Flummel Archives

2010

September

• Glenn Brown’s History of the United States Capitol

• little green frog

• little turtles

• little fishes

• VISTAless

August

• Regarding that planned Muslim community center in NYC

• Facebook….oy

• Does everyone in the car have to be alive to qualify for the carpool lane?

July

• The fire alarm sounded

• Child’s Play

• Open to the Public

• Raving Rabbids Renault

• 10 million vuvuzeylas

• The feeds

• Ho hum the drive through the city

• Beautiful images

• BP Spills Coffee

• The lottery

• Just shocking!

• Edirp and Ecidujerp

June

• Stamping MJ

• Abbracci Gratis

• Customer-created questions and answers

• BP finds a solution to plugging that big hole

• Last week when I was napping

• Finally a reality show that challenges my pea brain

• Big Oil hopes you aren’t paying attention right now…

• Squirrel

• Making my own meteorite

May

• Skype this

• Trying this thing

• What can this mean? - A Poll

• Reinsuring and a new windshield

• I didn’t think it was possible

• Again with that aging thing

• It’s happening to me too

• Cell phone story - looking across Willapa Bay to the Pacific

• Quaintness

• Your tax dollars

April

• Over before the stink

• Earth Day 2010

• April was the deadline

• Hullo….can anybody hear me?

March

• And she rises from her death bed

• I fear no snow

February

• Oscah Pool 2010 sticky reminder

• Chile and my obsessive earthquake watch

• Langara College: Rethink scholarship

• Oscah Pool 2010

• I’m sorry my first words in two weeks

January

• Salmon tossing

• Living within the shake

• Words heard, volume 2

• Haiti

• Pants on the Ground

• I’m busy

• Belated French Toast

• Life is fine

• The intensity is burning white

• Oops…

• To Avatar or not to Avatar

2009

December

• Jib Jab 2009 - Never a year like it before…

• Health care

• Temperature update

• Baking balls

• Fffffffreeeezzzzzing

November

• To the woman in South Weed, California…

• Those aircard thingys

• Stimulating

• Light breaking

• Heinz 57

• Words heard

• Bed to door in 4½ minutes

October

• Conference strategies

• Yakima

• Geocities

• A full house

• Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies

• The boy in the iron lung

• Let’s play earthquake

• Let’s do the math…

September

• Catching the bus

• INSANE KILLERS ABOUND IN WASHINGTON

• On the 20-ounce latté scale

• Mary Travers

• Birds on the wires

• MTV and El Jay

• We’re number 37

• Obama’s zombie children

• Where or where has Karan gone….

August

• Suffering at 28.8

• Dear Facebook and Twitter and yes, you too MySpace

• Meat versus airway

July

• Like a gift from the salad gods

• A Stroll Down First Avenue

• Sunflowers

• Moonday

• Food searching on Google

• the beauty of this unstimulated employment thing

• Now that…

• Confession time

• Going solo

• MJ Losers

• Cell phone story - the monster purse

• State quarter coding

• This just in….Sarah Palin

• All MJ all the time

• Impacting, again

June

• Janis for Linky

• mp3’ing and summer

• MJ

• Impact and I don’t care if this is a spoiler because - so far the show sucks

• Post poop

• How to celebrate your birthday in high style

• To the dad in my life

• An invitation to a date

• A weekend’s rioting

• June 12

• A big fat element

• Cell phone story - One Life to Live

• Twitter style movie reviewing, round 2

• Twitter style movie reviewing, round 1

• The new kidney, a PSA

• VSattui Syrah 2006

• On sweating

• Webbing, whiskers, jowlishness and vanity

• I’m still not dead

May

• Back to the hospital jiggity jig

• Californie

April

• Sometimes you find justice in the pits

• Health update from down South

• Happy Earrrth Day!

• And my final Earth Day Entry…I am a flower

• World’s Most Important Environmental Issues

• Cell phone story - Volunteering on Earth Day

• Dans une humeur pour la boum!

• A call to action by the Army of Women

• I’m so totally distractible

• I’m supposed to be doing taxes

• Save over $3 Trillion!

• Home again home again jiggedy jig

• I lost my glasses in San Francisco

• Updating things medical

• A second opinion

• California bound

March

• Campanile di San Marco

• PSA:  A Vitamin D tutorial

• Slowly I rise and my walrus Landmark

• Now I am lowly optimal

• When news hits to close to home

• Everything but hot

• We watched Watchmen

• Spring ahead, again

• My stimulus garden

• I’m having an Emily Latella problem

• Edible Arrangements

• Happy Square Root Day!

February

• Oscar’d

• Oscar guessing, v.2009

• My man and meme

• I typealized me

• Snow again

• Just shoot me now

• Play

• On going forward with my head in the sand

• Oscar Pooling 2009

January

• More with the ssssssing

• So much for the inheritance

• Cooking school challenges

• And again with the snow

• That dreaded sssssssss

• Clue #12

• Phone sales

• whitehouse.gov

• It’s all good

• Cheerleader Ninjas

• On getting the girls a dog

• Andrew Wyeth

• The poop has left the building

• And not a drop to spare

• Type A

• Serendipity

• Yikes! - cancellation

• BOb

• Yikes!, the sequel

• Yikes!

• And now the meltdown

• Winter break extended = Summer break shortened

• Teenage Catgirls in Heat

• To this new beginning, an ending

2008

December

• HNY

• The Christmas haul

• The Olympia drive-by

• Cell phone story - Christmas eve snowing

• Christmas mixing

• Cell phone story - quick shots of yes, more snow

• Cell phone story - icicles

• Cell phone story, first day of winter

• One Word

• And again with a snow report

• Cell phone story - Is there such a thing as writing about snow too much?

• Apple pie update

• Hunkering down

• Cell phone story - Baking for heat

• Nine

• Cell phone story - snow report ii

• Snow report

• River

• Too late for your sign

• The little golden sign that angers

• Sue

• Wellies to Venice

• Vampires are the new Harry Potter and other observations

• Stuff I done and stuff I ain’t

• No, I’m not dead yet

November

• Moving forward

• Pretrial to judgment

• Chaiyya Chaiyya

• Bashing Rejjie

• Mutual deceit

• Miriam Makeba

• For now, I’m just going to

• It’s President Obama

• Election Tracking

• Tomorrow’s the day!

