Miranda Allen

Update: done by 10:45 and $40 less than what they told me!!

It feels like a good time to be vigilant, aware of what's going on, actively looking out for opportunities to extend kindness to people and animals, and searching for reasons to smile. For example: Spring begins one week from today!

Walked up the driveway yesterday evening and I think I picked up a cold. It was sunny, but windy and in the 40s or low 50s

2019: US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by other countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia

Why is this Dunkin' built so nice?

'St. Paddy's Day' is usually preferred over 'St. Patty's Day.'

'Paddy' is the shortened form of the original Irish spelling of 'Patrick,' which is 'Pádraig.'

'Patty' is the shortened form of 'Patricia.'

Anything to save a buck.

Pedro Pascal on why the new Star Wars movie is called THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU

“It was a demand Grogu made and no one could say no. It was the only way to get him to say yes to the movie. He’s like, ‘Listen, let’s be real. The Mandalorian and?”

(Source: empiremagazine)

I'm still wearing a mask in public.

Six years ago, everything shut down, and we were all searching for toilet paper.

It's infuriating how they always insist on treating the middle class differently than the poor. They could unify with universal basic income but no, they have to draw an arbitrary line and say "You get tax cuts to have more cash, and you get welfare full of hoops to jump through like trained seals."

Potoooooooo Potoooooooo or variations of Pot-8-Os was an 18th-century British thoroughbred racehorse who won over 25 races and placed higher than some of the most prominent racehorses of his time. He went on to be an important sire, whose leading runners included Epsom Derby winners Waxy, Champion, and Tyrant.

Potoooooooo was an 18th-century British racehorse whose name was pronounced like “Potatoes” (Pot-eight-Os). [en.wikipedia.org]

Jon has a little tree on his head.

Episode 298: How D.C. Fontana Helped Star Trek Live Long and Prosper — Imaginary Worlds Gene Roddenberry’s name is synonymous with Star Trek, but he relied on a team to bring his vision to life. Most of his writers were men with one exception, the trailblazing Dorothy Fontana. Profession...

In honor of the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek and Women’s History Month, we look at the voyages of D.C. Fontana – the trailblazing screenwriter who helped Star Trek go where television had never gone before.

Michael Guthier aka Spanky G (Bloodhound Gang)

Jack Harlow

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Adam Clayton (U2)

Neil Sedaka

Melvin Taylor

Stuart Sullivan (Engineer: Roky Erickson, Willie Nelson)

Terence Blanchard (Art Blakey)

Bill Curbishley (Manager: The Who, Robert Plant)

Greg Norton (Husker Du)

Donny York (Sha Na Na)

David Draiman (Disturbed)

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In "All Our Yesterdays", on planet Sarpeidon an Atavachron time portal was used to condemn Zarabeth on a one-way trip to the planet's ancient ice age.

Card of the day: ACE OF COINS. Coins represent work, money, home, the physical and the material. It is the suit of both available and potential support, regarding health, wealth, talent and growth.
#TrekSky #TarotSky #StarTrek #Tarot #StarTrekTarot StarTrekTarot.com

#GoldenGirls

A 6.14 inch (156 mm) max distance hailstone weighing 16.25 Oz (461 g) with a circumference of 16 inches (406 mm) found in Kankakee IL.

This is the most psycho of the psycho hail.

I'm so glad they can fix it today. I figured I'd have to bring it back later. This experience has been costly but as the other lady in the waiting room said, "It's still cheaper than buying a car." I should've brought a book to read.

The mechanic said it's a wheel bearing. They said it would be about $700 to fix. I hope that includes the initial diagnostic fee they quoted me. They said they could fix it later today so I guess I'm not going anywhere unless I go on foot. Which I could.

Happy Birthday to:

Otis Hicks aka Lightnin' Slim

Roy Haynes (Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk)

Mike Stoller (Songwriter)

Erma Franklin

Terry Cox (Pentangle)

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell

Lula Grace Johnson aka Jan Howard

Bob Haggert

Ina Ray Hutton

Clara Smith

Sammy Kaye

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I love the suggestion to rip the music from the CD to a USB drive. Many laptops also don't come with CD players.

18% of the Fridays this year have been Friday the 13ths which honestly seems very on brand for 2026

A curved marble ceiling arch at the Cultural Center with mosaic tiles of the Chicago municipal symbol and the names of important writers.

Back home where we belong, looking up in the Cultural Center.

Dude wrote a 173 page footnote on a marginally related topic, prefacing it with “I have omitted much that I would like to have said... [and] I have written much that few will read."

I HAVE FOUND MY PATRON SAINT

In a scene from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Cadet Nog is seen doing some engineering work aboard the Defiant. He is standing at a table holding his hands out in a gesture suggesting he's explaining something. He's facing the eternally clueless Zoot (of the Electric Mayhem) who is just looking back at Nog with a blank, slack-jawed expression. In front of them is a table on which is a PADD and several engineering tools.

Day 143 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot

#FerengiFriday #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9
#TheMuppets #ElectricMayhem

🤣😂🤣😂 So true 👍

Good Friday morning 🌄 ☺️

I've run into some different funny memes, but they're stored in an area of the phone that's hard to get to. So hang with me.

Also getting coffee ☕️ 😴

The last snowman of 2026 is still standing in Framingham.