TGIF

    It's the weekend!!

Exercise

    According to my Fitbit, 20 minutes of mowing the lawn qualifies as exercise.  But three hours of dusting and vacuuming does not.

2019 Holiday Season

    There's Christmas music on the CD-player (I didn't do it), some (a couple hundred, just the beginning) indoor Christmas decorations are up, and there's an artificial log in the fireplace.

Philosophy Monday

    When Good Enough just ain't good enough.

Grocery Produce Bags

    Me too, Arlo.  Me too.

Scandinavian Furniture Friday!

    You said it, Arlo!

Romance Novels

    This is why I don't read Romance novels.

Red Hair

    Really now.  What other answer is there?

Chess By Mail

    Not only do I not 'get' this comic at all, but I'm also a bit miffed that Arlo is dissing those (like me) who play chess by mail.

Baseball Gloves

    Liz cleaned out the storage shed today.  I don't see why I have to get rid of moldy old baseball gloves, just because I haven't used them in 20 years and won't ever use them again.

Cell Phones

    At last!  Someone who agrees with me!  Even if it is a character in a comic strip.

Friday The Thirteenth

    It took me way too long to "get" today's Arlo and Janis strip.

We'll See

    The two words that every kid hates to hear his parents say.

Grocery Bagging

    For the record, I worked as a bagger in a grocery store one summer, in between college years.   Proper Grocery Bagging *is* a lost art.

    Further details.  This was in Lake Havasu City, in 110-115°F weather and monsoon humidity, and we had to carry the bags of groceries to the customers' cars.  Brutal.  Simply brutal.

Old Books, Old Friends

    I have to admit it - this is me whenever the subject of getting rid of old (already read) books comes up.  True confession:  I'm looking over at one of my bookshelves right now, and there's a "Photoshop 7" book on it.

Incubator

    This happens occasionally with my wife.  I'll come to bed, and find her in the same position as Arlo's in.

Philosophy Tuesday

   With apologies to James Dean.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

    Well-played, Janis.  Pink Floyd music is the right music for ...well... just about everything.

Free Bread!

    This is yesterday's Arlo & Janis comic.  Which is timely, since last Saturday the neighbor lady showed up on our doorstep with two loaves of bread in her hands, wanting to know if we wanted them.

     A couple things.  She's done this several times now.  And this is "store" bread, not homemade.  It is also "past-its-expiration-date" bread she gets from a local bakery.  She and the owner know each other through church.  We won't identify the denomination, but they have magic panties.

    It should also be said that we and our neighbors are not particularly chummy.  Indeed, "frosty" would be a more appropriate description.  So this act of sharing bread stems not from friendship.

    So what is it?  I've eaten some and haven't come down with the runs or food-poisoning.  Is it penance she's doing for thinking bad thoughts about us?  Or, like the Arlo-&-Janis strip, does she for some reason think we're down to our last dollar?

Astral Conspiracy

    Today's Arlo & Janis.  Arlo and I are on the same wavelength.