• Endorsements

• I’m now insufficient

October

• Kindling

• This whole financial problem

• Cell phone story - sunny autumn day

• Signed Sealed Delivered

• Joe the Plumber

• Samsung’s incredible journey

• Pancake day

• Room to let

• That rss thing was broken and now it’s more betterer

• Because I’m the boss

• Samsung update

• On g droppin’

• Samsung road trip

• Making blurry

September

• Bailing failing

• The opposition

• SNL again with Sarah Palin

• Cell phone story - my ride Red

• I’m just gonna say it….

• ee-eye-ee-eye-oh

• Writing on the wall

• Match-o-Matic II

• Like a bee

• The Internet Overdose Song

• Like burning straw

• VMA - 11:10 pm

• VMA - 10:59 pm

• VMA - 10:49 pm

• VMA - 10:36 pm

• VMA - 10:21 pm

• VMA - 10:07 pm

• VMA - 9:55 pm

• VMA - 9:35 pm

• VMA - 9:24 pm

• VMA - 8:58 pm

• VMA - 8:49 pm

• VMA - 8:40 pm

• VMA - 8:33pm

• VMA - 8:29pm

• Live blogging from the Hole in the Wall

• VMA - 8:23

• Live blogging the VMA

• This season’s odd couple

• Vitamin D

• TWENTY-FIVE

• Spore - sims for microbes

• Where is this coming from?

• The presumptive grandbaby

• Invertebrate sex

August

• Blogger confidentiality

• McPalin

• Stuck in Chicago with 6 million of my best friends

• The close

• Cell phone story - Farmers Market

• Pole updating

• This is not going to end well

• Cell phone story - see my pole

• Our first twofer primary

• Not in my mouth

• Hullo Oz?

• Just two lunatics and one other guy remain

• Come play with me and be my friend

• Breaking news from Georgia…

• 2 favorite California wineries

• This just in…women’s gymnastics

• One more convenience discovered

• Cell phone story - pancakes and fishcakes - a theme

• Cell phone story, Fernet Branca

• Touching down in Olympia

July

• Cell phone story, the air tanker at Bay Bridge

• zzzzzziiiiippppppiiiiinnnnngggggg

June

• Tit for tat

• Anniversary birthday

• ShitPissFuckCuntCockSuckerMotherFuckerandTits

• Cell phone story - a new job for the Christmas tree

• Culinaria

• SoooPERtooth

• I’m going to a birthday party!

• Tim Russert

• Colder than Siberia

• I need help

• Hooray for spellcheck

• Is scíth mo chrob ón scríbainn

• And now for a word from somebody’s sponsor - Palm Oil

• 40 years out and I’m still sad

• This F’ing challenge

• Well…noooobody listens to me

May

• This whole super delegate thing really bugs me

• Cell Phone Story - The Balloonist

• The F-word

• Who left the banana in the bathroom?**

• Mr. Yosuke Nakamura

• Based on disaster response

• Mother’s Day giveaways

• My favorite mom song

• Hodge podging it

• Those pesky super delegates

• re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-defining

April

• Close calls abound

• This is Olympia

• Lester’s version of the 3-2-1 wiki meme

• A found object

• April 5

March

• Drawing attention to us, again

• Out like a lion

• Genetic alliances

• 10,000 years too late

• The skeleton in back

• Brain drift

• Costing a dream machine

• NW tantrums

February

• Have you been missing me?

• And the Oscar for Best Guesser….

• We’re throwing a primary on Tuesday

• Salty Caramels

• It’s what I do

• Breaking plastic bumpers

• Bitching and moaning pays off

• Vote Now, Vote Often - Oscars

• A new age cynic or why I’m voting for Obama, probably, maybe

• I went a’caucusing

• Expect the world to tip

• I like my crow with propane

• Getting gas (or not)

January

• Oscar Pooling 2008

• What has they writ?

• Sweeney Todd

• Cell phone story - flying away

• Going home again….

• Too bad

• 100 movies, AFL style

• When I go to China

• Swinging both ways

• Quenching karan

• Renewing the cold war

• Issues electrical

• While Leonard’s away

• Etch-A-Sketching

• Caucus schmaucus

• I am a liar

• 2008

2007

December

• Uncle Bud lived a fine life

• Cell phone story - The Christmas tree

• Ear candy

• Kooks

• The real thing

• Flooding, an artist’s rendition

• Cell phone story:  Weather in WAshington

November

• Purging, the good kind

• What kind of a liberal am I?

• What a sty

• Sooooo much with the sharing….

• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

• The cow is falling, the cow is falling

• Duff me

• I’m showing signs of leperdom

• Cell phone story - Halloween

October

• Sitting here in the middle of leperville

• Teenager schmeenager

• Our season of reruns

• Voluntary Evacuation

• Electricity

• The barrel-chested man

• Three 21 year olds and a girlfriend

• When the past bites the butt

• Don’t worry America

• Mink

• The replacement

• Little Bobby Tables

• Free pass

• The universe needs to hear this

• Salsa dancing at Labor & Industries

• Rejjie updating

September

• Zoinks!

• Rejjie

• Cell phone story - deli chicken

• Cell phone story - mixing paint

• Now in a continuing series, #2

• Cell phone story - hot food

• I hope someone is paying attention

• Lederhosen and child abuse

• Cell phone story - makin’ coffee

• I see potatohead people

• Finding Steve Fossett

• The miracle at Ca’Flummel

• Cell phone story - dessert

• Party in September!

August

• The full moon is swallowed by a dragon

• Hair hygiene

• Hygiene

• Berto is gone

• Cell phone story - purple vacancy

• No backpacks in the OR?

