The roller coaster ride continues. I never liked roller coaster rides very much. This morning the hospital called saying my ex had a big respiratory crisis and the doctor started asking me a bunch of end-of-life questions. I raced over … Continue reading →
There’s still no predicting whether my ex-husband will survive or not, although in the past few days he seems to have stabilized and appears to be a bit better. Maybe even significantly better, although the doomy-gloomy “hospitalist” doesn’t deal in … Continue reading →
What is it? Driving a stick shift: Recent research shows that this once-ubiquitous ability is increasingly becoming a lost art. Only 18% of Americans know how to use a stick shift — with the number even lower among younger drivers. … Continue reading →
I’m a connoisseur of blog spam. I’ve seen a great deal of it in my time, almost always trapped in the spam filter. I’d divide it into several categories. The first is the simple advertisement, usually for porn websites. It … Continue reading →
Here’s a study indicating that Americans are lonely and young Americans are the loneliest of all. It’s from quite a while ago, 2018. But it’s not atypical of the sort of figures such polls often get, and this one has … Continue reading →
Recovering from his recent surgery is still extremely difficult for my ex-husband and very stressful. He has post-surgery pneumonia as his most serious problem at the moment, although not his only problem. Yesterday I was at the hospital much of … Continue reading →
Well, it hasn’t been a barrel of laughs lately. Without violating his privacy with Too Much Information, I’ll just say that eight days ago I took my ex-husband to the ER and he was diagnosed with two dangerous but not-likely-to-be-lethal … Continue reading →
… with my ex in the local emergency room. He’s basically okay. They found something relatively minor. Growing old is no joke. Nor was the ER, which has degenerated in recent years: short-staffed, very long waits, extremely depressing group of … Continue reading →
Edward Villella used to be the most famous male dancer in the US. He slightly predated Nureyev’s defection and Baryshnikov’s later arrival, and they eclipsed him to a certain extent. But he was quite a star, and I saw him … Continue reading →
AI narration has started to really really bother me. So many AI-narrated videos feature fake British accents – why? The tone is posh and often supercilious – why? There’s monotony. Many mispronunciations, like “desert” for “dessert” or vice versa. Or … Continue reading →
Now the news is out that Graham Platner’s replacement, Troy Jackson, has a significant other (they’re not married) who is his second cousin and the mother of his two children: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson is in a long-term … Continue reading →
I noticed a couple of recent comments here by readers who have taken in the Nolan film The Odyssey and have remarked on the extreme loudness of the music and the almost-unintelligible dialogue – for example, see this. I’ve seen … Continue reading →