tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:07:18 +0000wordsmithsThingscat poopgeekeryFloodHomeaccentsaccidentsanthraxanthropomorphismanxiety avertedblatherskateboobsbus shrapnelclostridiumcomfortcookiescountry fairsdelusional hallucinationsdesecrationdynguseasterfahk itfancy wordsfarty mcfartersonfestering boilsfloating headsformatting woesfrankensteinfrenulumgeneral weepinessgood legsgrampa chairhatehigh schoolhouse paintinfundibuluminsane ramblinglava lampslinguinimercaptoethanolmusingsnihilismnose gristnougatonychomycosisparasitic twinpaso doublepatron saints of irelandpestilencepipluppoliticspollackprurituspuppypuritansraging yellow zonkersrecipessanderssea creaturessenselesssingingsmaugspectral phnomenaspiffysportsswimmingterroriststhe f bombthunderstormtriumphvocabularyweeble bottomswhippingwinterhttp://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (tiff)Blogger1627125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4726286513886587701Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:17:00 +00002025-11-24T09:25:27.791-05:00Emmy woke up on a fine Fall morning, looked out the front porch door at the mountains rolling away at her feet and thought 'a person could get real lost out there if they wanted to.'Her Daddy's done it, so she knew it was true.Just a few steps into the forest, up a hill, follow an old indian path to a flat spot where they used to camp before they got run out, and never light a fire in the daytimehttp://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2025/11/written-in-hurry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4567859230133153481Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:37:00 +00002025-09-01T12:50:52.123-04:00 This time, on The Misadventures of Tiff and Biff: We are just back from a short weekend trip to see grandchild #3, a darling wee 1-week-old baby girl who is very very good at snoozing (during the daytime anyhow). She lives with her parents who live about 4 hours away, so naturally Biff and I drive to see them, because she cannot drive yet and it's a long walk to our house but she http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2025/09/took-one-way-train-wrong-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-7694405859590298951Wed, 31 May 2023 16:57:00 +00002023-05-31T12:57:18.958-04:00 Well, it's baseball, and it's now my age, so...it works? (I have never heard of this movie, it must be noted) Y'all.  I will commence my 62nd year of age at approximately 2:20 this afternoon.My Mom reminds me every year of my birth time, and sometimes the methodology of my arrival into the world of air and breathing.  Look up 'frank breech,' or as the nice Irish obstetrician http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/05/birthday-times-again-61.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-6865285751523723853Mon, 29 May 2023 17:30:00 +00002023-05-29T13:34:56.997-04:00 Today is a day of reflection and remembrance of those who died while serving in the U.S. military, according to the Congressional Research Service. The holiday is observed in part by the National Moment of Remembrance, which encourages all Americans to pause at 3 p.m. for a moment of silence. A couple of things that might make it to that 3 p.m. moment of silence and reflection: &http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/05/memorial-day-sits-heavy-and-it-should.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-7830458290482163035Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:49:00 +00002023-04-26T14:49:29.671-04:00 I have reached an age that isn't quite retirement (dang it) but definitely qualifies for a smattering of 'senior citizen' discounts.While I have yet to take advantage of any of those discounts, because I don't go to the stores that offer them for someone my age I guess, I COULD save money on a cup of coffee at McDonald's if I wanted to.Among the things that accompany the onset of aging is http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/04/how-to-fit-into-shoes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-2741218080637363220Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:49:00 +00002023-04-14T09:49:09.635-04:00 Like this, only in red. The venue was huge, Vegas huge.  There were giant fountains in lobbies, lush fake greenery around wagon-wheel light fixtures 10 feet wide, literal WALLS of color-shifting light that throbbed with whatever beat was bluetoothed to it, cavernous reception rooms, labyrinths of hallways, cacophonies of catering carts being pushed too fast by handsome young http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/04/is-it-really-about-meeting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-3045436597282738832Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:49:00 +00002023-01-31T15:49:51.994-05:00 Can recommend.Last Thursday was a doozie, my friends.  I wound up in the ER due to intractable nausea and vomiting due to my yet-undiagnosed 'condition.'  Got myself in a bit of a pickle with dehydration, so got 500 mL of saline pumped through an IV (hopy crap it hurt getting that thing put in...twice), some Zofran to boot, while the docs analyzed the blood work, had me undergo a http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/01/that-one-time-in-er.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-6427966005681703388Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:54:00 +00002023-01-22T13:54:35.767-05:00 They're what dogs crave!To get y'all caught up on the weather around here; it was cold, then balmy, then WARM, the cool, and now it's cold and rainy.I figured you'd want to know.  