• The Argyle Sweater

• Meanwhile after a long break

• When I become a super hero

• Weird dreaming

• Peruvian earthquake

• Becoming Jane

• Cell phone story - an evening at the box office

• Sorry, Jenna

• Cell phone story - permitted

• Rooting for your hurricane

• Cell phone story - the butcher

• Hawaii, whammy land

• Cell phone story - road construction

• Cell phone story - trip to the dentist

• Cell phone story - TV shopping

• Brits outta da nort

• Cell phone story - Marjorie getting beautified

July

• Cell phone story - the view from the office

• Out of the freezer

• Cell phone story - Tacoma Narrows Bridge

• Cell phone story - blackbirds

• This is a legitimate offer

• Cell phone story - SeaTac

• My false identity

• Les Nessman’s turkey promotion

• My current dilemma

• Cell phone story - dinosaurs and watermelons

• Kablooey

• Global warming and me

• Harry Potter’s shirt-tale fan

• Young Frankenstein

• Culling the spices

• Third life vacations

• Church of Christian Hatred

• It’s like Randy lives in my head

• dots and dashes

• New shoe hazzard

• Die Hard 4

• This amazing earth…10 facts

• The lagging continues

• Repatrioting

• Eight facts out

• 500 years of women

• Didn’t see that coming

• Delayed expectations

June

• Canine Neurosis

• Not deep enough

• Noise

• Made some changes

• Old time target practice

• Working

• I touched an astronaut’s ass

• I’m a weener!

• My own site gag

May

• Motivational me

• Breakfast dating

• Password is

• Excellence shared

• A traditional start to a three day holiday

• Adolescent trials and tribulations, round 5

• Adolescent trials and tribulations, round 4

• Adolescent trials and tribulations, round 3

• Adolescent trials and tribulations, round 2

• Adolescent trials and tribulations

• KY - the pharmacist and me

• So long suckah

• The hammer and the glass table

• May 15

• Shrek’s big secret

• Sam you have the wrong number

• Drinking prompts and history lessons

• WWDS

• Household repair #344

• Web cultural geography

April

• Mid-century modern

• Major pet peeving

• Haiku profound

• And now for our regularly scheduled earthquake

• Woulda shoulda coulda

• Coming home

• Speaking of naughty children

• Expertise isn’t always a good thing

• And it continues today…..

• So long Sanjaya

• Schools in jeopardy, today

• Ironic karma / Karmic irony

• More of that procrastinating business

• The tax man

• VTi

• Picniking

• Meanwhile in Blogville

• Watching p*rn from my front window

• So close and yet, so far

• On chasing teenaged boys

March

• @flummel.com

• BSOD

• This is an experiment and I am a part of it, sort of

• Photojournalism

• Meanwhile in your kitchen….

• Mike Kretzler, I found you….I think

• wine-ing

• Have I ever mentioned

• A fascinating bit of engineering

• Taxes

• On canning the opposition

• Protesting from Starbucks

• If you are part of my husband’s family

• For the Love of Books

• Did you happen to notice the Rejjie-o-Meter to the right?

• Speaking of cooking

• On why I am a bad cook

• Whoring for a Wii

• Meanwhile at the Lincoln Memoiral

• Here we go a courtin’

• And we’ve got tickets!

• Living on hold

• Meanwhile aboard the International Space Station….

February

• The bottom of the world

• Oscar Pooling 2007

• The diamond ring on the bottom of the pool

• We’re outta here

• Meanwhile in Paris….

• Travelin’ Man

• Deep cleansing

• Diapered astronauts

• Chamber of Commercing

• Meanwhile in the White House…

• The gavel doesn’t fall far from the bench

• From the neck up

• Reason #456 to hate the Super Bowl

• Meanwhile in Seattle…

• Don’t forget to Oscar yourself

• Life

January

• Karan’s Little Oscar Pool, 3 or 4

• We need to grow balls

• Living in shadows

• I feel like a pioneer or maybe a Neanderthal…

• Grey’s Anatomy

• Jelly donuts

• Snowing vs melting

• Tomorrow’s the day

• Hat throwing

• And again with the snow

• The call Karan project

• Just like Blondie says…

• On having weather

• More stormin’

• On house naming

• Widow-makers

• The date is set so mark your calendars, head to Seattle and be prepared to Par-Tay

• 2007

2006

December

• Distractions

• I tried hard not to like him

• Christmas gift list

• When the Cosmos screams

• It’s baaack….

• Nothing new yet

• It’s a dirty life

• Thrown back 100 years

• Shelley is my new best friend

• Blood Diamond

• Big winds

• 8 with one click

• Finally…the payoff

• My little lamb

• What I’m not buying this year

• The most depressing Christmas letter, ever

• How to bring down the wrath of an entire school

• Slow dancing on the precipice

• Have you heard about the WASL?

• The bible and anthroposophy

• And in this corner

November

• On thinking forward

• Again with the bragging

• Frozen bragging rights

• A mostly not homemade Thanksgiving

• I love sushi!

• OK…because you asked

• The Christmas Card

• I don’t wanna get dooced

• More police action at the Flummel house

• New Toys

• Abyss slipping

• Not exactly jubilant

• Karan is happy today

• Voting with no booth

• Wet we got….and lots of it

• Rejjie’s got a doppelgänger

• I saw dead people

• Make your own damn tombstone

October

• So what’s next?

• Trong and Rani

• A wildfire rages

• Riso’s wee friend

• Sick, part deux

• Sixteen

• She said, I heard

• Our long long wait

• Case number 06-9830 - closed

• Case number 06-9830

• Bravia

• It’s shakin’ in Hawaii

• Congress’s Shameful Retreat from American Values

• Nice start

• Hello Little Bird!

• Frank on Oprah

• Happy Thanksgiving Canada

• On being undertall

• I sing the blogger electric *

• Leaping into the unknown

• No more T&A coffee

• Trader Joe’s and Two Buck Chuck

• The peel is on

• The beauty of rehab

September

• Again with Rejjie’s school…

• On feeding little kids

• Quarantine

• I didn’t think he cared…

• DVRing

• PEI

• The new job

• What’s what?

