Month: January 2011
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Deer Here
Okay, I’m one of those guys who posts photos of wild animals in his yard. So sue me. It’s not every night five deer wander into our Monona neighborhood and hang around for the better part of a half-hour, browsing at the grass poking through the edges of our driveway and what’s left of the… Read.
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A box?
I read a bunch of web comics every morning because that’s about all the mental activity I’m good for at six in the morning, and because I like them. They’re all lined up in the lower right-hand corner under the label “Web Comics” because I need labels at six in the morning, too. When I… Read.
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Boooooard!
Day One of the Rebuild of the New Lost Continent Railway: The benchwork. [I know it looks like a big, empty box with no sides. Play along with me here.] I’ve been pecking away at this a little bit through the week, whenever I could find an hour or two after dinner. The frames at… Read.
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You Never Close Your Eyes
On this morning’s broadcast of Says You, host Richard Sher asked the panel which twentieth-century pop song has been played more than any other on the radio. First guess, “White Christmas,” was not bad, but I think maybe it just seems to get more air play than any other song, especially right around the middle… Read.
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Beer and Cheese
Beer and cheese! They had gallons of the former and tons of the latter at the convention center yesterday afternoon, where I passed the time wandering from booth to booth with My Darling B, or passing most of the time with her, as it turned out. We got separated about midway through the afternoon and… Read.
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Barely here
Well, here we are again so soon. Feels as though it’s been only two or three hours since I sat here banging on the keyboard, and Hey! It has! I have no idea how much sleep I ended up getting last night – judging from the way I feel right now, ten, maybe fifteen minutes… Read.
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Urp
When I slide into a bed heavy with quilts on a cold winter night and curl up for my voyage to the land of nod, the thought that runs through my head should not be: Oh crap, am I going to have a sleepless night? Because when it is, chances are pretty good that it… Read.
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Nom Nom Nom
After thinking it over for a couple years, My Darling B & I finally indulged ourselves and signed up to join in on Restaurant Week, the annual festival of stuffing yourself silly with good food at great restaurants in Mad Town. It started on Monday but our pocketbook couldn’t stand the strain of eating out… Read.
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Unstuck in time
I had one of those weird what-day-is-it moments while we were in the middle of a dance lesson last night. I really, really thought it was Wednesday, somehow, even though we’ve had our lesson on Tuesday night for I don’t know how long. I don’t know when or how I convinced myself that it was… Read.
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