Today is HTML Day! I did not know this! Hat-tip to MetaFilter user fizzzzzzzzzzzy for posting about it. I thought it would be fitting to share my thoughts here as well. Learning HTML changed my life. I graduated in January…
Friday 5: Puck around and find out
Rabbit rabbit! Happy August and happy Friday! Today is International Mahjong Day (Mahjong is having a moment, but it also looks super confusing) and Respect for Parents Day (Respect should be earned). WM had his six week post-op appointment yesterday…
Journal prompt: avoiding the downward spiral
Hi! We’re back from a few days at HersheyPark. I think this is the sixth year we’ve gone. It would be seven years but y’know…2020. I used the only decent and bloggable photo on yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday post. A lack…
Wordless Wednesday: Week 31
My first Phish concert
A few months ago, one of my out of town friends (M) asked if I wanted to go to a Phish concert when they came to Philadelphia this summer. He’s a big Phish fan, and I’m someone who likes to…
Friday 5: Scattergories, part 15
Happy Friday! Today is National Merry-Go-Round Day (love them!), National Thread the Needle Day (not a fan of needlecrafts, though I keep trying) and most importantly, a Summer Friday. Not some random Summer Friday, but one that heralds almost a…
On Hulk Hogan, who died today but also years ago
Today Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, died. Newer readers might not know this but I watched pro wrestling from age 9 or 10 onward for decades. I stopped a few years back firstly because I didn’t want to…
Wordless Wednesday: Week 30
Housecleaning weekend
I said on Friday that I’d follow up with a list of what I accomplished during what I started calling housecleaning weekend. Here we go! Achieved: Did not achieve: I deem this weekend a success.
Friday 5: Why deny the obvious?
Happy Friday! Today is National Tropical Fruit Day (yes to all of them!) and National Caviar Day (tried once, not for me and my working class palate). I’m starting this during my lunch and will probably finish after work because…
Wordless Wednesday: Week 29
Friday 5 (on a Saturday!): In the can
Good morning and happy Saturday! Yesterday was my Friday off and I was a productive bumbleblee. I had Molly the Jeep inspected (she passed!), had her oil changed, went to lunch to celebrate my MIL’s birthday, tended to the vegetable…