• Harriet

• Warning - I’m going to swear in this entry

• Give or take a millennium or two

• Clear the boards

• la Biennale de Venezia l’architettura

• I heard it on TV this morning

• I awoke to NPR

• Mike the Mover

• And it starts again…

• Refused

• I’m starting to get worried here…

• Labor Day

• Impeach

August

• Guess what I did last night…

• Haiku two.too.to

• Haiku me

• The world wants to save Olympia

• How I got excluded by the power moms

• The Olympia Pet Parade

• The Raccoons that ate Olympia

• Oly chat

• Frying Pan Fudge

• Public anger

• We’re celebrating in Olympia!

• 123 5 3

• Trastevere di Roma

• Let’s Pretend

• How to avoid trouble

• Barney becomes berserk - bites bitty bears

• The Meez us is famous

• Burning for spots

• We are available

• Here’s something that will shock you….

July

• And Mel speaks…

• Need espresso in Olympia?

• Riding The Donut

• Astros will trade Roger Clemens to the Red Sox for Manny Ramirez

• Meez

• I am such a great aunt!

• My naming conventions on Flummel, Flummer, Flummo

• Return those envelopes

• Proof of my mashed potato couchiness

• Potty Mouth

• When life gives you lemons….

June

• The new diet

• Awake

• Positive

• Look for two small puncture wounds

• I’m outta here

• US v Italy

• It 10 pm on a Friday night

• Bloomsday

• And yesterday’s dodge

• The triplets

• Cherries for Eliz

• A shocking observation

• Grandship

• Dessert Tonight?

• The hunt begins

• Absence with malice

May

• Lahar Lahar Lahar

• Jews Must Wear Yellow - Revisited

• So long sucker

• The weekly total

• On sleeping over

• Again with the stupid test

• Duh Vinci Code

• Da Da Vinci tours

• Stamina

• Conferencing

• Finding Ryan Chicovsky

• Repairs

• 10 things I only say out loud to Leonard

• Just so you won’t weep in public

April

• Recycling day

• 3 variable humor test

• House of doors

• Near redemption

• Chernobyl’s disaster

• Sometimes life just sucks

• That stupid test, part 5

• How to thrill me

• When panic sets in

• From words to pictures

• That stupid test, part 4

• We dun designated

• When the Cowboy pledges his full support, well, things happen

• Updating accomplished

• Earth from above

• Do you have something to say to me?

• Something about a Geisha

• First I was mortally wounded then I was dead

• It’s got a nice beat and it’s easy to dance to

• Ice Age:  The Meltdown

• April Fool

• Save me, I’m getting micromanaged

March

• Commence with hair pulling out

• One year

• National Right-to-Ride Carpool Coalition

• Apply sing song

• 16 Blocks

• Absenteeism

• From the vocal stylings of Mr. Lester Norton

• Binario hazards in La Spezia

• Stop douching the protester…

• V for Vendetta

• St. Patrick’s Day

• unspoken words

• Saving

• Wiki Wednesday

• The stupid test, part 3

• The stupid test, part 2

• Who said MySpace.com was a’wash in disaffected teens?

• The stupid test, part 1

• In my wee childish heart

• QE

• Twisted thinking

• Group hugging

• Chris Bliss

• March Snow

• Pigs is pigs

• Joke’s meme

• Ad space

• Recounting

• And for most correct responses for an academy award ceremony…

• Karan’s Little Oscar Pool

• Ashes and Lent

February

• Brain kabloowie

• I’m a lifer

• Unfortunately

• Plotting Presidents Day

• TV-b-Gone

• This will blow your mind

• I thought I was so over this story

• Five bottles and she’s out

• I so totally forgot to mention

• Time suck, the sequel

• Time suck

• I don’t want to say this too loud

• A Love Song for Bobby Long

• 3 best

• In about two hours

• thuja plicata

• The army’s on the phone

• An outsider’s observation

• Life with the girl

• Silence

January

• 12th Man

• From this day forward

• Time in the dark

• Blow out imminent

• Attila

• Today it felt like winter broke

• Stupid nazis

• West Wing

• Babycake McMuffin makes his appearance

• The Haggis Hunt is on…

• Record making rain

• Desktop

• Re-Pink

• Green pigs and silken goat milk

• a small confession from a small mind

• Because I can’t stop myself….more neighbor gossip….

• To extend the “boundaries of freedom”

• Remember the Maine?

• NASA television

• Joe and Jackie

• Rain Gauge

• The Journal from The Baker in Homer Alaska

• In search of Robert Kerlin

• Just for the asking

• The worst thing ever

• When does an old friend change too much?

• Quack Quack Quack

• South Park Us

• It was a long long long night, a really long night

• Two Thousand Six

2005

December

• Purple hair

• Addiction and withdrawal

• I get funny viruses

• Hey I said that three years ago…

• Eye

• Rejjie’s broken arm

• It was a big mouthy kinda day

• Doomed before the pitch

• Some good news this way cometh

• Some day when I’m rich and famous

• Richard Pryor

• Brokeback Mountain

• I’m a beta tester

• My own 2005

• Wax on - wax off

• NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE

• Who cares snow report

• Snow Report 8:55

• Snow Report 4:56

• Snow Report 23:01

• Snow Report 21:23

• One more thing…

• Snow Report 15:33

• Snow Report 13:54

• Snow Report 13:26

• Snow Report 12:50

• Snow Report 11:47

• Snow Report 11:11

• Snow Report 10:43

• Snow flakes are falling

• I’ve decided to blog the snow

• Delicate and shell-like

November

• Beware little hairs and splinters

• Like before, except plus one

• It did snow, eventually

• She has returned

• First Snow 2005

• Oh…about that trip to California…

• τελειωμένος

• Turkey Flu

• I just wanted to point out

• First plan

• My little guidebook

• Remember when you were a kid

• Actors that automatically insure a movie viewing

• Here’s to a long and happy life

• A small break from my irregularly scheduled memories of Italy

• My mug

• On listening to the melodic

• Officially scolded and offending entry closed

• West winging it

• Don’t take a knife to the Vatican

• Send yourself a future message

October

• Boo!

