Category: daily drivel
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early
A train whistle was honking in the distance when I stepped out of the house for a walk this morning. A lonely train whistle was blowing in the distance when I stepped out of the house for a walk this morning. Why are train whistles sort of romantic when they’re “lonely,” and really annoying when… Read.
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classic
It’s Tuesday night, and you know what that means: Classic Cocktail Night. We pondered long and hard to decide which of the classic cocktails – martini, Old Fashioned, Manhattan, whiskey sour, zombie with a hangover – we would have tonight, and after careful consideration we decided upon the Classic Cocktail. No kidding, there’s a drink… Read.
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bookless
“I don’t get art,” My Darling B confessed, as we wandered from room to room at the former Madison Public Library on Saturday night. All the books and most of the shelves had been removed to a temporary location while they build the new library, and to collect a little extra dough they opened up… Read.
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sake
How could I have lived so long without knowing what good sake tasked like? For years, every glass of sake I’d brought to my lips smelled like turpentine and tasted worse. I really, really didn’t like sake until I was stationed in Japan for four years and was lucky enough to meet people who not… Read.
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premonition
I have this idea that dreams are a premonition of what it’s going to be like when you get old and start to disconnect from reality. A warning, really. You go walking around in public without any pants on, you do things that don’t make any sense but you pretend that it’s perfectly normal and… Read.
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maintain
The spam bots are back! After ignoring my blog for months, and frankly deflating my ego quite a bit (the spam bots wouldn’t even read my blog!), I’m back to getting half a dozen comments every day that are complete gibberish (except for the response from Lindsey Lohan – apparently, she loves my blog!) and… Read.
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beercheese
The most unexpected thing to happen to me this weekend: I ran into a distant relative at the Isthmus beer and cheese festival. Standing in the middle of the room with My Darling B, just minutes after we got there, I looked up from the map we were using to plan our attack on the… Read.
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shoveling
I am shoveling snow off the driveway. Yes, right now. No, I’m not holding an actual shovel in my hands right now. Okay, I’m not in the driveway right now, either. I’m in my basement lair, drinking coffee, but my belief is unshakable that, if I’m only taking a fifteen-minute break from shoveling snow, I… Read.
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awake
I made it through the whole day and managed to stay upright somehow, even though I woke up at two in the morning when the cat started horking and couldn’t get back to sleep while he cleaned himself. Noisiest damned cat ever. How loud do you have to be to clean yourself, anyway? Pretty damned… Read.
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layer
Folks, I am wearing three layers of clothes right now. That’s two more than any guy should have to wear in his own house. But happily, I discovered a set of long underwear in the bottom of the tub filled with winter clothes next to the wardrobe that I’ve been meaning to unpack for at… Read.
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