Category: daily drivel
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Kitchen Explosion
My Darling B plans to serve a huge turkey with stuffing for dinner today and decided to prepare it by soaking it in a big stock pot filled with a mixture of water, soy sauce, sugar and various herbs. She lined the pot with a big plastic bag and asked me to help her get… Read.
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New Year’s Eve
Today’s New Year’s Eve so we get the day off because we’re state workers. It’s one of the benefits that are showered on us like confetti at a hero’s ticker-tape parade. I can’t wait to see how that’s going to change. Watch this space. But for now, we’re enjoying the day off: Sleeping in a… Read.
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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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