Minneapolis leftovers, editing glitches, a productive walk, reading, a nap, and TPPN…

I know I’m home now, but here are some final thoughts and tidbits about my trip to Minneapolis: Here I am alone (mostly) in one of the all-mirrored-sides elevators in the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis: In the context of “you might be gay if”: At another time when I was the only one in … Read more

Items of interest, some S-L, a little STC newsletter, some curry shrimp, and staying in…

Interesting: Using Google Maps to Get Free Phone Calls Note: I heard about this on a YouTube clip about “Google Hacks.” To that end, it may be something that Google has heard about and fixed if it’s not really how they want it to work. Bottom line: use this “trick” at your own risk. I … Read more

The red menace and janitorial nightmare, the mostly social book club being, well, mostly social…

Fight fire without water! Worried those wings will repeat on you tonight? “Sleep on your left side,” says Anthony A. Star-poli, M.D., a New York City gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. Studies have shown that patients who sleep on their left sides are less likely to suffer from acid … Read more

Wow Yow, Mr./Ms. Smoothie, a rhetorical analysis, and Dreamgirls…

Seeing the headlines on wral.com this morning, I see that the “something going on last night at Reynolds” was none other than the return of Kay Yow to the game. Explains the media mania. Next I saw zy1125‘s comment about my Smoothie’s rant in yesterday’s blog entry: “Did you ever stop to think that perhaps … Read more

A trip to Roanoke with Joe to visit his sister and her family…

Joe and I left my place at about 11:30. We stopped at the Bruegger’s at Mission Valley, where I had to refrain from SHIFTING INTO UPPER CASE in terms of customer service. The line was too long; the people serving too inefficient, resulting in slow customer service; the person who helped me mumbled; the cashier, who … Read more