This Is Drivel

Month: October 2015

  • socked in

    Last night I slept with my socks on just to stay warm enough to sleep comfortably, so it’s officially winter, as far as I’m concerned. Either that, or I’m officially an old codger now. Maybe I should get tested. Read.

  • waxy

    In my dream, I could feel the earwax shift in my left ear, and I could tell that it was a lot of wax, because it blocked my ear enough to make the world seem just a bit more quiet. I was talking to someone, so I waited for them to be distracted by something,… Read.

  • ticking away

    I have these memories, dim now, that I once spend days doing whatever I wanted. Sometimes I’d do nothing more with them than lay flat on the bed and think about things for hours and hours. But now … I get up at five o’clock. This is so I can take my shower and shave… Read.

  • gesundheit

    I sneezed this morning and it’s like everything came apart in my head. Slobber, snot, maybe even some brains. I was oozing stuff that I didn’t know I could ooze. Took a little while and several sheets of Kleenex to wipe it all up. I just love it that we can share like this. Thanks. Read.

  • scruffy

    I got my hair cut. It’s not the hair cut I wanted, or even the hair cut I asked for. It’s the hair cut the barber thought I wanted. She saw a graying 55-year-old guy and thought I wanted to look like John Wayne just before cancer made him so haggard-looking that he stopped making… Read.

  • Fertile

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    On a beautiful day like today, nothing makes me quite as happy as realizing, as l stroll through the neighborhood and run out of fingers counting the number of people who are raking leaves, that I am never going to do that. I was going to add, not until they make it illegal, but when… Read.

  • Where are the ghosts?

    Some celebrity told a story on the radio this morning of the time he saw a ghost, a segment they introduced by asking rhetorically, “Are ghosts real? We’ll find out from so-and-so in a minute.” Um? No. We won’t. First of all because he’s an actor, not a spiritualist (DAMMIT, JIM!), but even more obviously… Read.

  • Our First Dinner at Ishnala

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    We had dinner last night at the Ishnala Supper Club near Wisconsin Dells. It’s a bit of a drive, just under an hour, but as things turned out, our visit there was worth every minute on the road. We learned about Ishnala from “Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club,” a documentary we… Read.

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