Category: daily drivel
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Softly
I was down on my knees this morning with my trusty toothbrush and a can of Ajax cleanser, uprooting all the fuzzy little plants and slaying the romping animals that grow in the grouting between the tiles in our bathroom, and I found myself asking this question: Why do they even make hard toothbrushes? See,… Read.
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March on the capitol
There were about a million people on cap square this afternoon, even while the snow and the temperature were both falling. If it wasn’t literally a million, it looked like a million. I’ve never seen a million people in one place, so I’m not sure what that looks like, but what I saw was that… Read.
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Al dente
Somehow I left the house this morning and forgot to brush my teeth. Man, that’s the worst, isn’t it? No, it wasn’t. After I drank the rest of my coffee and ate beans and weenies for lunch, THEN it was the worst. So on my lunch break I walked up to the Willy Street Co-op… Read.
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Bonk!
And again: Kitty! Because I wanted to make it up to you for all the political crap coming out of Wisconsin lately. We can do the interwebs the way it’s supposed to be done. Read.
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Detect this!
First of all: Kitty! And now for something completely different: While the Assembly galleries will be open to the public on Tuesday, spectators will have to step through a metal detector. It’s the first time metal detectors have been used during the protests. (Associated Press, via the Herald Times-Reporter) I’ve lived in Madison just a… Read.
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Repair this bill
Okay, one more post about the political shenanigans in Wisconsin and then I’ll go back to drivel about choo-choo trains and kittens, promise. One of the many changes to the pay of state workers that will come out of the governor’s so-called budget repair bill is that they won’t be able to ask for an… Read.
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Union
Wowzers, was it cold on cap square this afternoon! Even so, we wanted to see how many union members would show up for a pro-union rally on the steps of the capitol, and at first it looked like there wouldn’t be more than a couple hundred. When we showed up, there was a smattering of… Read.
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union
When the protests to the governor’s so-called budget repair bill began, my son asked me if I didn’t think it was only fair and right that the state workers share some of the sacrifice. His question frankly surprised the hell out of me because I really thought that, if he saw that this question tipped… Read.
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Wiring Diagram
I’m just kicking back with a pint of coffee stout after finishing a job wiring an electrical outlet that should have taken twenty minutes but ended up taking a little over five hours. It should have taken only twenty minutes because I already wired up a string of electrical outlets that I mounted on the… Read.
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Fireworks
Our favorite Madison pizzeria, The Roman Candle, supports union workers with a 10% discount! And they personalize your pizza box! My Darling B is finally feeling well enough to go out in public again, so we celebrated by stopping by the Roman Candle for a big pizza pie. Demonstrators heading home from cap square with… Read.
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