Category: daily drivel
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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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fent
The garden fence is done. Well, mostly. I still want to replace the chicken wire on the gates, but the hard part’s done. No more bunnies eating up all our delicious yummy greens. Read.
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in-and-out
What a week it’s been. What am I saying? Every week’s one of those “What a week it’s been!” weeks. Chewed up at the front end, soaked in sewer water all through the middle, and pooped out the back end. But at least I’m out. And one more lucky guy got out for good. One… Read.
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served
The internet police were after me last night. I didn’t sleep very well, and every time I woke up and then fell back into drowsy semi-consciousness I was treated to another variation of some guy in dark glasses making vaguely threatening accusations and serving me with a warrant to seize my computer as evidence. That… Read.
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mandate
Broccoli. I can’t open a newspaper, switch on the radio, or surf the internet without being reminded of the wisdom of supreme court justice Antonin Scalia, who wonders if the federal government will be forcing us all to buy broccoli soon. Gee, Mr. Scalia, would that really be so bad for anybody? Considering what the… Read.
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wakey-wakey
Boo has apparently come to the conclusion that we should not sleep in on Saturdays. Every weekday morning, I get out of bed at five o’clock, start the coffee pot, take a shower, eat breakfast. She doesn’t pay any attention at all to me then, but on Saturday mornings, starting as early as six o’clock,… Read.
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seeded
Planting season has arrived. It’s official when dinners go from being meticulously prepared over a period of hours and eaten long after sundown, to being deli-sliced pastrami and cheese sandwiches with a bag on chips on the side – still eaten after sundown, but now so that My Darling B can spend the last hour… Read.
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proscription
My physical therapist said I was well on the road to recovery from the tendenoidal impingement of my rotator cuff. He said it a lot better than I did, but maybe you get the idea anyway. And he said no more sleeping on my side, ever. He said it in such an offhand way, as… Read.
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