Blue Teddy Blog

Shopping list and cold season

2012-01-25T12:11:00.000-06:00

This post is (as usual) a weird mishmash of musings. A brief Facebook exchange with a casual friend reminded me of my need to go to a liquor store. I need to go to the liquor store for two reasons. Maybe three. First, I need liquor. For my mother's sore throat tonic (recipe to follow). Second, I need liquor. Peppermint Schnapps, Kahlua, Amaretto or Goldschlager, or somthing like that, to go

A thought

2011-12-18T22:15:00.000-06:00

I label it 'thinking'. No, this was just something that was too long for a tweet and too long as a status update on Facebook, so now it's a blog post. Remember in the old days when comic book editors throught we needed little arrows to tell us what sequence the panels on a comic book page were supposed to come in? Remember a little later when letterers artfully used sound effects, narration,

A moment of blazing insight

2011-11-02T11:52:00.000-05:00

I just had to share this story of me being very proud of myself. Last night, I was prepping a lecture about tone for my General Phonetics class. And I decided, as long as I was doing it, to put together a chart of "all" the ways people have to indicate tone. The class is about the IPA, so of course we have to talk about Chao tone letters, but Chinese scholarship doesn't often use those, so I

Footie socks are a waste

2011-10-17T13:49:00.000-05:00

So remember the dead car battery adventure, which ended with me buying socks at 8:30pm that night. Part of the need for socks was the at-the-time-impending cooler weather, which would eventually necessitate the wearing of actual shoes. Which would necessitate the wearing of actual socks. So I bought socks. Well, I thought I was so smart. For the 'transitional' weather, when it's too warm to

Adventures in Healthcare and Automobile Ownership

2011-09-23T17:34:00.000-05:00

Wow, a double-whammy post! Okay, first healthcare. I seem to have neglected to post about the latest Unpleasant Medical Procedure, so here's the story. I forget what I have blogged about, so here it is in a nutshell. Apparently I'm going anemic. Since I seem to have a 'normal' diet, from the point of view of not obviously having no source of iron, the only obvious reason for me to be going

The upshot is, I still don't know how real people buy new cars

2011-08-16T20:43:00.000-05:00