• The Little Shopping Cart

    The Little Shopping Cart

    Once upon a time, there was a little Walmart shopping cart. He felt weary and dissatisfied with his daily job, which was filling him full, but not fulfilling him. He dreamed of seeing the world, experiencing freedom, getting away from the dreaded parking lot where he sat, day after day, waiting for yet another shopper…

  • Long Exposure Photography is Hard on a Marriage…

    Long exposure photography is hard on a marriage, if your spouse isn’t into photography as well. He drives you to a beautiful location, and you stroll hand in hand down the beach, until you spot a place where a picture wouldn’t be a bad idea. Now, under normal circumstances, a “regular” person grabs his or…

  • Frozen Feet

    Frozen Feet

    You stand on the sidelines and you freeze your butt off. The wind is so strong, it almost blows you over. Rain is cutting your face like a thousand knives, and the cold water trickles down your neck and into your jacket. Your hands are freezing. Your feet feel like clubs, because your toes have…

  • The Mysterious World of Backyard Creatures, part 27:

    The Arcapede Arcapedes (from Latin arca, “box”, and pes, pedis, “foot”) are arthropods belonging to the class Mammalia of the family Hominidae. They are elongated metameric animals with a pair of legs on a box. Arcapedes normally have a drab coloration of varying shades of brown and grey to white. More colourful varieties are known…

  • Back to School Shopping

    Back to School Shopping

    Here is what happened today at the store: Me: “I realized the pencil case I bought you is a bit small. How about I get you a nicer, bigger one? With more features!” My son: “No, Mommy. It’s fine. This will do.” Me: “Are you sure? Those are so much better than what you have…

  • Did you ever bake a cake?

    Then you know how completely retarded it is to measure “one cup” of butter. Butter comes in a hard, cold block. Sometimes it’s a big block. Other times its a little block. But it’s almost always a block. Hard, sticky, greasy. And squishing it into a measuring cup is NO FUN. You can eyeball it,…