by Mir | Jan 24, 2013 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I can’t remember if I mentioned that I finally upgraded to an iPhone 5 from my previous dinosaur-era model (deductible business expense, wooo!), which means I am only recently learning the wonders of Siri. Siri and I have a somewhat difficult relationship,...
by Mir | Jan 23, 2013 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Hippie School is working on some sort of family history/family tree/civil rights mashup project right now—at least, I think they are. Monkey tends to be a little obtuse when it comes to telling me about what’s actually happening at school. Somewhere in his...
by Mir | Jan 22, 2013 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Today I climbed into the wayback machine and spent some time fondly remembering all of those notes I wrote during classes in middle and high school. I view it as a necessary stage of my adolescence, really, the Writing Notes stage. Nowadays, of course, kids only have...
by Mir | Jan 21, 2013 | Health is overrated, It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
About two years ago, I went to a new optical place to have my eyes checked and to get new glasses. Some quick math reveals that I had already been living in Georgia for… erm… three and a half years, by then, and it was my first eye exam in this state....
by Mir | Jan 20, 2013 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
So I’m doing The Vagina Monologues again this year, and while my father would insist that as a kid/teen I used to get cast in a play and have the whole script memorized the next day (this is an exaggeration), the older I get, the harder it is for me to memorize...