• Yummmmmm

• Moving Roma

• Packing is all math

• I have returned

September

• Not dead, yet

• How to send me to the great state of depression

• My first real man

• A plan for the next disaster

• Déjà vu all over again?

• Mostly I wonder why is this happening?

• Living and dying in NOLA

August

• A Cell Phone for Rejjie

• Camille

• I have so much to say about my situation

• grrrrrr

• Music from 1973

• Venetian glass is for more than pretty beads

• Pat’s jihad

• Cruising IMDB

• Periodontal disease revisited

• In the event that this even makes it to the level of consideration…

• Blackberry blues

• Cordless mousiness

• Death at amazon

• Get ready for the draft

• Foggies

• Without alcohol or chemical enhancements

• If it’s August, I must be alone

• Flying the coup

• For all those thousands who asked

• Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to be petty

• Clean sweeping

July

• bunnies and stuff

• Netflix Battles

• Squeezing too much into too little

• Thank you Brian

• Except for that having to die and everything

• Beamed Up

• Buying crap

• Tut-tut

• HP is home

• HP 6

• buzzzzzzzzzzz off

• ohwattanasseyeyam

• My new best friend

• Seats still available

• Jonesin’

• Terrorism

• Comet Bashing

• So long Justice O’Connor

• Drop

• Oh Canada

June

• Alex P. Keaton

• Are there PACs among us?

• Guess what I’m not watching right now…

• Just to prove that I’m still alive and kicking

• Graduating

• This just in….

• Caterpillar invasions

• Tsunami this, tsunami that

• The next time I feel like committng a crime

• This is a piece of my favorite photo of me

• Mememovies

• I’ve got my suitcase packed and my travel hat on…

• Some upcoming and signifiant dates

• Cablegram

• Homeland security means different things to different people

• My quest for shoes

• Sometimes life isn’t pretty

• Just for Mary…

• Rossi quits

• There is no evidence

• More reading

• Sometimes I’m so clever

• Nothing to say

• I’m baaaack

May

• Today is Memorial Day

• Vamoosing

• How the lightsaber works

• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall

• Missing Figpaste

• No, I’m really not a wine snob

• Kissably soft hands

• Slow Burn

• Again with the tragedy thing

• Volunteering in the face of tragedy

• The bad taste of potential catastrophe

• More on the continuing saga of my own personal cease and desist order

• Night time alert

• Fresh from Sister Anan

• Overstuffed

• Fits and starts

• I gave ‘em away

• Music to soothe the savage beasts

• Jeopardy catagory….Stupid

• Just in case…

• I’ve been cease and desisted!

• La poser, continued

• La poser

• Objects in the mirror…

• Ben’s BB’s

• Brilliance shines again

• I’m no Ebert - The Flummel Sunflower scale

• Redo Roma

• Run run run away

• Waiting out a degree

• LVII

• Nearly no more…..

April

• Not shufflin’ off to Buffalo

• Twinkle toes ….

• The McMuffin meme

• Karan took a bite outta crime

• Fumo bianco

• The Bielikowski boys.

• Black smoke

• Please invite me to dinner or I’ll show up anyway

• Yesterday I had a full schedule.

• My $30 fiddle

• Once, I was a Barbara Streisand stalker

• Green trees

• Come on down!

• 11 days a place to crash

• Toujours à portée de la main!

March

• The Vaticam

• using ed

• Comment spamming and updates

• Just ten minutes ago,

• Holy Acres

• It’s Easter

• Adagio ‘ing

• More of my personal mess

• Messes Abound

• Brain death and Congress

• Lá Fhéile Pádraig

• Image 1

• The BIG time in small spaces

• Because my middle name is procrastinate

• It’s finally happened

• The W loving Welsh from Wales

• Siquid mantica non capit, domi relinquendum est

• My favorite Rejjie photo

• Rejjie and her stickers

• Rejjie looks away

• DOMA

• All is quiet on the western front

• Volcano Banging

• You know what’s pissing me off in the news?

• On going wireless

• Pimping Tea

• On being married to a sixth grader

• On crying in public

• Oh forsooth - or to parent a teenage girl

• “The Drugs I Need”

• Quiz me, again

• Setting the table

• Taboret vs Trebuchet

• I’m not going to call up the obvious analogies

February

• Brains

• Speaking of movies…update

• Speaking of movies…

• I’m no Ebert, iii

• 273 and counting

• Will work for insurance

• Shrink wrap your dead.  Shrink wrap your dead.

• I’m no Ebert, ii

• On whiskers…

• As of Saturday morning, I am one with victory

• Miss me?

• February 2nd

• Hybrid

• AmazonPrime

• I’m no Ebert

January

• Mamó Frances

• Pick pick pick

• The apocalypse must be nighing soon

• We bagged a big one!

• It’s growing

• Sniff

• Decision making made easy

• Guess what happened?

• My new best friend John

• Daisy inspires!

• Oh so soft

• Ravens get Rick

• A cat hole

• “It’s a GIRL!

• I forgot to mention

• Spending my Monday Waiting for FrontPage

• This weekend I was in Troy, in the Carribean, and in NYC

• One word about the state of our gubernatorial election

• Tips on sending aid

• Hurray for Sea Gypsies

2004

December

• 2005…oh how happy I am to greet thee….

• 2004 was almost unbearably sad

• Figuring out the numbers

• Trebuchet vs Taboret

• Scared of Santa?

• Enough of the complaining

• Em-Dashing Through the Snow

• Evil One or Evil Two

• Find the cracks, hire a hack

• World Peas

• Oh Time…why why why

• Hello hazardous waste…

• Documenting Fame (and near brushes with it)

• The Wall of Separation

• We’ve gone all Florida in WAshington

• Freedom of Religion

• FwordFwordFwordFwordFwordFwordFwordFwordFword

• He’s at it again

• Give a banned book for Christmas or books for the narrow-minded

• Another brush with fame

• Christmas Mmemeemmeeme

• Quits or not quits

• Rejjie and the night visitor

• Santasizings

• Peeing in orange, or pink or green…does it really matter?

