Blog archives for March, 2010

At Penn Station, the sign no longer goes clackety-clack It’s a whole lot quieter in Penn Station these days – no whirring sounds, no clickety-clack of an old-fashioned, mechanical signboard bringing the news that your train is 20 minutes late. In place of the iconic board above the main desk at Baltimore’s Amtrak station, there [...]

Today Kitti emailed me to let me know he finally made his dentist appointment. About a month ago he had an appointment and they realized there was some pretty serious decay going on in one of his teeth. On the down-side, it’s a molar. On the up-side, it’s a wisdom tooth. That means they’re just [...]

I’ve avoided the lure this long. I haven’t really been interested beyond the “ooh, shiny!” stage at all until we started planning a weekend trip to New York City. Kitti casually said “Wouldn’t it be great to have an iPhone so we could find stuff while we’re there?” and with that, the idea took root [...]

Don’t ask. Just… don’t ask. And, uh. You might want to stay upwind. I’m just sayin’. In non-bean-related news, the birds don’t seem to like the mealworm suet. I think. I can’t remember which block I put in which feeder, but one is completely empty and the other was still nearly 3/4 full. Since the [...]

Today was a domestic day. Kitti and I cleaned the fishtank (2/3 water change) and set up a new filter. The previous filter was getting pretty old and having some trouble. It was also getting really noisy. I could have just bought a new motor for it, but it was pretty dirty. So the tank [...]

Last Saturday I started getting a cold. I knew it was a cold and not just an allergy. I felt miserable, everything ached, I was tired and clammy… I got on with life. On Sunday I got the car detailed (Canton Car Wash), went to the dog park, and then felt even more miserable. All [...]

During winter, I started feeding the birds. I bought two of those little cage things and some suet blocks and hung them outside the front window. Since the snow’s nearly completely gone (except for the large, dirty piles in parking lots, of course), refilling it wasn’t really a high priority. I figured the birds would [...]

Yeegod — a subspecies of the nearly extinct, flightless sunderance. Characterized by the fuzzy yellow feathers that surround the beak. Yeegods get to be about 20 pounds and three feet long. They’re primarily vegetarian, but have been known to eat small children when they’re available. Little Fishes — the current knitting project. I don’t have [...]