Month: May 2011
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off
It was really pleasant waking up this morning, knowing that I didn’t have to get out of bed right away to jump in the shower and start getting ready for work, then getting out of bed anyway and doing whatever the hell I wanted. I made this ordinary weekend into a hyperextended super-weekend by taking… Read.
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legwork
No trouble at all getting to sleep last night. Matter of fact, when my alarm clock started bleeping this morning, I felt as though I could’ve used a couple more hours of it. My Darling B and I were waltzing like a couple of overcaffeinated Viennese dance monkeys. No, I don’t know what those are.… Read.
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magic
I had an urgent need to talk to a supervisor this morning, and because my supervisor wasn’t in the office I went to see Kris, the next supervisor I knew. Just as I stepped up to her open door to knock I stopped dead in my tracks. Kris was seated at her desk with a… Read.
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alligator lizards
Your mondegreen for today was going to be the last line of the chorus to “Ventura Highway” by America: Cause the free wind is blowin’ through your hair And the day surrounds your daylight there Seasons cryin’ no despair Alligator lizards in the air For years I’ve thought either I had to be hearing that… Read.
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baby!
Jumping on the internet bandwagon, here are the few thoughts that buzzed through my brain cell at the sight of TSA goons frisking an eight-month-old baby: Ah. Well. They’re doing that to be fair. Yeah! That’s the ticket! They grope everybody else, so it’s only fair that they give the baby a patdown, too. Babies… Read.
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salad
Last night was guy night so I should have been making dinner, but I got out of it by agreeing to mow the lawn instead. And if that sounds like a good deal to you, you’re probably a guy. It really, really needed mowing. Actually, it needed mowing already on Tuesday but My Darling B… Read.
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prize
Here’s what I love about buying the vast majority of the used books I’ve collected over the years from the shelves of the local thift store, Saint Vincent de Paul’s. Each and every day that the weather allows it, I take a walk from the office on East Washington Ave down the Yahara river foot… Read.
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phone fixer
It stands to reason that the person who answers the phone at a retail outlet or public service office has enormous influence over how the phone system is set up. After all, he’s the poor schlub who has to use it all day, right? It only makes sense that management would bend over backwards to… Read.
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Truck
A typical truck driver taking a corner, like the one we saw turning on to First Street from Atwood Avenue, both two-lane city roads. The inside wheels of the tractor truck climbed the curb because he cut the turn way too close, not that he was aware of that; a quick flash of the brake… Read.
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