recently, usually involving a group of friends and a few glasses of wine. Even with my middle aged curtailed wine ingestion, the last time we played I mistakenly came up with two lies and a truth. I could have saved one of them for a…

Sometimes I hear something that cracks me up, a literal LOL moment. One of my coworkers was going to spend her birthday weekend with her daughter, a 90-something aunt, and her cousin. Using the quote above, she described their Italian family tradition of occasional women only weekends. While the males were off doing manly things,…