February 26, 2026
Someone at a catering company decided that having a fruit salad with whole grapes, to be eaten with a plastic fork, was a good idea.
Have you ever tried it? It reminds me of the scene in “Pretty Woman” where Julia Roberts is trying to eat the snail, and it goes flying off the plate.
To the other diners’ credit, I didn’t see any grapes flying through the air, though. Maybe they’re more adept than I am.
(But actually, I think it would have been funny to see.)
February 26, 2026
An article in yesterday’s paper reminded me about using smart devices to track one’s health.
I’m hoping that at some point, they can be modified (and unhackable) so that hospitals can monitor patients’ vital signs without hooking them up to wires that make it difficult to sleep comfortably, and that won’t have bright monitors or beeping sounds to further disturb patients who really don’t need any more unwanted sensory input.
Since I’m chronically behind on technology advances, maybe that’s already in the works, or they’ve even been developed already.
One can only hope.
February 20, 2026
Kristi Noem, head of the Department of Homeland Security, has apparently been lulled by the complacent reactions to the Trump administration’s most absurd claims and fantasies into thinking that people will buy anything.
She thinks that people will actually believe that she’s buying a luxury jet to help transport deportees out of the country.
Which is more unlikely: That she would approve of anyone being deported being comfortable, or that she would allow people that she clearly despises anywhere near a jet that she would also use?
