Category: daily drivel
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thelma and louise
I watched “Thelma and Louise” for the first time last night. No, I don’t know why I waited so long. Sometimes I just never get around to seeing a movie while it’s in theaters and keep putting off when it’s the most popular rental, and then it sort of fades into the background and I… Read.
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how to deduce your religion
Can relate. “If I’m being honest, I don’t know anything about my own religion. I wasn’t raised religious. I had to deduce that shit for myself. So: I’m one of five kids; my parents are filled with anger and guilt. You put those two symptoms in google, you’re Catholic. I tell people I’m Catholic but,… Read.
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drenched
There wasn’t enough rainfall in August to speak of, but September seems to be more than determined to make up for it. It’s been raining for 5 days straight. Maybe 6. The days are blurring together, but I’m pretty sure rain started falling on Monday and although there have been pauses here and there, the… Read.
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wtf
Well this is not good … DHS reported 1,547 positives cases in Wisconsin today. Almost one-third of those (482) were in Dane County, and 395 of the Dane County positives came from the UW-Madison. Open the university, Tommy Thompson said. Great idea, Tommy. Nice going. Good job. (The tip of today’s spike is only at… Read.
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cooling off
We passed a seasonal milestone today: the first day after summer when we used the furnace. It’s been cool and rainy for the last 2-3 days, but this morning was so chilly that even My Darling B could not wear enough layers to keep warm, so she switched on the furnace. It obliged her by… Read.
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spiked
So much for the theory that if you don’t test as much, you don’t get so many new cases. New cases per day in Dane County and in Wisconsin take a massive jump while testing remains flat or decreases. Read.
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Venting
Pardon me while I … vent. The guys who put the siding on my house installed the dryer vent on the bottom. It’s basically a flimsy aluminum tube shoved through a hole in the wall with four flimsy plastic flaps to shut out the weather. It’s not screwed or glued or fastened to the wall… Read.
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casualties
Frank and Theresa Dentremont had avoided contracting COVID by self-isolating in their cabin on Cedar Lake near Millinocket, Maine for the past four months. Theresa died of COVID two weeks after a wedding in East Millinocket, and Frank remains hospitalized, on oxygen. The wedding, attended by 62 people, spread COVID to 123 people in a… Read.
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gobbets
I was standing at the kitchen counter the other day making coffee when my bare feet picked up a stray shard of glass from one of the many water glasses Scooter has broken in the past weeks. My Darling B and I have a habit of leaving our water glasses unattended, and Scooter has the… Read.
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