Category: daily drivel
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fumes
I had to stop at the gas station on the way home from the Brian Regan show. When I pulled up to the pumps, I saw that the guy who was there before me bought five dollars worth of gas. That must have been the shortest fill-up ever. Squeeze that handle and CHUNK! You’re done.… Read.
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starve
I’m going to remember not to eat this time. Day before yesterday, I had an appointment at the clinic to get my blood drawn for tests. I wasn’t supposed to eat anything after dinner the night before, and I remembered not to eat anything after dinner. The next morning, though, I didn’t remember anything. So… Read.
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void
I did not dream anything last night. The last thing I remember about last night is turning out the light, rolling onto my stomach and finding just the right angle for my head before I surrendered to unconsciousness. The next thing I remember is hearing the alarm going bleep bleep bleep. There was no in-between,… Read.
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apples
My Darling B is trying to work out how much we should pay in sales tax for all the purchases we make on the internet. According to what she found in the tax code, we do not have to pay sales tax for the subscription to the ISP that hosts this blog because we are… Read.
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tsunami
And I thought I had some ineffable dreams: During last night’s dream, I sat with a group of friends in the luxurious atrium of a vast hotel, gleefully rejoicing that because and although the world had just stopped spinning, we were lucky to find ourselves on its sunny side, if a little late in the… Read.
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reptile
The president is a lizard. Not in the metaphorical sense, like being cold-blooded as a way of saying he coolly calculates his political moves, or he blends in with the background, or he’s shifty or whatever else it is lizards are. He’s an actual, two-legged lizard. This is no big secret. Many, many people with… Read.
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plug
It was a warm summer’s day, so I was sitting on the back stoop soaking up the sunshine with a book in one hand and a cool, refreshing drink in the other. Birds sang from the trees. Clouds danced across the skies. A really annoying bug flew into my ear, or that’s what it felt… Read.
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physical
I had a physical on Friday, mostly because my last physical was just before I retired from the Air Force seven years ago. Kids, don’t try this at home. You should probably see a doctor a little more regularly than your Unka Dave does. It was the whole kit and kaboodle, starting with an exhaustive… Read.
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spirit
Oh, what a night! We spent yesterday evening at the Edgewater Hotel, soaking up some delicious spirits at Distill America, the annual exhibition of local (and a few not-so-local) distillers. I was very pleasantly surprised by how many distillers are right here in the Midwest. Off the top of my head, I can think of… Read.
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collapse
OMFG: Some Wall Street investors made money as the mortgage market boomed; others profited when it fell apart. Having reaped big gains during both of those turns, Greg Lippmann, a former star trader at Deutsche Bank, is now catching the next upswing: buying the same securities built from mortgages that he bet against before the… Read.
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