Category: daily drivel
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chipped
I just finished disposing of the Christmas tree. Yes, I know that Christmas was six months ago. No, it’s not a point of pride. I’m lazy, and I admit it. After the holidays were over and we all went back to our jobs, I threw the Christmas tree into a corner of the garden because… Read.
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relief
A passing thunderstorm chased us all into the basement – me, My Darling B, and both cats – and though I made sure we had flashlights and candles down there with us, we didn’t have to use them. The lights flickered once or twice, but the power stayed on in spite of howling winds and… Read.
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jig
Learned how to do just a little bit of the Charleston last night, by which I mean that I know just enough to make myself look like I’m having an attack of the heebeejeebies, or I’m trying to stamp out a brush fire. I certainly don’t look like I’m dancing. But it could be a… Read.
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sleepless
I just finished folding about three weeks’ worth of washed clothes. We wash clothes almost every day, but we never seem to get around to folding them and putting them away. Some of them, the trousers and the good shirts, get half-folded so they lay flat and we can wear them straight off the top… Read.
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burgers and brew
We’re just back from Burgers & Brew, the annual fund-raiser put on by the REAP Food Group at the Capital Brewery. There, that’s about as many links as one sentence should be forced to hold. We got there about forty minutes early. It was blazing hot. The prospect of standing in the hot, hot sun… Read.
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wtf
Yesterday, I pulled up at a red light on Willy Street where it crossed the Yahara river. This light usually changes only when the people using the bicycle path press the button because they want to cross the street. There also happens to be a side road that connects to Willy Street there. When the… Read.
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self control
After lunch at Cronies Cafe yesterday my mom asked me, as we stepped out into the street, “Did you want to visit the book store?” “Oh, heck yes!” I answered, because, you know, books! She was referring to Book Cellar, a book store on main street. I stop by every time I visit because it… Read.
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chuffed
And, once again, life takes me a little further down a road I didn’t think I’d find myself on in the first place … About a month ago, one of the supervisors in our office announced her plans to retire. They posted the announcement that her job was available on the bulletin board in the… Read.
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inevitable
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, considering the inevitability of life: If you had asked your chemistry teacher fifty years ago, once you looked at that mysterious chart of boxes that sat in front of your class, the periodic table of elements, Where did those elements come from? The chemistry teacher would not have had an answer for… Read.
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summer
Ah, these are truly the days of summer, the days that start cool and clear with a slight, freshening wind. They warm up to temps in the seventies by midday, they’re not too humid, and the evenings are long enough to sit on the back stoop with a beer after supper where we can enjoy… Read.
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