Category: daily drivel
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smith corona no 8
Not sure what to open with today, so I guess I’ll go with some machine porn: Bonus points if you’re under 18 years of age and can correctly identify what this is. No fair asking mom. Read.
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gonna coffee all day
Seems like I am just not going to be awake today. Funky weird sleep last night, kept waking up, would lay awake for at least one gong of the clock in the front room, then fall into dreamless sleep only to wake up again. The common factor seemed to be a bubble of gas big… Read.
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lair
Can you find Bonkers the Cat in this photo of my basement lair? I bought a new camera a few weeks ago because I lost my old camera. Just lost it. I was taking photos while I was brewing beer or hammering on some wood or something, so between photos I put it somewhere very… Read.
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peckerhead
“Your woodpecker’s back!” My Darling B called to me as I was making coffee Saturday morning. Five seconds later, if you’d been my neighbor you would’ve been treated to the sight of me galloping across my back lawn in an undershirt and pajama pants, waving my arms in the air and cussing, “Get the hell… Read.
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1ribbon
I finally got a typewriter ribbon for the most recently-acquired typewriter in my collection. Did you know you can still get typewriter ribbons from Staples? You can, but only one at a time. That’s all I ever find on display at the Staples down the road. Just one. They must have a great big box… Read.
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truckstache
A truck with a mustache. That is all. Read.
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measurable laziness
A list of things I should get done this weekend: mow the back lawn pick up all the crap laying around in the back yard (should probably do that before I mow) clean up all the crap that’s accumulated on the deck mulch the branches I’ve pruned off bushes over the summer and piled in… Read.
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spammiest
I’ve gotten hit with a lot of spam from spam bots, but I have rarely seen a bot as ambitious as the one that showed up at drivel HQ this evening. It goes on for three or four pages nesting key words and phrases on top of each other, enclosing them in brackets, interrupting them… Read.
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winnings
Next time I win the Power Ball lottery (you didn’t know I’d won it before?), I’m going to use my winnings to rent a storefront in town. I’m going to hang a big sign over the door that says “Typewriter Repair Shop” in Courier Bold and set all my typewriters in the window. In the… Read.
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novocain
It’s a face that’s a lot easier to make after your mouth’s been shot full of novocain. Try it next time after you get back from the dentist’s. Read.
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