Category: daily drivel
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etaoin shrdlu
I locked myself out of my e-mail account at the office yesterday morning while I was suffering one of those brain cramps that won’t let me remember what my password is for nothin’! It’s a simple password; it’s not really even a word, which is in fact one of the rules you’re always told to… Read.
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Party Politics
Saith James Madison, writing as Publius to the people of New York, November 23, 1787: The latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government,… Read.
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I Ain’t No Job
How weird is life, eh? I spent a (mostly) happy twenty-one year career in the military, then voted with my feet when a bunch of flag-pin politicians decided the military was a vital part of their regime-change policy and not, as I’d always believed, a means of defending the constitution. After retirement I landed a… Read.
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In Future
A story about patience and civility: While I was living in Bedford, England, about a million years ago, I used to take the train to London just about every chance I got and wander around because, you know, cool! Why wouldn’t I, right? I mean, when was I ever going to get the chance to… Read.
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Ice Knives
My lunch hour stroll was not at all the pleasant experience it was yesterday. This is the trouble with unseasonably warm days in the middle of winter, and make no mistake, we’re still in the middle of winter. I kept catching sight of the sun shining out the window and remembering what a lovely walk… Read.
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No Tango
No dancing tonight – My Darling B’s feeling a little under the weather still. She came down with a freakishly nasty head cold last Friday night, spent pretty much all weekend in bed trying to sleep it off and was feeling well enough to try to tough it out through two days at work, but… Read.
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Sunny Day
This was the first time in almost two weeks that I was able to take a long, leisurely stroll around the neighborhood on my lunch break. I took two lunchtime walks during the recent deep-freeze, but they were much less leisurely and more like trotting than strolling or walking. I was torqued so tightly with… Read.
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BLAM!
The ordinarily even-tempered academic Henry Adams goes all Chuck Norris on De Witt Clinton: With a violence that startled uninitiated bystanders, Cheetham in his American Citizen [newspaper] flung one charge after another at [Aaron] Burr; first his judiciary vote; then his birthday toast; then the suppression of a worthless history of the last Administration written… Read.
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Black Screen of Death
Drivel HQ went on the blink the other day while I was listening to tunes on Pandora and hammering away at some lumber in the far corner of the basement. Putting down the hammer, I trotted over to the computer and jogged the mouse around on the table top. Nothing. Batted at the keyboard a… Read.
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Do Not Phone
So awfully glad it’s Friday. Not for the usual reasons, though. I spent the last four days on the telephone returning calls from three-hundred customers who called in a panic when they received a letter from our office that told them how to report their continuing education courses when they renewed, only they thought it… Read.
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