It's still nothing like winter, and the daffodils continue to push upward and develop bloomy buddies.  We'll see how they do.  They keep coming back, and have done for many years (they were here http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/01/waffle-housing-and-spoiling-dog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4274965365505930716Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:20:00 +00002023-01-15T07:20:03.998-05:00 Not ours, but the general ideaRight now it is 27 degrees F outside, which is less than zero in C, and that's COLD, folks.The fountain in the front garden has been turned off and emptied.  I know not from whence the birds now drink.The cars will be wet with melted frost in an hour, after the sun gets to 'em (it's not even arisen yet, such its antipathy toward early Sunday mornings).It http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-heat-is-on-and-on-and-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-7548287163483996682Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:50:00 +00002022-12-01T19:50:19.462-05:00 Before the...'thing' happened Recently, I underwent a procedure familiar to all breast cancer survivors, The Yearly Mammogram.But not just ANY mammogram, oh no.  The 'screening' ones most women only ever have are simple affairs by comparison, with only a couple of shots ('vertical' and 'horizontal,' if you will) to check for any suspicious entities.  The ones we lucky http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-one-that-wasnt-and-we-are-glad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-8730467156525068575Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:03:00 +00002022-11-23T18:03:38.270-05:00 Our guide and hero A couple of months ago my Mom and I were having our regular Monday night chat on the phone and she said that she was going to learn Spanish this year using Duolingo.Y'all, my Mom is in her upper '80s and is sharper than me, so I figured I needed to do that too.We were chatting about how 4 p.m. is just a weird time of day - too soon really to start dinner prep at our http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/11/duolingo-gets-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-339459172460666876Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:48:00 +00002022-11-11T17:48:27.953-05:00 Me, just now.  I grew a beard for warmth.  Should I keep it? Ever since I was, ever, I do attract viruses.All KINDS of them!  When I was in high school I had a cold and the flu at the same time (and my period too), for example, and laid on the big brown couch in the family room, half sensate, watching game shows and napping through the soaps.  And not eating, like http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-sure-fire-diet-plan-not-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-3704030983325458629Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:55:00 +00002022-11-03T17:55:02.548-04:00 At this time of year, the sun sets through the leaves and branches of a giant oak tree that lives on the lot south/west of us.  This just happens to be the view out the kitchen window that we get of that phenomenon in the autumn times, and can be quite a spectacle.  Just mind the gap(s), because that sun will smite your eyeballs if it's not peeking picturesquely though the http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/11/out-kitchen-window.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-582376415945106822Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:42:00 +00002022-10-22T12:42:56.263-04:00 Charlette and Jacob were having a second date at the second-fanciest coffee house in the town a middle distance for both of them to travel, that's how well the first date had gone.Charlette comes from a medical background, Jacob is from Scotland.  Their conversations have been interesting as a result, both from an accent and topic perspective.For this date, they've agreed to come up http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/10/hot-second-date-insulting-version.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-8593261154977554225Sat, 08 Oct 2022 22:13:00 +00002022-10-08T18:13:03.182-04:00 This one's got some mood lighting - a nice touch.Intro:  Lately I've been on a hunt for answers to 'why do I get sudden attacks of vertigo with no discernible cause, which then usually make me barf?'A question for the ages, for sure.One step is to, once at least 2 experts are consulted, get an MRI of the skull to 1) ascertain just HOW thick it is, and 2) what might be going wrong http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/10/bang-bang-whirrrr-clunk-storytime.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-3820136838093431515Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:23:00 +00002022-09-24T15:23:56.750-04:00 I can do that, thanks.For too many years now, I've been trying to tough out anxiety.  Mind over...mind, I guess?  When you KNOW something's 'all in your head,' it gets tough to pit the brain against itself, because the brain will always win, which isn't fair or nice to the losing side.Things that make me anxious are:sudden loud noisesconstant excessive noisedecision making ('wherehttp://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/09/smells-like-ashwagandha-up-in-here-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-9153049228659366583Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:27:00 +00002022-09-15T05:27:40.278-04:00A picturesque sluice for your viewing pleasure. It is now nearly 5 a.m.  