One might be inclined to wonder if one has been watching too many reruns of The Big Bang Theory when one finds oneself with the Soft Kitty song repeating in one’s head. Just sayin’.

Men are like… – Heh Suitcases (via) – Interesting Vintage ads – a Flickr stream. I like this one DrFaustusAU at Deviant Art – What if Dr. Suess had written The Call of Cthulhu? * * * * * see more Daily Squee

There is a I Survived Oklahoma 2011 t-shirt. I do want one but I think they may have come out with this too soon. We still have another month to get through.

We had a pleasant little Thanksgiving – just a nice, very small (compared to most years) get-together at my brother-in-law’s house. I don’t do Black Friday but I do Cyber Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday…) Some of the Black Friday stories I’ve heard are just horrifying. Is this what the holiday season is [...]

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. so I’m sure most of you have better things to do than reading this stuff so after this one I won’t be posting much, if anything, until next Monday. I could try to wax poetic about Thanksgiving, talk about it being my favorite holiday because it’s all about [...]

You need this app. Trust me, you really do. It will fill all those empty moments (and hours) in your life when you’re thinking, “I should be doing something productive. Darn, what can I do to avoid having to be productive?”

One of my long time pet peeves… No wait, this is more than a peeve; it borders on outrage. This really pisses me off, folks. What I’m sputtering about is the lack of different inseam lengths in women’s pants. Men get a choice. At Atwoods, one of the better stores for jeans selection, I personally [...]

Two books I read recently: Consider Phlebas is the first of Iain M. Banks “Culture” novels. The story is told from the the point of view of an outsider – someone working for the enemies of the Culture. He is a “Changer”, what we more commonly call a “shape-shifter”. His mission is to find a [...]

Watching the Monday Night Football pre-game show last night, I learned that the estimated wait time for Packers season tickets is over 800 years. And every year they get several thousand new applications to be put on the waiting list. UPDATE: More about NFL season ticket waiting lists on Wikipedia

One of my perennial pet peeves is finding a really beautiful mug that I “must have” but it only comes in a set of four. I don’t even have room for one more mug much less four but if I could have just one… well, maybe I could find a place for it. You know? [...]

It was already nearly 70° F when I got up this morning. Overcast but still beautiful weather for November. It was seriously windy all weekend. A lot of the leaves fell so now it looks more like November but, today at least, it feels like September. I had planned to say something about Veterans Day [...]

This is a new shirt that I finished yesterday. The fabric is a lightweight, soft corduroy. The pattern I used is McCall’s 6076 but I modified the collar slightly, not that you can really tell from the picture. It’s such a busy print it’s hard to see the edges of the collar or the princess [...]

From now on any comment that contains the word “outlet” will be held for moderation. Also, I have added several brand names to the blacklist.

It used to be that people didn’t even think about Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving. At least that’s the way I remember it. But right now I’m thinking, “Oh no! It’s almost mid-November and I haven’t even thought about what to buy for Christmas!” You might think that it’s merely a sign of how advertising [...]

Monday I got about 10 catalogs in the mail. (I didn’t count them so by “10″ I mean somewhere between 7 and 15.) Then yesterday I got several more. I haven’t even had a chance to look at all of them yet but I’ve already seen lots of shiny things to lust after. (and I [...]

The Husband is off work this week so I might not get much blogging done. (See, I have an actual excuse now.) It’s officially a hunting vacation but since the deer live in our back yard there is no trip involved. Besides, this morning it’s raining. So most of the time he’s hanging around the [...]

We had another earthquake this morning at a little after 2:00am. There wasn’t much to it, rattled the house for a few seconds. Nothing was broken. But seriously! Two earthquakes in Oklahoma in my lifetime? The first one was sort of interesting; the second one has me thinking, if we can have little ones we [...]

And winning, regardless of the lameness of the competition, still means I get cookies. — here …there is no real curve to life – a beginning, a middle, and an end, a resolution of a sort. It is all middle. If one is at all alert, it is just as mysterious as you near the [...]

Normally, the beginning of November is yellow and the end of November is grey. This year is different. There is some yellow but there is more bronze, red and even some green still. It still looks like October. Most of the leaves are still on the trees but the wind is working hard today to [...]

Russian ghost town Albino deer – Wow! Tree – I almost didn’t notice the woman Rambling Woods (via) London Shop Fronts – Yeah, I know… I’ve linked this one before but here it is again. They’ve changed the layout. September flowers and an eight-legged resident Feathered visitors

I’ve been neglecting some of my favorite blogs so it’s been way too long since I last looked in on Bibliodyssey. The two most recent posts are both wonderful collections of images. Kinderbuch has charming illustrations from a 1910 children’s book. That was before my time, obviously, but still, it takes me back. I remember [...]

I bought a new pressure cooker. It’s the Tramontina 6 liter/6.3 quart. I read lots of reviews and this one had only one but it didn’t have any bad reviews and I have a couple of regular cooking pans made by the same company and I’m very happy with their quality. I have wanted a [...]