Category: daily drivel
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locked
The cats may have locked me out of my laptop. When I came home this afternoon It was sitting on the sideboard by the front window with the top up. The monitor was dark and wouldn’t come back on so I had to force it to shut down. Then, after I booted it up again,… Read.
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repeat
When I asked my Dad, “How much longer until we get there?” he would answer, “How Long is a Chinaman’s name?” As a joke, it was only middling funny. I didn’t get it the first time he used it. He kept using it anyway, and it became one of those jokes that’s funny just because… Read.
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nosh
The Madison Food and Wine Show was a tad disappointing this year. There didn’t seem to be as much food to sample, and neither My Darling B nor I thought that any of the wines we tasted were especially remarkable. There was lots of cheese kibbled and set out to try – this is Wisconsin,… Read.
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ink
I’m a huge geek for space flight. I’m not sure why it’s called “manned” when there are women doing it now, and I’m as puzzled about calling it “flight” when it can and often is done without wings, but even so, I geek out in a major way whenever I run across a book or… Read.
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photograph
I had a song stuck in my head all day long and for once it didn’t make me want to chew my own leg off to escape it. The song was “Photograph” by Def Lepard, and not the whole song, just the chorus. It kept playing over and over. I couldn’t stop it. But at… Read.
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slippers
And, just like that, we went from barefoot weather to slippers-wearing weather. I can go barefoot in my house about half the year, and in the summer I actively search out cool floors where my feet will bring relief to the rest of my broiling body, but the other half of the year I have… Read.
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fiat lux
A couple of bulbs in the lamp over the dining room table exploded last week. I may have mentioned that already. I never did figure out why it would ever do that, which made both me and My Darling B a little nervous. It’s a little hard to relax and enjoy dinner with a lamp… Read.
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carrie
I can’t believe our waitress changed the channel right in the middle of the final scene of the movie Carrie. And right after we lavishly tipped her. We were sitting right there when she changed it, too. Turned our chairs around and everything so we could see Cissy Spacek immolate everyone at the prom. Everyone… Read.
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tax
Not that you asked, but here’s my idea for a tax plan: Everybody pays the same percentage that I pay, and when I say “everybody,” I mean corporations too because, as everyone knows, corporations are people. This cannot possibly be class warfare. I’m asking only that everybody pay the same exact percentage of their income… Read.
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consistency
To The Editor: In your editorial comment, Capitol Common Sense (Oct 11, 2011), you wrote: Here’s how a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald made the argument this week for allowing concealed weapons inside the state Capitol. “So long as the Capitol remains open, our members, their staff and the public have a right to… Read.
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