Month: January 2011
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Way Back
When I got out of the car yesterday morning in front of the office, I was instantly reminded of Berlin: The air was sub-freezing but yet still somehow clammy, a thin fog hung over everything and the sky was sealed up so tightly by a murky overcast that only the dimmest rays of the morning… Read.
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Meaning
Okay, so if you’re one of those people who believes a dream means something, try to noodle this one out: Last night, I dreamed I was making coffee in the toilet bowl. It worked surprisingly well except that when it was ready I flushed it. Muscle memory, I guess. That’s all I remember about it,… Read.
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Train Wreck
WHAT HAVE I DONE? I demolished my model train layout this weekend. The original section still stands, but only because it’s going to take me the better part of a day to disconnect the electrical fixtures and unscrew all the hardware that I’ve attached to it over the years. I’m hoping to begin rebuilding later… Read.
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This Is My Serious Face
Found! The lost passport photos! I was moving some boxes from one corner of the basement to another and ran across a couple small boxes I didn’t recognize. Opening them up to see what the hell was in them I found a treasure trove of trinkets kept as keepsakes from all over the world and… Read.
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How’s That Again?
I’m puzzled by the confusion my dream posts have caused. You really can’t tell the difference between posts in which I am menaced by cotton balls or am being chased by outer-space aliens from the banal squibs describing my everyday life? Are my dreams really so sensibly drab that they appear to be episodes of… Read.
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A Man, A Plan, So Banal – Bananaman!
My goals for today are very modest: First, I want to stay warm. That will require a great deal of remaining indoors, preferably on the couch in the living room, wrapped up in a quilt with a piping hot cuppa close by, because there’s some kind of Arctic air thingy hanging over our heads that’s… Read.
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Are You Following Me?
I grabbed my water bottle from the bottom drawer of my desk where I keep all my snacks stashed and headed for the break room to fill it up. As I turned into the hallway I could see there was a guy standing outside the door of the break room chatting with someone on his… Read.
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Not Giving You Any Shirt!
Space aliens! I was being chased by space aliens all night! And what did they want from me? Did they need me to complete an act of betrayal that would give them the entire world? Did they want to suck my soul out through my eyeballs? Did they want to make me their uranium-mining slave?… Read.
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Happy Monday
When I got to the office yesterday morning I set my bag down next to my desk, as I do every morning, hung up my hat and coat, sat down in my chair and opened the file cabinet drawer where I’ve kept my shoes ever since those first merry flakes of winter cheer forced me… Read.
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Weekend Fun
And so ends a lovely three-day weekend we filled by reading books and watching videos. I’m still working on A Crack In The Edge Of The World, Simon Winchester’s history of the San Francisco earthquake, only he’s so into geology it’s more like a history of the entire planet’s geological past. Seriously, he goes all… Read.
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