Researchers now believe that first born children are blessed with higher IQ’s than the rest of the lot and I’m a little upset about this. I am the last of three children, so this makes me the stupidest. I’m not saying it isn’t true, I’m just saying it’s not fair. It does seem to explain a lot of things…like why I just can’t seem to understand how x and y can be worked into a mathematical equation. Aren’t those letters? Or how Janie convinced me that there were giraffes in …

It’s not often that I find myself browsing the transcripts to Larry King Live. And by not that often, I mean not more than once a day. While on my lunch break this afternoon, I came across this transcript from June 18th when Larry interviewed Judith Sheindlin. You might know her better as Judge Judy.
Towards the end of the interview a caller asked her opinion on the current White House scandal regarding thousands of “missing” emails that had either been lost or deleted. Her answer …

“What are you doing?”
“What?”
“Are you just eating meat? Are you eating meat in a bag?”
“Well, when you say it like that it doesn’t sound so good.”

We took possession of two guinea pigs on Saturday afternoon. We are charged with their care and upkeep until July 4th, when Janie’s parents will return from three weeks of vacationing in France and elsewhere. It’s a tough life they have, with the travel and the leisure time and whatnot.
In 2005, we watched their prior guinea pig, Machi, while they sailed around Antarctica for a month. Yes, a very tough life, those two have. For sure. Machi was originally Janie’s guinea pig, whom she entrusted …