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When Good Technology Happens to Inept People
September 2, 2010
LBL’s Now Husband is in Greece and Turkey for a month. Family in Turkey, good friends on Rhodes in Greece. Since NH is, among other things, LBL’s Go To Guy for technology, LBL was a bit apprehensive at the thought of his being gone for so long. LBL knows her track record, and it isn’t pretty. LBL fully prepared […]
The Meaning of Brass Balls
August 30, 2010
On Saturday, I drove from Virginia to Oxford, MD to attend an annual gathering of a group of journalists who used to work at the Easton Star Democrat. That’s where Bill Handleman worked many years ago, and, because Bill died this year, the gathering was going to include a few toasts to Bill, as well […]
The Best Country in the World is…
August 25, 2010
Those were the words on the cover of this week’s Newsweek. The actual article was titled “The Best Countries in the World.” Newsweek rated the countries that, if you were born today, would provide you with “the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life.” This was followed by […]
Easy Rules for Baking Success
August 6, 2010
LBL loves to bake. Pies. Cakes. Cookies. Clay pots. You name it, she will bake it. Along the way, she has noted several rules that are really important for a successful result: 1. Read a recipe first and see what ingredients you still need before starting to bake. This will avoid the following when you are […]
CSI: Arlington, VA
August 5, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane sometimes wonders what Miracle the Cat does at night. LBL knows that she patrols the property and that she (LBL) will very, very occasionally be greeted in the morning by a dead baby mouse on her welcome mat (Now Husband husband shrieks each time that they must immediately get rid […]
The Girl Who Strayed With Buyers
August 2, 2010
If you’ve been in the real estate business as long as I have, you’ve probably accumulated a lot of fun experiences that, in retrospect, could have been used successfully in POW camps. I’ve locked myself out of houses, and once, another agent and I had to climb in through a high window to get in. […]
No returns. No exchanges. No dressing rooms.
July 27, 2010
Life in the Boomer Lane and her friend Susan, in a never-ending quest for adventure totally beneath the maturity level that they should aspire to, found a new, humongous “store” to go to in the DC area. This store is called “Unique,” and they name is apt. The store is housed in the airplane-hanger-like space […]
Goodnight Sweetheart, Whoever You Are
July 19, 2010
Now Husband had a high school reunion yesterday. He is always having high school reunions, because he went to four high schools. Three were in Europe. One was in Morocco. So, in addition to the four reunions in the actual locations of the schools, there are four US-based reunions each year. This provides him with […]
Funny, you don’t look Haplogroup H
June 3, 2010
For those of you with an understanding of science that can fit into a pine nut shell, you are like Life n the Boomer Lane. But, thanks to people who possess brain cells that LBL can only dream of, we now know that all modern humans started in the same exact spot in Africa. Approximately 50,000-60,000 […]
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Life in the Boomer Lane 
It's a small world after all. But not small enough.
September 8, 2010
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Overheard en route from Denver to DC: He: a 22 year old Jamaican She: a 28 year old native of Washington State She: Where are you from? He: Jamaica. She: Oh my god, Jamaica! That’s fabulous! I love that! So, uh, what do you speak there? He: It’s called Creole. But we speak English. She: So, […]