Category: daily drivel
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thaw
It seems my incantation to end winter came two days too early. Yesterday was frigid, temps never getting much above freezing, and the day I commanded winter to cease and desist was almost as bad. This morning, though, brings forty-degree temps and the promise of even warmer weather over the weekend. I might have to… Read.
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toast
I haven’t been warm all day. I’m usually just fine in my button-down Oxford but today it’s failed me. Today I started out just a mark short of warm enough and somehow never managed to put enough coal on the grate to get the boilers up to full steam. Whatever metaphor’s wrong with me today,… Read.
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end time
It’s official: this is the last day of winter. There will be no more winter after today. I won’t permit it. Don’t even ask. We’re done. Ain’t gotta do winter for a while. Finito. Happy days are here again. Warm weather will now prevail. I’m getting a new thermometer and I’m gonna saw off the… Read.
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random
License plate seen on the way to work this morning: NTDEDYT. Enty deed white? Ent duh dye tee? I couldn’t figure it out. Fortunately for me (or, depending on the situation, unfortunately) I tend to think out loud, so My Darling B heard my phonological struggles and lent me a helping hand: “Not dead yet.”… Read.
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mostly
At long last, two days and three nights during which I shall not spend a single minute staring at application forms on a computer screen. I don’t even have to think about it, although I know that I probably will. I am right now, for instance. It’s just one of those things I can’t completely… Read.
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Farty McFartpants
She just called me Farty McFartpants in the most endearing way possible. That’s how you can tell it’s true love. She’s My Darling B and I’m her Farty McFartpants. Read.
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guy night plus one
Time for an early guy night. I am the one who makes dinner this evening, a decision arrived at on the way to the grocery store when My Darling B was having one hell of a time trying to come up with something quick and simple to make. It came to me pretty easily: spaghetti… Read.
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cracked
My heel cracked open today. Happens every so often in the dry air of the winter months, or at least it does now. The ends of my fingers will split now and again if I don’t keep them lotioned, too. Hurts like a mother and takes days to heal. All this by way of taking… Read.
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spit
Maybe you read about it today, maybe you didn’t: Radio astronomers working for the past seven years at the south pole have succeeded for the first time in measuring gravitational waves, or, in other words, science has taken a big step in formulating a unifying theory. How did The New York Times explain it? Why, thusly: If… Read.
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lazy lazy lazy
We ain’t doin’ nothin’ today. All the stuff we had to do, we did yesterday, and then some. I cleaned and dusted all the books in a 6-foot-tall book case. Tell me that isn’t going above and beyond. Go ahead, just try to tell me that, because lah-lah-lah, I can’t hear you! I dusted more… Read.
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