• Fatto!

• Big old stink pot

November

• OK, I’ll say it

• The Thanksgiving report from a big fat turkey

• But before I go…

• Now’s the time

• Whatever

• November 22

• Never mind…

• Motion sickness

• Who’s yer governor, revisited or part deux

• Why I’m an addict and I’ll always be an addict

• Another one joins the family

• Holy Toast!

• who’s yer governor?

• My little quitter

• Ashcroft is outta there!

• Singing with the swans

• The new geography

• On losing

• Punching

October

• Young choices

• Know the facts before you act

• I’m a big time suggestion maker

• Sandy Goals

• The Vote

• Do you remember when

• The end of a friendship

• Last Thursday …

• I’m not dead…..yet and

• She’s a’gonna blow!

• Small comments on debating

• I have returned

September

• Road Trip!

• Our volcano

• 200 Questions

• The showdown at the new job

• Guildenstern & Rosencrantz/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

• I’m getting me some culture tonight

• Rats

• Connecting in Italy

• JUST STOP!!!!!

• Dork-a-rama

• On voting for losers

• The neighbor’s trash

• Mouth breathing

• I go bump in the night

• First Ballot

• Gifted children reconsidered

• Stats

• More than you ever wanted to know about our TV reception

• The New Primary

• 1,000 dead soldiers and counting

• Some itty bitty (read petty) things about me….

• The Name Game

• I’m thinking positive thoughts

• The other convention

• The best news!

August

• Murder in Millican, the rest of the story

• My favorite mp3 today

• The Naming

• The TV that Wasn’t

• Wondering in Seattle

• Ahhhhh…..so busy…..so tired…..

• Oh my…..

• To link or not to link

• Little girls who sparkle - literally

• The Umbilical Brothers

• The republican auditor

• Googlisious

• That look

• Random recent thoughts

• This is not a dog blog

• This is not a cat blog

• Google does it again

• The Cowboy freezes time

• Giant driveway salmon

• My favorite hurricane

• OHMYGOD WHAT HAVE I DONE???????

• On commenting on comments

• My metaphorical rash

• Half done at best

• Note #87 to self

• What’s not to trust?

• Life with new kittens

• ohboyohboyohboy

• I nostri nomi sono…

• Tales in Ten - 1

• The Cowboy Speaks

• Thing One, Thing Two

• The Sea is Watching

• Gym Guilt

• Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

• Water water everywhere

• Dry

• Eatery #1

• And straight from the lightning rod state of Florida

• On Golf

July

• ChuckIt!

• Plog™ Me

• 1 Million - Count ‘em - 1 Million

• Whooping it up in Seattle

• Clam Chowder Surprise!

• Oh give me Barack Obama any day…

• Last night in Boston

• Preparazioni Italiane

• I know that summer is here because

• The Scene is Over

• Today I want to give up my full-time job

• It’s a tad warm today

• The day that Terry Fotaya died

• I’m in the money!

• Dang…he says it just ain’t so….

• Four More Coming to the Harem

• Hey Girlie-Man!

• I have a plan!

• Overheard at the White House

• The Cowboy sticks it to the UNFPA, again

• Profiling the Fight

• Bookworming

• Commenting and Captcha

• Chaos

• Freely Associating

• Finally

• And so the tradition continues….

• Olfactory Titillations

• The Drive-In

• RSS Feeding

• Facing the Wind

• Going to Cold Mountain

• Use your spidey-sense

• Trading Lessons

• Darwin may select but we pay

• Only One More Year to Go

June

• Let there be light

• More bandwidth theft issues averted

• More on the process….

• I am so Freakin’ Cool!

• Big Stepping

• In my mind’s ear

• The Great Migration Continues

• The Pain and Itch of Conversion

• Hotness

• Testing New Waters

• Father’s Day 2004

• Stealing my bandwidth

• I seek a return to the quill

• Little bits

• That Journey

• Riding Nekid

• Grogg

• On Ronald Reagan

• OooooooooDiiiiiiiiiin

• And it gets personal ….

May

• 18

• 1955

• HTML to EE, mebbe

• Annually every five years or so

• The good fight

• My drawing class

• Somebody’s knockin’

• Think you’re special?

• Don’t steal this brilliant idea

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase

• Carb Awareness Day

• Whining and ailing

• To enthuse and motivate

• No Surprises

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - May 14

• Another Garage Sale

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - May 13

• If you wanna a virus, go to school

• Barb the Guest Blogger

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - May 10

• Cracked!

• Hey, let’s simulate sex and torture!

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - May 4

• Like a bug to the zapper

• Bears and Art

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - May 2

• Meat

April

• Roundabouts

• Bwaaaaaaaah

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 29

• Balls

• Well, it’s all over for wee John

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 28

• Let’s play break the game

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 26

• Petal Showers

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 25

• I know where I was today, but it’s not where I wanted to be….

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 21

• Bad John Kerry, BAD!

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 19

• Not that I’m selfish or anything…

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 16

• I’m no weeble

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 10

• A Journey Home

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 9

• Strained Rice

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 7

• Continuing Education

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 3

• Blue Bananas

March

• I’m just saying…

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase - April 1

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 31

• Riso the always empty dog, a photo essay

• Red beady eyes

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 30

• Boarding School

• Proof positive

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 28

• So, where have you been Karan?

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 23

• And the gavel falls…

• Registrazioni Tecniche

• Just like facing the principal

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 19

• And on this first anniversary

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 18

• A tiny memory

• Recall the hillbilly!

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 17

• Getting married in Corvallis

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 16

• Mr. Notorius

• Today’s bitty Italian phrase: March 15

• On Writing a Term Paper

• Madrid

• Ch-ch-ch-changes

• On being a pariah

• Duty Schmooty

• Adjust This!

• Super Tuesday

February

• It’s Oscar Time!

• I’m going Pollyanna on y’all

• Two Vancouvers and The Passion

• Lennyfish

• PETA

• The Naked Lady is Done

• It’s Splitsville

• On Mothering a Delinquent

• Who is looking for Andy?

