Category: daily drivel
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trumpet
Boo woke me this morning by sticking her muzzle in my ear and uttering a single, piercing “Miaow!” It was like sitting right next to a stereo speaker while Louis Armstrong opened a song by blasting a high-C quarter note. More accurately, it was like having a five-year-old standing next to my bed on Saturday… Read.
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blowin’
As I was scanning the headlines on NPR’s web site, my eyes flitted across a headline that turned the crank on my admittedly already-cranky disposition: “Blowin’ In The Wind Still Asks The Hard Questions.” Heavy sigh. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say something like, “Blowin’ In The Wind Asks Needlessly Cryptic Questions That Are… Read.
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score
I’ve been wandering through Saint Vinnie’s for weeks without finding a single thing I considered for a moment worth purchasing. Then, today, I wandered in, not expecting to find anything, yet within five short minutes of walking in the front door, I was cradling a copy of the Jules Verne Omnibus, a big, thick, old-looking… Read.
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sidecar
Stepping out from the patio after dinner at Mickey’s Tavern last night, we spotted this amazing tandem bike with attached sidecar and had to stop to take a good, long look at it. It appeared to be largely home made, and the side car was equipped with an electric motor to give an added assist… Read.
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blank
I dreamed I was at work. I really hate it when that happens. At least this time it was more than a little unusual. This time, the office looked like a mash-up of all the offices I’ve ever worked in, a standard cubicle farm, but surrounded by racks of electronic equipment. Even the people who… Read.
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poo
My Darling B kissed me good-bye as I sat in the recliner finishing up another chunk of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. (Well, what do you call it when paperback prose is broken up by gaps or bars or stars? They’re not chapters – Ender’s Game has proper chapters. There’s probably a neater work than… Read.
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whiz
I think I caught most of the mice now. Maybe just the dumbest ones, I don’t know. They were coming to the trash bag that hangs under the kitchen sink to eat their dinner, and making one hell of a mess of it, too. Weren’t trying hard at all to hide what they were doing.… Read.
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13th
We celebrated Friday the 13th with not just the usual one, but TWO special events, and they were so conveniently close to one another we walked across the street to get from the first to the second. Sweet. The first event was, as My Darling B so eloquently describes it, Two Rubes Dine Fancy Night.… Read.
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cool
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Steve Curwood’s show, Living On Earth, explaining why sending people into space is a good thing: CURWOOD: So, tell me, why should we explore space, with people? TYSON: I’ve got my own reasons for exploring space, that I don’t presume others should have these reasons. I think we should explore space… Read.
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happy happy
I was so beat yesterday that I went to bed at 9:20 and I believe I was asleep at 9:23, maybe 9:22. That’s my best guess, anyway. I was asleep and couldn’t look at the clock. When I did look at the clock again, it was 3:28, and that was after I laid awake for… Read.
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