I have been awake since 4.  This is the new me, I suppose, awake in the middle of the night, trying to get sleepy enough to go back to bed to catch a few winks before having to be awake to monitor the progress of another day.Thank the good Lord above for being able to work from home.  I'd be a wreck if I http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/09/motn-awakenings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-5362172384388330363Fri, 09 Sep 2022 23:39:00 +00002022-09-09T19:50:50.646-04:00 Recently, through a tons of hard work and want-to, the LOML became A Person of Worth at a place that is paying him money to be smart, well-spoken, managerial, and competent.It's not what he's worth, to be sure, but it's enough to keep the lights on.Which is good, because he works a lot and I'm turning on lights well before he gets home most nights, even though it's only not even http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2022/09/i-need-hobby-i-think-tales-of-lonely.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-8984207528328238895Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:02:00 +00002021-03-24T17:02:41.182-04:00Silent but deadlyIt is once again that time of year during which my neighborhood stinks.Like, really stinks.It's the Bradford pear trees; they are the actual REASON it stinks.  Like a zombie's armpit, or so I've heard it called.  It's bad, and there's nothing to do but live through it or don't go outside.  CERTAINLY don't fling the windows open even if it is a glorious Spring day http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/03/what-stinker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-2882061822189725511Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:46:00 +00002021-03-13T16:47:34.856-05:00 Yesterday and the day before it was in the 70s around here.  Windows were opened, rooms aired out, shorts were worn.  It's been an amazing time.And I've spent most of it indoors, reasons being work.  But hey, I get to look out a window while I'm being the 'busy pharmaceutical professional' that I am (that title was bestowed on me many years ago when I received a piece of mailhttp://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/03/daffy-liciousness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4246631642540921101Sun, 07 Mar 2021 19:36:00 +00002021-03-07T14:36:28.548-05:00 Becomes relevant, I promise.It occurred to me a few days ago that I have been showering regularly as of late.  Like EVERY DAY type of regularly.'And, so what?' you might ask.  I do not blame you for wondering, frankly..Well, this time last year I wasn't.This time last year I was 5 infusions into 6 rounds of chemotherapy, and just about every ounce of strength I had was plowed intohttp://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/03/i-saved-lot-on-soap-last-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4272116544930883715Sat, 20 Feb 2021 22:23:00 +00002021-02-20T17:28:09.807-05:00 We decided, it seems, that 2021 is the year we Do All The Big Things, such asTear out every tree in the backyard to prepare forThe garage we are planning to build while alsoRenovating and then putting an addition on the back/'master' bedroom for an expanded closet and second bathroom, which meant thatWe had to move out of our bedroom and into the front bedroom (which had been renovated a http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/02/moving-to-another-room-and-how-its-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-6763667795642901350Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:23:00 +00002021-01-26T14:24:01.147-05:00Gross.Sometimes, I get to feeling way too chipper about life and stuff, so have to bring myself back down to reality by dwelling on stuff that I simply don't care for.  Not that I HATE these things, for hate is too strong a word (and, frankly, is one of those things I don't care for), these are just some things that if I never had to deal with them again it'd be fine by me.- Mis-use of 'lesshttp://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/01/things-that-i-do-not-are-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4098322065461149930Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:04:00 +00002021-01-17T14:04:49.637-05:00So, this one's mostly more hair and nails.  You excited?  You ready?  Then let's dive in, but not too steeply, because this is kind of a shallow pool of topic and you don't want to mash your noggin on the bottom.--- I put this photo on FB recently, with the statement that this is what my hair looks like right now, which is about 7.5 months after it started growing back:No word of&http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-copy-one-of-greats-if-pompadours-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18280368.post-4097474607291712793Tue, 05 Jan 2021 04:53:00 +00002021-01-05T14:43:07.464-05:00 I'm still here.  Still a work-at-home corporate denizen pounding the keyboard for a day's pay.  WITH NO COMPLAINTS.  After the absolute shitshow that was 2020 for a lot of people, I really need to keep my mouth shut about getting to work at home full time and the bennies that come with company employment.Like, healthcare, which meant that in 2020, through all the excitement http://noaccentyet.blogspot.com/2021/01/happy-2021-yall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (tiff)0