• Weekend Movies

• On Caucusing

• WAshington Caucus Day

• I want granny boob and I want it now

• VPing

• Janet’s Over-Exposure

• It’s been so very long

• Hello?  Pot calling kettle….

January

• Deception Pass

• That old food chain problem

• Art thieving

• OK, I’ll say it aloud

• Bit’s ‘n Pieces

• Captain Kangaroo

• Hospital, Hospital

• Pete Rose speaks up

• On Making Holidays Convenient

• The Great White Hope

• Alien Roses

• The last of it will go today

• Parenthood is not for wimps

• As the world melts

• Pile it high

• This just in…prayers have been answered

• Aragorn gets his

• We of Gethen

• We’ve Got SNOW!

• Happy New Year!

2003

December

• Random thinking and catching up

• On breaking more than even

• Septal Daze

• Talk about timing….

• So, maybe not a new masterpiece…

• ‘Tis the season

• The Man in the Pit

• Keiko Dies

• A new master emerges

• On seeking support

• Sleep Like a Princess

• It’s Brewing

• Dicks in the News

• It’s Done

• Well, today’s the day

• The Britni/El Jay Watch

• That First Amendment

• Rescue Remedy

November

• Young Love

• The Sand Creek Massacre

• I just have to share this email message….

• Karan Got a New Car!

• Sad Anniversaries

• Clean Sweep

• Consultation Day

• What I really want….

• Creepo Jacko

• Risk Taking Maybe Gone Awry

• Hollywood Walk of Fame

• On Being Pregnant

• Fruitcake

• Rock On!

• Opps, I forgot

• Just because you all wondered…

• Del Shannon captured my misery

• Playing Catch-Up and One Nasty Perv

October

• The Still Raging Fires and the Coming Aftermath

• It Continues, 12:18 pm

• It Just Keeps Coming, 9:30 pm

• Fire Fire Everywhere, 8:40 pm

• The Sun is Up and It’s 8:25 am

• FIRE!

• Birthday Success!

• The Birthday and Hateful Thinking

• PTWPWS

• WPW

• In and Out

• Kyu Sakamoto

• Symptoms as Warnings

• Driving Demented

• Meyers-Brigging

• Turning Anonymous

• Eating the UPS Man One Bite at a Time

• You heard it here first….well, maybe not, but it bears repeating

• Fingers in My Ears, Going LaLaLaLa

• Tiger Week

• California Ballot

• Tanking

• My Nieman Marcus Shopping List

September

• Do You Want to Know a Secret?

• Body Art

• Kane is Leaving Me Blue

• Bookshelves

• Aunt Sis

• What kind of thinker are you?

• Loooocy, you have some ‘splainin’ to do

• I’m Busy Too!

• Not One Jiggle-Bellied Face Painter in the Bunch

• It sucks to be #401

• This just in…

• Happy Birthday Mom!

• Does Not Use Time Wisely

• Blanket Politics in WAshington

• OK, Let’s Talk Dingy Grays

• More on September 12th

• Oggi Il Mio Cervello Esploso

• + Two and one day

• + Two

• On Omega

• Toaster Universe

• One of My Sideshow Tricks

• Tortoise Wrangling

• The Mystery That is the Bidet

• China and Platinum

• Eve Day

August

• I Survived, We All Survived!

• Happy Pandemonium

• Lazarus

• Fox News is a Bunch of Big Stupid Doo Doo Heads

• Outta Breath….

• Western Union

• Yahooooooooohooooo

• Save My Feet

• Breaking News - Stubbies

• Porky: That’s All Folks

• From the Crow’s Nest

• On Cheffing

• Tomorrow!!!

• Back to School Shopping

• Good-bye TypePad

• I’m Licensed

• Allegating Things Sexual

• Cheater Cheater

• Mariners Redeemed

• Don’t Be Distracted

July

• 2:51 am

• The Army’s Fire

• It’s F’ing Hot

• It’s a Hopeful Week

• Real Tears

• 8:41 pm

• I’m beginning to feel hopeful….

• It is July 26, 2003 and

• Farewell Day and DNS Wars

• Hey You….I Hate You

• Animals in the News

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation

• Darwin Just Might Have Been Right

• Big Guns

• We’re Getting UnLocked

• On Writing to the Tooth Fairy

• On Meeting Bob

• To Sleep

• We have a homegrown presidential candidate

• The Chaperone

• Circus Ponies

• Duty Duty Duty

• There is an end to all things

• Day Two…So Close….

• No Jurisprudence for Me

• Juror Life

• Throwing My Support

• Post 4

• The 4th of July

• Epiphany

• Woo Hoo!!!

• Oh Happy Day!!

• Life as an ostrich

June

• RIGHT NOW!

• Mike and Rick

• Playful is Gone

• Robot Shallow

• Hulking Milk

• Strom Thurmond

• Summer Sorrows at the Airport

• Lester Maddox is Dead

• Bugs-B-Gone

• Dannielle

• Search Results

• Day-O

• Just an observation

• Motor Vehicleing

• On why I’ll never be rich

• David Nelsons of the world watch out!

• Mrs. Peeper vs. Riso

• He’s not my Father Father’s Day

• For my own impaired gift hunters

• Forget al Qaeda, we’ve got bugs a comin’

• It’s the Pox Sir, Raise the Yellow Flag

• Mitigating

• The glory that is home ownershit

• Hot Air

• True Confessions of an Overblogger

• Cork

• Subway explodes in Olympia

• The 1994 Honda Civic LX

May

• First Born

• Dodging Bullets and Perverts

• Honoring the Dead

• Hay Pa, thar makin’ fun of usins!

• Boo!

• That Squirrel….

• Regarding my career as a rock star

• Beer

• Gratuities

• On Being Kinky

• Harry Truman

• Wildlife Observation Time

• My Evil Chair and Movie Reviewing

• Erica Comes to Olympia

• The BIG Cure

• Surprise at the Surprise Party, Photographic Efforts and Mothers Day

• Deep, Profound and Life-Altering Art Day

• Some Secret This Way Comes

• shhhhhhhh!

