Category: daily drivel
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Beddy-bye
I had almost as much trouble getting into bed last night as I usually do getting into the center seat of a commercial airliner. My Darling B turned in early because she’d been sick for the past few days and has been doing her darndest to get as much sleep as she can. She stayed… Read.
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Tap dance
I was trying to get our flat-screen TV to work without the remote, but it had no visible means of control that I could tell, but that couldn’t be. Why would they even make a TV that didn’t have some way to at least turn it on without a remote? So I looked all over… Read.
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Jonzin
Yesterday morning I wanted a Pop Tart so bad! I’d been banging away at a pile of paperwork all morning and when my ten o’clock break finally rolled around it was all I could do to beat back the urge (or the desire) to give in and go plug the snack machine for a packet… Read.
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Touchdown
Sean called us as soon as he landed in Denver last night to let us know his trip went without a hitch and he was all right. What a good boy. I know B likes to get the all-clear from him whenever he flies home, same as she likes to use her laptop to check… Read.
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To Grandmother’s House We Go
We all piled into the car yesterday morning and headed north to the ancestral manse of O to visit my Mom, far away in the snow-covered lands of Waupaca County. Until today’s visit, Mom hadn’t seen the Seanster in over a year, I think, probably not since the summer before last when he came to… Read.
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Coffee Coffee Coffee
In last night’s dream I was somehow involved in shooting a scene from a movie. I don’t remember much of that, just the coffee. After the scene was shot we all lined up at a roach coach to get some coffee and baked goods. John Cleese in full-on Basil Fawlty mode was serving brownies at… Read.
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Refrigerator
All I remember of last night’s dream is the end of it: I was walking home with a friend from my job as a cartoonist for a Chicago newspaper. He dropped me off at my apartment building before continuing on to his. My building was an almost featureless black cube about ten stories high that… Read.
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Prezzies!
We opened presents last night because I couldn’t wait any longer. The kids aren’t as jazzed about Christmas as they were when they were wee little bugs, but I was so excited about seeing My Darling B open the prezzie I got for her that I knew I’d pee my pants if I had to… Read.
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Goats Ate My Kid!
I don’t know why they puts goats in petting zoos, do you? Goats are pretty creepy-looking animals. They’re kind of skeletal with all those bony bumps, they’ve got demon eyes, and they’re always jerking around as if their own personal invisible devil is jabbing them up the behind with a sharpened, flaming stick. Yeh, let’s… Read.
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Pedicure
I pulled all my toenails off last night. [Heads-up for Sean: This was in a dream. I didn’t really.] I stepped out of the shower and, as I was drying off, I noticed that my toenails urgently needed a trimming, so I sat my butt down on the edge of the tub and carefully clipped… Read.
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