Month: December 2010
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New Year’s Eve
Today’s New Year’s Eve so we get the day off because we’re state workers. It’s one of the benefits that are showered on us like confetti at a hero’s ticker-tape parade. I can’t wait to see how that’s going to change. Watch this space. But for now, we’re enjoying the day off: Sleeping in a… Read.
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Colonel Roosevelt
I finished Colonel Roosevelt two and a half weeks after I started, partly because it’s five hundred seventy pages of solidly-written biography, and party because I put it on pause to read three other books. It’s not that the subject was uninteresting (perish the thought!) or the writing was poor (never!), it was me. I… Read.
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Griftopia
I started Griftopia on Saturday and finished it on Sunday, one book in one weekend. It was that much fun to read. It was also infuriating, but that’s what it was supposed to be, so good on Matt Taibbi. Griftopia is a collection of articles Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone magazine about our current economic… Read.
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Beddy-bye
I had almost as much trouble getting into bed last night as I usually do getting into the center seat of a commercial airliner. My Darling B turned in early because she’d been sick for the past few days and has been doing her darndest to get as much sleep as she can. She stayed… Read.
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Tap dance
I was trying to get our flat-screen TV to work without the remote, but it had no visible means of control that I could tell, but that couldn’t be. Why would they even make a TV that didn’t have some way to at least turn it on without a remote? So I looked all over… Read.
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Jonzin
Yesterday morning I wanted a Pop Tart so bad! I’d been banging away at a pile of paperwork all morning and when my ten o’clock break finally rolled around it was all I could do to beat back the urge (or the desire) to give in and go plug the snack machine for a packet… Read.
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Touchdown
Sean called us as soon as he landed in Denver last night to let us know his trip went without a hitch and he was all right. What a good boy. I know B likes to get the all-clear from him whenever he flies home, same as she likes to use her laptop to check… Read.
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Colossus
Dammit dammit dammit! I promised myself I wasn’t going to check out a book from the library yesterday. I’m only a hundred fifty pages from the end of the Roosevelt biography, I can’t start another book now. When My Darling B asked me to drop her off so she could pick up her hold requests,… Read.
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To Grandmother’s House We Go
We all piled into the car yesterday morning and headed north to the ancestral manse of O to visit my Mom, far away in the snow-covered lands of Waupaca County. Until today’s visit, Mom hadn’t seen the Seanster in over a year, I think, probably not since the summer before last when he came to… Read.
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Coffee Coffee Coffee
In last night’s dream I was somehow involved in shooting a scene from a movie. I don’t remember much of that, just the coffee. After the scene was shot we all lined up at a roach coach to get some coffee and baked goods. John Cleese in full-on Basil Fawlty mode was serving brownies at… Read.
This Is Drivel 