Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Sometimes, Bill Hobbs just sends them right over the plate.  But, awe, shucks, let’s take a swing anyway.  Good practice.
Remember back before Bush, when gas was $1.50 a gallon in 2000?  If I’d had $600 then, I could have bought almost 400 gallons of gas instead of the measly 150 gallons the Republicans and their [...]

Third Time’s… Well, It’s the Third Time

So, I put an offer in on the Charlotte Park house.  A great deal less than the seller wants.  But we went out this afternoon with a tape measure and a question, and that question was “How can a 1100 square foot house only show 940 square feet on the tax record?”
My friends, the answer [...]

One other Quick Thing I Forgot

My mom has shaved her eyebrows off.  She claims it was an accident, but she’s blind!  Of course a woman whose eye sight is so bad that she has to get shots in her eyeballs to keep them from deteriorating any further is at high risk for having some kind of seeing related accident.  It’s [...]

Two Quick Things

Well, two and a half.
.5. I was at a meeting this morning and when I bragged on Rachel from Women’s Health News blogging for Our Bodies, Ourselves (at the appropriately titles Our Bodies, Our Blog), there was an audible gasp. It was a little like how Bono’s friends must feel when they’re all [...]

The Charlotte Park House

Okay, so I’m just going to say it.  I love the Charlotte Park house.  It has a front porch you could set a rocking chair on.  It’s got a fireplace (though the Butcher thinks the fireplace is ugly, but I like it.  I think you could do what you wanted with tiling it or whatever [...]