Month: December 2011
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bon voyage
Sean is on a plane and, even as I type these words, on his way back to Denver, where he’ll arrive just in time to take part in a “Kung Fu New Year.” I don’t know what that is, but I have a very good idea that some alcohol and dancing will be involved. Also… Read.
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leg-up
My Darling B woke up at about three o’clock this morning with a leg cramp that just wouldn’t quit, not even when she got out of bed and tried to walk it off. I almost got a sympathetic cramp just listening to her go “Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” as she hopped helplessly around the room. It… Read.
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stars
Oh I have just passed a most happy hour watching Brian Cox explain how atoms work. No, really. You may think you don’t have an hour to watch a video about a subject that you think you’ve never been interested in about knowledge you think you’ll never use, but just give him at least ten… Read.
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swallow
I had a little trouble sleeping when, around three o’clock this morning, various thumps and bumps around the house woke me up and I couldn’t find my way back to The Land of Nod. It happens. I thought briefly about retreating to my basement lair to search the interwebs for some noteworthy drivel to read,… Read.
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case
Spent the morning moving some file cabinets out of the corner of the basement where we store all that stuff that “we might need later” and moved them to the extra space left next to my desk, now that it’s about three feet shorter. I move them all by myself, even though each of them… Read.
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gesundheit
Did you watch The Taking of Pelham One Two Three yet? The Walter Matthau version, not that other piece of crap. The whole thing is on YouTube, though probably not for long, so you should watch it RIGHT NOW! The first time I saw it was back in about 1970 on a nine-inch black-and-white television… Read.
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split
Ouch. I have so many cuts on my fingers from working in the basement yesterday, and I use the work “working” in the sense of doing something I like to do, not in the sense of laboring all day for The Man. Fun Stuff. I finished building my desk yesterday (see yesterday’s megaparagraph) which, because… Read.
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shellac
I finally finished the desk that I started building months ago. It’s just a two by four foot piece of three-quarters inch plywood on a set of legs, but I wanted it to look nice so I sanded it on top and brushed a couple layers of shellac over it. I’ve never used shellac before… Read.
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stamp
Right in the middle of the movie The Adjustment Bureau when the men in the sinister gray hats lost control of Matt Damon, they called in “The Hammer” to fix things. If you were a movie director and you had to cast a guy who would look menacing just by walking into the scene, who… Read.
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adjustment
Here’s what I got out of The Adjustment Bureau, one of Matt Damon’s latest flicks. I know it came out last summer but I mostly see films after they’re released to DVD and I can rent them from a local store. After the last local video store is killed off by Netflix and Amazon direct… Read.
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