In medias res

I’ve gotten so used to the remodeling chaos around here that when I got home (to B’s home) from work this evening, I thought about cleaning the floors a bit, then discarded the idea since the Shop Vac is outside.
Tangentially, any time you are reduced to using a Shop Vac to clean the floors inside, [...]

I was lying in bed this morning, complaining to myself about how much my ankle is hurting now that its forced vacation in a cast has ended. It had grown accustomed to drinking mojitos and napping, or whatever it has been up to for the past couple of months, and now that it is pressed [...]

This is old news, but a couple weeks ago, a tug pushed a barge into a pylon on a Columbia River bridge. That, of course, falls into the whatever category, since no significant damage was done and no one was injured. However, I can’t get it out of my mind because of the name of [...]

Google’s April Fool’s Day joke this year really was great.
I spent this great holiday working from home, which of course involved breaking into the microbrew around 3 pm. The hatred I have been feeling toward certain players at work has escalated to contempt, and being powerless to change things, I have resolved to stop worrying [...]