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Long Suffering Spouse heads back to school in "the Year of the Parent" 26 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Duplex comic by Glenn McCoy, image obtained from Yahoo! Comics. The Chicago Public Schools are starting up today. Even if you're not in Chicago, you may have heard about this because of our school st...
The more contact numbers one has, the harder one is to reach 23 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
Click to enlarge or follow link below to original cartoon. In a post earlier this month I mentioned in passing that the more contact numbers someone has, the harder they are to get hold of (I'll have...
Everything I need to know I get from the comics, part 4,796 22 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
From the comic Bliss, by Harry Bliss; image obtained from the Chicago Tribune Comics Kingdom. OK, I'm on deadline on a project and I don't have time to blog. But I still have to read the comics. And ...
Curmudgeon gets a smart phone, proves how dumb he is 20 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
It's official. I now have an appliance that's smarter than me. There is, of course, an argument to be made that most of my appliances, and some of the furniture besides, were already smarter than me....
In the event, Dr. Doom did not show up 14 Aug 2013 | 10:19 pm
I didn't really think she would. And, in the end, no blood was spilled at Abuela's 80th birthday party. She seemed happy enough -- she'd been poised over her phone all day long and was entirely in he...
Abuela has an 80th birthday, sure to be a grand occasion 2 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
I seldom write about family functions before they happen. If I do talk about the planning the went into an event, I still generally wait until after the fact. I do this because (at least in my own min...
A disappointing visit to the eye doctor 31 Jul 2013 | 10:31 pm
My glaucoma is essentially unchanged for more than a dozen years now. Every year or so, however, I have to prove this to the eye doctor by taking a visual field test (yes, I've written about this bef...
How superstitious are you? 30 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
As a modern American, I deny being superstitious. If I don't walk under ladders, well, who knows, there might be a bucket on top that might spill on me. I'll gladly walk under scaffolds, though, espe...
New York gets a new scandal, Chicago gets a new alderman 26 Jul 2013 | 12:14 am
The aptly named Anthony Weiner is so enamored of his male appendage that he continued to send pictures of his manhood to various women in various places (including, apparently, Chicago) even after he ...
Why all this excitement over a "Royal" Baby? 24 Jul 2013 | 04:05 am
Balding Billy and Bonnie Kate left a London hospital Tuesday with their new Bundle of Joy, a kid who doesn't yet have a name but does have a title, HRH the Prince of Cambridge. If family luck holds, t...
