The Piffle Lecture

Our humble abode, complete with shelves in the closet, is a regular tornado site.  A very small tornado, but this wind was named Weekend Neglect.  My cleaning habits, always laborious and lethargic, are rarely squeezed into the small space of time we are home on Saturday and Sunday.  I am (self) banished from the house […]

Le Bebe is a bad model. She flatters everything she wears, of course, but she alternately tries to eat the camera, squints for it, or ignores it. This results in pictures of her grabbing hand, blurred face, or a vague Jubilee-shaped streak moving away.
These are the babylegs.

This is Jubilee wearing the […]

Hector the Beta, after a life in our household spanning four whole months, passed on.  His death is attributed to a sad accident during a water change.  He was belly-up the next day.
So…I need a new fish.   I could get a female Beta and name her Briseis, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briseis) but female Betas are so ugly and […]

I’ve had a machine for almost four years now, and this morning I just did my first project on it. It was my 16th birthday present, but that didn’t inspire me, apparently. But where birthday didn’t do anything, Jubilee did. So I made her a pair of babylegs. You’ve got to […]

Ok, suppose, hypothetically, just some random person who doesn’t look anything like me or sound like me or in any way resemble me in any identifiable way were to spend $65 for six diapers. Would you think them odd?
Oh yeah, me too.
There is a site ( http://www.diaperswappers.com/forum/index.php ) to which some crazy people get […]

Last night there was a wild, thunder-crashing, lightning-blinding, wind-howling, branches-crushing-things, rain-drowning storm. Why our power was spared, I do not know. Most of our town as well as the surrounding towns lost their power. But our alarm clock went off at the appointed time and the lights switched merrily on.
Today it is […]

Hello, I am an exercise fanatic.  Not the marathon, Iron Woman (is that an event?  in this PC age, probably), skinny minny type by any means, but very dedicated to walking or (brief) jogging every day.  My body is very addicted to the pleasant feeling of being well exercised.
The other day, however, I realized I […]

Yet another Tuesday has rolled around, and I am again avoiding my drawing homework. Tomorrow is class. Work accomplished since last Wednesday: zero. Colored pencils are all very fun in class, but at home I am uninspired. Perhaps the interruptions break the fragile thread of concentration my poor head attempts. […]

There’s a baby crawling the woodwork. I can hear the cloths tumbling in the dryer. I’ve been trying to get through Augustine’s Confessions during nursing sessions. It isn’t working well. My mind wanders, Jubilee demands my attention, my mind wanders again.
Yesterday evening worship was a report from Pastor Shade on the […]