Category: daily drivel
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maskless
Went to Java Cat yesterday morning to pick up some beans. The line for the drive-up was backed up to the road, so I pulled into the parking lot expecting to wait for the line to shorten up, but as I pulled in I noticed customers going in and out the front door, so I… Read.
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right there
Lots of actors made repeat appearances on Star Trek in different roles and I usually felt pretty smug about spotting them, but I somehow repeat-watched episodes like “Arena” and “A Taste of Armageddon” and never realized the guy who played Captain Christopher Pike was sitting front and center the whole time! Read.
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why a Dutchman
When I was just a wee lad and I did something I shouldn’t have done, my grandmother Cleo would scold me by saying something that sounded like, “Nix kommer rouse in the Dutchman’s house!” My mother and my uncle confirm that she said the same to them, and that the meaning was clearly, “don’t do… Read.
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extra hour
Woke up early, tossed and turned, heard the clock strike four, gave in to the reality that I wasn’t going back to sleep. While I was getting dressed, noticed my phone said the time was a little after five o’clock, which made me feel a little better. I don’t know why I feel bad about… Read.
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NEVER EVER
If I live to be 100 years old, I will never understand how anybody in the States was comfortable with spreading a disease that killed more than half a million Americans in less than a year, when all they had to do to prevent it was wear a mask and avoid crowding together. Read.
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popcorn
When My Darling B is puttering around the house, she hums the first few bars of the 1972 top ten hit “Popcorn” instead of humming some made-up nonsense like “tum te tum tum” the way the rest of us do. Read.
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knots to you
35 years ago this month I went to San Antonio to start basic training in the Air Force. One of the skills we had to master in basic was getting dressed, running downstairs and falling into formation in an impossibly short time, something like thirty seconds. At first we couldn’t do it because most of… Read.
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a small measure of hope
“Trump is not president and his ilk are not the executive branch.” — first thought to pop into my head after waking this morning. It’s beginning to sink in that our country is not entirely governed by raving lunatics. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the rest of those lickspittle Trumpophiles are still in, so our… Read.
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the hill we climb
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We’ve braved the belly of the beast We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace And the norms and notions of what just is Isn’t always just-ice And yet the dawn is… Read.
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weed man
I got a visit from the Weed Man today. He wasn’t selling weed. That would have been something I’d have considered buying. He was selling lawn care. In January. As in, the first week in January, while our yard was covered in a couple inches of snow, we got a knock on the door from… Read.
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