Category: daily drivel
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Attack of THE SNOWNAMI!
Here’s the obligatory snapshot of me and T-Dawg shoveling about a foot and a half of snow off the driveway. I can’t tell how much snow actually fell – probably only six or eight inches – but the driving wind heaped up drifts at least a foot and a half high of snow like cake… Read.
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Snownami
This is the problem with superlatives: We’ve already had the ‘snowpocalypse’ and ‘snowmageddon.’ ‘Blizzard of 2011’ sounds so mundane. So what are we going to call this thing? I heard that a local television station is calling it ‘The Snow Beast.’ Oh, how cute. My Darling B wants to call it THE SNOWNAMI. That might… Read.
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Deer Here
Okay, I’m one of those guys who posts photos of wild animals in his yard. So sue me. It’s not every night five deer wander into our Monona neighborhood and hang around for the better part of a half-hour, browsing at the grass poking through the edges of our driveway and what’s left of the… Read.
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A box?
I read a bunch of web comics every morning because that’s about all the mental activity I’m good for at six in the morning, and because I like them. They’re all lined up in the lower right-hand corner under the label “Web Comics” because I need labels at six in the morning, too. When I… Read.
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Beer and Cheese
Beer and cheese! They had gallons of the former and tons of the latter at the convention center yesterday afternoon, where I passed the time wandering from booth to booth with My Darling B, or passing most of the time with her, as it turned out. We got separated about midway through the afternoon and… Read.
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Barely here
Well, here we are again so soon. Feels as though it’s been only two or three hours since I sat here banging on the keyboard, and Hey! It has! I have no idea how much sleep I ended up getting last night – judging from the way I feel right now, ten, maybe fifteen minutes… Read.
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Urp
When I slide into a bed heavy with quilts on a cold winter night and curl up for my voyage to the land of nod, the thought that runs through my head should not be: Oh crap, am I going to have a sleepless night? Because when it is, chances are pretty good that it… Read.
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Unstuck in time
I had one of those weird what-day-is-it moments while we were in the middle of a dance lesson last night. I really, really thought it was Wednesday, somehow, even though we’ve had our lesson on Tuesday night for I don’t know how long. I don’t know when or how I convinced myself that it was… Read.
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Way Back
When I got out of the car yesterday morning in front of the office, I was instantly reminded of Berlin: The air was sub-freezing but yet still somehow clammy, a thin fog hung over everything and the sky was sealed up so tightly by a murky overcast that only the dimmest rays of the morning… Read.
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Meaning
Okay, so if you’re one of those people who believes a dream means something, try to noodle this one out: Last night, I dreamed I was making coffee in the toilet bowl. It worked surprisingly well except that when it was ready I flushed it. Muscle memory, I guess. That’s all I remember about it,… Read.
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