Category: daily drivel
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gardetto’s
You know how sometimes you open a package of Gardetto’s and it’s nothing but pretzels, and that’s all right but what you really wanted were the crunchy brown melba toast slices? And then other times it’s just chock full of the crunchy brown melba toast slices and when it’s like that your whole day is… Read.
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aging
I think My Darling B and I may have crossed the line and become Old People. Not just older people, but certifiably Old People, as in crotchety old, cane-waving, get-off-my-lawn Old People. The evidence is mounting, and seemingly irrefutable. See if you don’t agree: We both wear glasses now. I’ve been wearing glasses for dozens… Read.
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gesundtheit
A cat sneezed in my face yesterday morning. I washed my face like I have never washed it before. I lathered up every last square inch of skin surface. I scrubbed my face from top to bottom and side to side. Every little nook and cranny got special attention. I washed my lips, and rinsed… Read.
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wad
I gathered up all my work clothes just before dinner last night and dumped them on top of the wash machine. I didn’t put them in the wash machine, as many sane people would have done, because the machine’s in a little alcove just off the dining room, and who wants to listen to it… Read.
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nailed
I found a glove nailed to a telephone pole while I was taking a walk around the neighborhood near the office building where I work. I’ve seen lots of gloves dangling from nails in telephone poles (and fence posts, and buildings), so many it’s not even worth remarking on them, but this was a glove… Read.
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consume
My Darling B and I were watching The Big Bang Theory last night when we ran into a glitchy DVD that frustrated every attempt to get past the road block. We don’t subscribe to cable or satellite television, so we can’t watch television, but occasionally we check out DVDs from the library of shows we’ve… Read.
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stroll
I walked home from the office yesterday, just to see if I could still use my legs for more than a mile or two at a stretch. As it turned out, I can. But it also turned out that, when I got home, I had to put my feet up on the recliner for twenty… Read.
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infinity
I’ve always understood that nothing travels faster than the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object to light speed. I’m not saying that’s correct, mind you, I’m only saying that’s what I’ve been given as an explanation for why the speed of light is an absolute.… Read.
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eternity
My Darling B seemed to think she could leave some foods in the freezer “for eternity.” I pointed out that she couldn’t, but she insisted she could. “But eventually the continent will be flooded,” I pointed out, “and if we’re talking really long-term, when the sun dies it will engulf the whole planet, and everything… Read.
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paperless environment
I went to Menard’s last night to buy some sandpaper. All I wanted was some sandpaper so I could sand down a slab of plywood I wanted to use for a desk top so I could apply a second coat of shellac to it. Menard’s had all kinds of sandpaper, as long as I wanted… Read.
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