Category: daily drivel
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How I spent my birthday
I was in and out of the DMV on Wednesday morning in less than fifteen minutes to renew my driver’s license. That’s the good news. Wait, no; the good news is that there is no bad news. It’s all good news. I’ve never had such an easy time of going to the DMV. (Yay, me.)… Read.
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up and at ’em
It’s four-thirty in the morning, and it’s time for some coffee, because what else are you going to do if you’re awake at four-thirty in the morning besides make coffee? Everything else in the day comes later. When it’s that early, coffee’s the only thing that matters. Why am I out of bed at four-thirty… Read.
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mummy
I habba bloddy dose. I get these every winter, along with chapped hands. And there’s a sign of aging that I wish somebody had taken a moment to warn me about. “When you hit fifty, your hands are going to get chapped in the winter, sort of like how your lips get chapped except there’ll… Read.
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brew day
Live-Blogging Brew Day! The Queen has commanded that the next beer I brew be a vanilla porter, so that’s what’s on the agenda today. I looked up recipes for vanilla porters on teh intarwebs because I assumed there must be something special about them, but there’s not. They’re all just recipes for porters with a… Read.
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abby someone
Spaghetti for guy night, otherwise known as, “I don’t know,” the answer I gave B when she asked what I was going to make for dinner. I’d given it about ten minutes of thought all day long, so when I got in the car at the end of the day I figured I’d just hope… Read.
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conditioned
How often has this happened to you: You get out of the shower, dry yourself off, then stand in front of the mirror for a solid minute before you realize that the reason your hair looks so funny is that you forgot to rinse the conditioner out of it. B says it’s never happened to… Read.
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Alas Dave Brubeck
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morning walk #1
The phone rang at four o’clock this morning. I’ve never seen B run so fast to answer the phone as she did when she sprang out of bed and hustled into the living room. She doesn’t move that fast to answer the phone when she’s sitting right next to it. It turned out to be… Read.
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BSG
I stayed up way past my bedtime last night watching Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, a television show so special it went straight to YouTube before they broadcast it on the SyFy Network. In a few words: Looks great, stupid as hell. Or how about this: War movie cliche mashup in space. And there’s this:… Read.
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washateria
I took the day off from work because I had “use it or lose it” leave time to burn up. I don’t take enough time off, weirdly enough. Next week, I’m taking off on my birthday and I’ll probably end up doing what I did today, which was: Wash clothes. Fold clothes. Put clothes away.… Read.
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