Month: October 2011
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occupied
I went to visit Caboose Hobbies this afternoon while My Darling B joined The Seansterator in the Occupy Denver march through the downtown area. We split up for two reasons: One of us should have remained “on the outside” in the event, however unlikely, that it would become necessary to post bail and arrange for… Read.
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wakey
Woke up at three thirty this morning. My alarm clock is set for five. When I wake up that close to the time when my alarm clock is going to start bleeping anyway, I just lay in bed and wait to see what happens. I waited for an hour before I gave up. Sort of… Read.
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locked
The cats may have locked me out of my laptop. When I came home this afternoon It was sitting on the sideboard by the front window with the top up. The monitor was dark and wouldn’t come back on so I had to force it to shut down. Then, after I booted it up again,… Read.
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repeat
When I asked my Dad, “How much longer until we get there?” he would answer, “How Long is a Chinaman’s name?” As a joke, it was only middling funny. I didn’t get it the first time he used it. He kept using it anyway, and it became one of those jokes that’s funny just because… Read.
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nosh
The Madison Food and Wine Show was a tad disappointing this year. There didn’t seem to be as much food to sample, and neither My Darling B nor I thought that any of the wines we tasted were especially remarkable. There was lots of cheese kibbled and set out to try – this is Wisconsin,… Read.
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ink
I’m a huge geek for space flight. I’m not sure why it’s called “manned” when there are women doing it now, and I’m as puzzled about calling it “flight” when it can and often is done without wings, but even so, I geek out in a major way whenever I run across a book or… Read.
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savage
No, seriously, the most awful movie I have ever seen in my life, whatever it was, has now been bumped by “The Savage Innocents,” starring Anthony Quinn. This was supposedly the movie that inspired Bob Dylan to write the song “Quinn the Eskimo.” It inspired me to walk out of the movie after just twenty… Read.
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beer
Edwin Layton was a Japanese linguist and cryptanalyst in the Navy during World War Two. As you might imagine, he has a few interesting stories to tell, and lucky for you and me he wrote them down in a book titled, “And I was there,” which I’m reading right now. Favorite story I read today:… Read.
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photograph
I had a song stuck in my head all day long and for once it didn’t make me want to chew my own leg off to escape it. The song was “Photograph” by Def Lepard, and not the whole song, just the chorus. It kept playing over and over. I couldn’t stop it. But at… Read.
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slippers
And, just like that, we went from barefoot weather to slippers-wearing weather. I can go barefoot in my house about half the year, and in the summer I actively search out cool floors where my feet will bring relief to the rest of my broiling body, but the other half of the year I have… Read.
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