Category: daily drivel
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moving on
This was my last day working at the offices of the Department of Safety and Professional Services, known as the Department of Regulation and Licensing when I was hired there a little more than three years ago. On Monday morning when My Darling B and I climb into the O-Mobile to start the commute to… Read.
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crappy govt web site
The government rolled out a crappy web site. That’s gotta be kind of typical, right? I mean, how many government web sites have you been to that were user-friendly? And how many of those crappy web sites has congress spent a whole week investigating? Seriously, those guys have way too much time on their hands. Read.
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summary
This Friday will be my last day at the office, so my coworkers organized a nice little pot luck dinner as a going-away for me. They booked a conference room and brought plenty of delicious goodies and we sat around the table for about an hour during the lunch break and shot the bull while… Read.
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stuff and nonsense
The first thing I did today, after I got out of bed and drank way too much coffee, was get fingerprinted so the Department of Transportation could do a background check on me, one of the conditions of being hired by them. Oh wait, did I mention that I got a new job? No? Well,… Read.
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political Godzilla
Sarah Palin? She just stomps around and makes noise. She’s a political Godzilla. – My Darling B Read.
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books as sharks
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still… Read.
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goat man
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California Day 6
Woke up this morning, rubbed the sleepers from my eyes, tumbled out of the van and went staggering up the road to the office-slash-general store to get a cup of coffee. Halfway back to our camp site I slowed to a stop as I caught sight of B standing just outside the van, binoculars in… Read.
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misfire
I woke up out of a sound sleep, rolled over to see what time it was, got out of bed because it was five o’clock, the time I normally feed the cats, thinking that I’ll just put a dollop of food in their dishes, then go back to bed. I thought it was Saturday. I… Read.
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Sunday morning brain vomit
I’m pretty sure this is the weirdest thing you’ll see all day. Let me know if I’m wrong. “Provide two (2) forms of identification …” That parenthetical aside has always bugged me. Always. I’ve had a long, weird admiration for legalese since I learned how to write, but the addition of that parenthetical numeral has… Read.
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