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OH MY GOD!    We have no supplies for school, the list is printed    but I have to go    Later and pick up the physical for preschool    and Chicken Jane quit    God takethed away our nanny, but left me the      list, chores, and laundry.

I. The Autosomal-Dominant Chef's Guide To The Recession Pantry    Lately we here at Casa del Doolittle are flat broke doing that eco-friendly, sensible thing where you "eat your pantry" before shopping again.  The severity of the current cashflow issue hallmark Doolittle trait of refusing to admit

   I mentioned how this "silence" on Doolittle has been more like an ear-splitting cacaphony, complete with castrati sopranos and alley cats fornicating along, and last night while "discussing" all and sundry with The Patriarch where it came down to "I'm not listening to you lalalalala" with fingers

My last two Windows Mobile phones have both had GPS, so I’ve played with code to get my location from the GPS a few times. These have generally been quick hacked-together bits and pieces. In all of them, I wrote my own GPS code. I knew that the GPS device would be accessible through a serial port, so I just connected to the relevant COM port and started reading.

... and the stock answer is 'Well, you can always appeal.'Crashed car gets £50 parking ticketMetroAugust 14, 2008A stunned motorist was dealt a double blow when she found her parked car had been shunted into a tree – then given a £50 parking ticket.Joanne Billington's Ford Ka was hit by another

The penny is starting to drop ... everyone connected with the 'parking industry' is financially dependent on the number of tickets issued.Mike Waters writes below ...AS if traffic wardens didn’t already have a bad enough reputation, you may have heard that the Department for Transport admitted that

   The Patriarch and I had a talk last night about The Very Small Animal's upcoming appointment.  Sort of.  It kind of went in fits and starts with my trying to tell him what I was thinking, then having to go "STOP YELLING I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH YOU BUT NOT IF YOU YELL," and then trying to tell

   I am sinking into fullblown disassociative crisis-mode over here.  The EMDR Fairy pointed out that that CAN be a very effective defense mechanism.  I agree, but it's not very flattering and keeps me from being all that I could be if not for walls closing in on me.  I still haven't even discussed

   My chickens, I have been neglecting you, and I'm sorry.  Truly I am.  I know that I have spoiled you by posting at least once a day for ages, but recently this blog has been strangely silent.  The sound of that silence inside my head though is more of a roar.  I talked to The EMDR Fairy about it

The Patriarch:  I know what's wrong with your neck! Eliza:  Oh gawd. The Patriarch:  I heard about this thing on the radio, where drunks sleep like retards!* Eliza:  Excuse me? The Patriarch:  Yeah, hangover palsy or something.  You sleep like a drunk, dead to the world, and then you wake up and (makes claw-like gesture) you're all palsied up like a retard.