• I See Dead People

• Yellow Ribbons

• I Am About to Become Super Baker!

• Crystal Brame

• Gravity Wins

• C. elegans and NPR

April

• Except for That One Thing

• Avril

• What I Once Knew as Fact

• The 2003 Procession of the Species

• Earthquakes, Boats and Cats

• Fountain Mischief

• It’s Earth Day!

• Poor Kitty

• A List of Make Me Laugh CDs

• Repeating Myself

• Hair Dooing

• That Dame

• Taxes Done, Letter Written

• I Can Release My Baited Breath

• Not AGAIN!

• The Mystery of Shoe Slapping Explained

• Toppling

• Good Stuff

• Seven Every Minute

• David Bloom

• Parenting Made Simple

• And the question is….

• Fool!

March

• On Being God-Like

• Another First

• Balance

• Children and the Iraqi War

• Sweet Teeth and Sticky Hugs

• Oscaring

• Housekeeping Note

• Little Chirping Bird

• I’m All Filled Up

• Modern Day Protesting 102

• Modern Day Protesting 101

• Disaster Man

• Senator Robert Byrd:  ‘Today I Weep for My Country’

• It’s Lucky Charms Day

• Dump it Out, Burn it Up, Send it Back

• Free Oscar Kit

• No Vote on Horse’s Ass

• 124 Years Young

• Oscar Night

• Something’s Afoot

• Friday Five - Finally, one I know the answers to….

• Welcome back d,e,c

• Ouh…gt m th morphin

• Dropping Dead

• Bwahahahahaa

• You’ve Got Mail!

• What Rejjie thinks is funny

February

• Shake Shake Shake Anniversary

• Dateline….February 26, 2003

• Murder in Millican

• Mark the Calendar

• Family Politicos

• I’m getting really worried now….

• Snore

• Time to Wake Up!

• Boil and Eat Your Heart Day

• WAshington Politics

• I’m a Poor Patient

• My New Desk

• I am NOT a Stupid Bitch

• I Just Want My Share

• I am a victim of wanton deleting….

• Beat the Box Office

• I’m a Pomegranate

• Imagined Control

• Great Sadness

January

• Jan 31, 2003

• The Mechanics of Sex

• Mrs. Peeper, That Crazy Lady Next Door

• 9/11 Fallout

• The Iron Chef

• Gaudi’s Towers

• Migration and Haikus

• Cash Management

• Selma Hayek

• The Golden Globe Awards

• The National Sport of Iran

• Kaugummi

• The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Shut

• ISPeeing

• Gethen

• Are We There Yet?

• Stinky Fish Bridge Revisited

• But Mauaaaam….

• My Old Blue Volvo

• 010203

2002

December

• A List

• New Year Tulips

• Resolution Time

• Spection

• Blue Collar and Prison Bound

• Awfuqit

• Christmas and Crafts

• Note to Self…

• OK, I’m Grown-Up Now

• Breaking News

• Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation Settlement

• Which Domestic Goddess Are You?

• It is a Good Day

• United Airlines

• I Godda Colb in ma Dose

• Busted

• Late Night - Early Morning TV

• Where Did Your Soul Originate?

• Ray Wallace is My Hero

• Parlons de moi (let’s talk about me)

• Karma Smirking

• Ain’t Love Grand?

• Survivor

November

• I’ll Be Howling at the Moon

• Our Bookshelf

• The Mousetrap

• Cranky Baby

• The Word is OUT

• I Just Can’t Leave it Alone

• Banking Gone Bad

• Be Careful What You Ask For….

• Bluster Me

• Not Grant Writing

• Chum

• I’m Bad

• Value Bestowing is Hard and Too Easy

• The Party

• A Farewell to Arms

• Using Language and Painting Pictures

• Oy, It’s Been a Long Long Week

October

• Daisy

• YAHOO Angels!!!

• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

• Little Bit More Today

• Soccer Played for Beauty

• Anil Dash

• I’m Rich!!

• Ketchup

• The Big 1 - 2!

• Searching

• Payback!!

• Conspiracy Building

• Insure Me

• Jimmy Carter

• Tuxedo Terrors

• Country Roads

• Collecting Things

• WAshington Names

• Today is Not Friday

• Resurrections

• Dear President Cowboy….

• Murder Most Foul!

• Celebrity

September

• Aging Eyes

• Napster

• Language Evolves, Even if I Don’t

• Megan’s Sad Choice

• Conversations Gone Horribly Wrong

• Monosyllabic Speech Patterns

• The Bus Stop

• Odd Bits

• Teeth

• My Grandmother

• More

• 9/11

• EMS

• The Fifth Annual Oakville Zucchini Jubilee

• Il est fini!

• Fall Preview Season

• My Friend the Fan Dancer

• Not Drinking Mojitos

August

• Harmonic Convergence

• Poop Patrol

• Funky Fries

• Car-O-Scoping

• Things Electronic

• OK OK OK

• The Pain and Itch of Insomnia

• Vegetarians

• Cable TV

• Knitting Hysterics

• Fashion Sense

• Journaling

• The Evolution of Electronic Dreaming

• One Woman, Two Hearts

• Sweet Baby Michael

• Knitting Maven

• Cinderella or Single Again?

• W32.Klez.H@mm

• Unworthiness

• But Wait, There’s More…

• Frosty Larcenies

• The Rolling Requiem

• Ex-Patriotizing

July

• Olympia

• The Zen of Sewing?

• Giving Up the Old Ways

• Commercials in Space

• Super Glue

• Summer Game Fun

• As

• It’s Hot, Again

• Remote Controlling

• Connectivity

• Torture

• Take My Books, Please

• Banjoism

• Jello

• The Little Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

• Hot

• Evil Doer

• Flummery

• Changes

• Target Boobies

• Poop

June

• Kitchen Gadgets

• On Being Canadian

• Oops!

• Driving School

• Spaghetti Wars.

• Two days in a row!

• Today is my birthday.

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