Category: daily drivel
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shredded
Listening to Car Talk on the radio this morning, we heard the story of a guy who stuffed an athletic sock down the intake manifold of his car to avoid dropping anything down there while he was working on it and then, of course, he forgot the sock was in there and put the engine… Read.
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results
“Now that you’ve been working for the state for almost a year,” one of my coworkers asked me, “which bureaucracy do you think is more mixed-up, the military or the state?” “The state, no question,” I said, without having to think about it at all. When he laughed and asked me why, I explained, “The… Read.
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dumbshit
I wash all my work clothes in the evening, but leave them until morning to throw them in the drier. That’s the guy way to get out of ironing. The trouble with this method is that I have to remember to throw them in the drier first thing in the morning, a time of the… Read.
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butch
One more goofy old-time photo, and then I’ll let it go for a while. I have no idea who these guys are, they could be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for all I know. Now that I’ve said that, I kind of hope they are. I’m pretty sure they’re not, though. They’re just two… Read.
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swingin’
I got this snapshot from one of the Great Big Photo Albums of People Related to Me but, unlike most of the other photo albums, this one was chock full of familiar faces. In this photo, weighing all of 98 pounds and swinging a solid-steel iron like nobody’s business, Cleo Mary Melchoir, who had this… Read.
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molten
I walked over to the co-op last week while a paving crew was laying new blacktop on the parking lot. Had to walk all the way around to the other side of the lot to get into the store. The whole front of the lot was fenced off with bright orange plastic webbing strung between… Read.
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pre-GTOTMW
Note to future self: When attending Great Taste of the Midwest Pre-Party, do not attempt to eat a hamburger that’s bigger than your head. Really, that thing must have weighed a half-pound at least, and they piled cheese, onion rings and two strips of bacon on top of it. Realizing my mistake, I ate just… Read.
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mine
Like the rest of the photos in the Great Big Photo Album of People Who Might Be Related To Me But I Don’t Know How, this one isn’t dated and there are no names or notes scribbled on the back. Still, I might actually know what’s going on here. My mother had an aunt everybody… Read.
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buster
I don’t think I’m related to Buster Keaton. Maybe. But I don’t think so. One in a series of photos from a great big album I inherited from my Mother, full of snapshots of people who may or may not be related to me. I have no idea who these people are. I don’t think… Read.
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nerd dream
I was crouching on the very edge of a raw metal deck plate with my arms straight out on either side of me, reaching just far enough to hold on to the struts that were the only things connecting the deck plates to the ship. With the main engines running at full throttle my feet… Read.
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