Category: daily drivel
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garaged
I dreamed we were living in the garage of our house, for reasons that never became clear. It was a huge garage, big enough to park a couple of fire trucks in and have room left over for us to mill around. There weren’t any fire trucks in it, though, just shelves all around the… Read.
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hoofing it
The thermometer said it was twenty degrees outside but it was such a bright and sunny morning that I wrapped up in several layers and went for a walk anyway. There haven’t been a lot of opportunities in the past few weeks to take a leisurely walk, not without being forced to take into consideration… Read.
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going for a ride
Walked over to Fraboni’s to pick up a sandwich for lunch. Took the short cut through the retirement community apartments. Just as I turned in to the parking lot from the road I saw a car parked beside the main entrance. A young woman was standing at the open passenger door. A dog was running… Read.
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long night
Frustrated by an hour-long attempt to fall asleep, I finally gave up and rolled out of bed, shrugged into a sweatshirt and shuffled out to the living room to settle into the recliner and read for a while, then watch old television shows on Netflix. Didn’t go back to bed until two o’clock, and didn’t… Read.
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b52
When I was about seven or eight years old, my dad took me to the open house at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in upper Michigan. It’s closed now, but back then the place was buzzing with B-52s, and Dad thought a visit would be pretty cool. It was. I even got to sit in… Read.
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cold colder coldest
“In Madison this morning the temperature is seven below, but with the wind chill it feels like twenty below!” “Yeah, but if you’re standing at a bus stop for more than ten minutes, it feels like thirty below!” “And if your hair’s still wet after your shower and you’re not wearing a hat, it feels… Read.
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Inner Me
I’m still feeling full after eating out every night but one last week and then getting a belly full of beer at the anniversary party they threw at Central Waters Brewing on Saturday, so I wasn’t going to eat breakfast. Then I thought, You know, if you don’t eat breakfast, you’ll make it to about… Read.
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say cheese!
Remember photo booths? For a buck and a half’s worth of quarters, you could get a snot-covered film strip of photos of all the people you went out drinking with. For me, they were a lot of fun because every strip was a collection of four completely random shots taken at the most awkward moments,… Read.
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snackies
After ringing up my purchase at Mounds Pet Food Warehouse, the cashier asked, “Would you like a mounds bar?” “Um, no?” I answered. Then, after she took my money, I followed up with, “What is that, a doggy treat?” She held up a Peter-Paul Mounds candy bar. “It’s a people treat! And it’s free!” Oh.… Read.
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picture this
I have this recurring dream that I live in an enormous house and I’m walking through room after room to get something from one particular room that seems to be somewhere on the other side of the county line. Sometimes the house is almost completely empty of people and sometimes there isn’t so much as… Read.
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