Category: daily drivel
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No, after you
Biking to work today, I slowed down at the spot where the bike trail crossed Blount because a Budweiser beer truck was coming up the road. He was moving pretty slow but I’m pretty slow sometimes too and I didn’t want to get smooshed like a bug, so I stopped. I had to wait a… Read.
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cat plan
The cats came so close to realizing their nefarious plan. For weeks, they’ve been waking me up a little earlier each day by standing at the foot of our bed mewling, or jumping on my head, and I’ve been obliging them by getting up and feeding them, thinking that with a little food in their… Read.
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lost weekend
I was sitting here just now, gazing out the window at the misty morning as I sipped piping hot joe from an oversized cup, wondering where the hell the weekend went already. Last week was like drowning for five days straight, smothered in a sea of dumbassery (special thanks to Charlie Pierce for my new… Read.
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trading liberty NOT
There’s one trope zipping around out there at the moment in connection with the current storm over phone records and data mining that makes me a little bit crazy – and that is the discussion of whether or not the American people will “trade off” civil liberties for what is really merely a sense of… Read.
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Oolong
This is Oolong the rabbit, who was apparently an internet meme about ten years ago. Ten years ago I hadn’t even heard of internet memes. I have so much catching up to do that I’d never be able to catch up if I could afford to make it my full-time job. I’m pretty sure this… Read.
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worse worser worsest
I’m up in the middle of the night because I can’t stop thinking about work. Is there a worst-case case of insomnia worse than that? No. No, there’s not. You can’t make me believe there is. I won’t listen. When I woke up, I promised myself I wasn’t going to look at the clock. This… Read.
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am I a vampire?
The automatic doors at the co-op don’t open for me. Maybe I’m some kind of technological-age vampire. I don’t mean to say they won’t open for me. I can make the door open if I back up a few steps, then walk toward the door again, or wave my hands in the air over my… Read.
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slurpy
Bonkers was – it’s another post about my cat, folks. Spare yourselves. Turn the channel now. (Does anybody still say “turn the channel” anymore? I haven’t been paying attention. It used to make sense when there was a dial on the front of the television that you had to grab and twist, but even though… Read.
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bunny
This little guy’s hiding out on our front lawn: He’s about a week old. Several of his brothers and sisters are hiding nearby, but we haven’t seen them yet. Read.
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shirt sleeves
Yesterday was the first time this year that I was able to ride my bicycle to work in shirt sleeves, and, it has to be said, they were short sleeves. It was about sixty degrees, a little on the cool side of comfortable for me, but the sun was out and I warmed myself up… Read.
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