This Is Drivel

Category: daily drivel

  • snorfeling

    I took the day off from work to do some snorfeling. Snorfeling is what you do when there’s enough mucus in your head to clog all the sinuses in Dane County. I did it pretty much all day in the living room recliner with a cat curled up in my lap. The cat’s not necessary… Read.

  • despair

    First day of March, which I like to think of as the first day of not-February, and it snowed like a great big FU to everyone who was celebrating getting through the worst months of winter, the light at the end of the tunnel, the hope that one day, maybe not soon, but maybe so,… Read.

  • mouse

    I’m not going to make a great big thing about this, but the temperature got up to twenty-four degrees today. We’re having a heat wave! A tropical heat wave! If it doesn’t seem like that to you, consider that the temp was zero as we drove in to work this morning. It’s been so cold… Read.

  • polish sausage

    The jar of frozen chili I grabbed from the freezer for lunch turned out to be pretty hinky-looking, like it had been in there way too long, so I tossed it and got myself a polish sausage from the cafeteria. An hour later I was making a dash for the men’s room. Irony. It’s a… Read.

  • godzilla bless autofill

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    The Seanster and I were exchanging giddy text messages about the latest movie teaser for the upcoming Godzilla movie. Turns out my phone not only knows how to spell “Godzilla” already, it autofills “Godzilla” after I type the first three letters, because obviously who would ever stop after typing just “God?” Read.

  • potted

    I’m going to bed. Here’s a potted plant for you. Read.

  • frozen

    For weeks and weeks the temperature outside has been sub-freezing, often falling below zero. It’s been so cold for so long that the city has warned us to keep a faucet running because the frost line is down as far as five feet in some places, freezing water lines. Then it rained all day yesterday.… Read.

  • what the hell i don’t even geeze

    It was pouring rain while we were driving home from work this evening. Pouring. In February. One week ago it was so cold that if you slipped and fell, you stuck to the ground. Today it was pouring rain. And by this weekend I’m pretty sure we’ll be up to our hips in snow again… Read.

  • candy

    Cleanup night! While My Darling B chopped up vegetables, getting them ready to dump into a wok for a tasty dinner of stir-fry, I changed into rags, dragged a bucket of cleansers and solvents from the hall closet and scrubbed the shit out of the bathroom. Literally, I guess. Every time I do that, I’m… Read.

  • the man

    I bought gadgets from a number of vendors at a toy train show last weekend. The first vendor itemized my purchases on a preprinted receipt, figuring out the sales tax before totalling the tab. Then I bought a twenty-dollar item from another vendor and all he asked for was twenty dollars. “No sales tax?” I… Read.

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