Posted by honey & quinine
For the benefit of readers who have not lived from late March to mid-November without a shower, a description of what I learned this year . . .
My re-immersion into the 21st century began with the return of two stainless steel mixing bowls from the bathro...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 days 3 minutes ago.
My phone request to Ameren made Monday at 1:30 connected. I was told a service person would visit me today and would try to make it before lunch as I requested.
I’ve been working as much as mon boss would allow me, but there was no hesitation in ann...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 days 16 hours ago.
Until today, my dad’s earnest efforts to convince me to wear hats “fed om dep ees” as Buckwheat might have said. For the first time in my life today and about 14 years too late to thank him for his wisdom and persistence, I decided to pa...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 days 22 hours ago.
And then there was one. Doonesbury.
With Opus gone from the Sunday funnies, I need more than one comic strip and “the Sunday funnies” closing segment of late-nite comedy replays on This Week With George Stephanopoulos to get my head straight f...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 days 23 hours ago.
I heard on NPR this morning that Barack was thanking Illinois voters via selected newspapers, for our support and got the (wrong) impression those thanks would be a full-page advert. Instead, it was an editorial page “affectionate letter of thanks&#...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 days 13 hours ago.
Kudos to the Illinois State Museum who hosted its annual Collectors’ Day Saturday, November 15 on a cold, windy overcast day in which fully 95% of the local populace could have cancelled plans for an afternoon hike through Lincoln Memorial Gardens a...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 days 18 hours ago.
A funny thing happened on the way to getting my Ameren gassssssssssssssssss reconnected. When I heard the forecast for this weekend (lows in the low 30s and snow) I decided it was time to reconnect.
A call to Ameren brought the happy news that my MONEY O...
Posted by honey & quinine 6 days 17 hours ago.
I don’t even have a tin cup. I never played guitar on a street corner with an open guitar case for tips, though some respected minds have suggested I could make decent money if I did. Honey & Quinine (Cry, mine if you prefer) is not “an op...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 2 days ago.
A few weeks ago I gave a Midwest Family Radio Group advertising representative (who was/is courteous, friendly and competent) a copy of my book Springfield Aviation when she promised to deliver to WMAY program director Jim Leach. She returned a few days l...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 3 days ago.
My weekend with internationally famous Sprinfield, Illinois poet Vachel (rhymes with Rachel) involved two visits to the Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site on Saturday, and a visit to the Illini Country Club Sunday afternoon.
I began preparing for Sat...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
I had not heard of Valerie Mitchell until she appeared as the first guest on Meet the Press this morning. She hired Michelle when she was engaged to Barack, became a close advisor and friend to both, and on MTP, was as sharp and loyal an intellect as any ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
I had not heard of Valerie Garret until she appeared as the first guest on Meet the Press this morning. She hired Michelle when she was engaged to Barack, became a close advisor and friend to both, and on MTP, was as sharp and loyal an intellect as any wh...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 5 days ago.
It’s been a busy week at “Rock City,” as I’ve focused on tasks made more urgent by my absence on election day: easy work and a lot of it. The business launched an advertising campaign on local radio, and I’ve been delighted b...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 17 hours ago.
I was privileged to serve as one of five election judges assigned to Capital Township (Springfield, Illinois) Precinct 50 on November 4. Most H&Q visitors know election judges by their brief encounters with them every two years where they go to vote. ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 3 days ago.
Not yet confirmed, and maybe just a rumor, President #43, backed up by boy toy Pepe Lebbamain ordered a pre-emptive strike againd the Democratic National Committee early Monday with the goal of freeing millions “sufferin’ frem cocka-maymee soc...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 3 days ago.
I didn’t even know its first name until weeks after it died. When I shared the news with the original owner and my friend Dave, that the Kelvinator he and his wife Jeanette Tabb had given me had been trucked away to “refrigerator heaven,”...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 3 days ago.
Because I can’t wag my tail.
For a full hour after a dreary Meet the Press interview with Basset-Faced Fred Thompson (not that there’s anything wrong with Bassets) and a superb-from minute-one This Week with George Stephanopoulus, I cleared br...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 5 days ago.
I did something this morning I have not done since 2006: I paid my Ameren/CILCO gas bill. In Illinois, your gas cannot be turned off until April, regardless of whether you make partial payments or no payments at all. It is a humane thing to do. But it mak...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 6 days ago.
I’ve played a betting game with office temperatures. I was so comfortable in the sweater I brought Tuesday, I bet with the warmer temps predicted for Wednesday I wouldn’t need it.
WRONG. I left the showroom yesterday slightly bent forward from...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 1 day ago.
Over the years, we’ve all heard folks fed up with the way politicians dug into the granite edifices of DC SHOUT as though a chorus that they should be removed with our votes and replaced. “THROW THE BUMS OUT” is their mantra. Given the ...
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