Category: daily drivel
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deadwood
December 10, 2009: A crazy powerful snowstorm hammers the Madison metro area: The snow was heavy and wet. It clumped up on trees like badly-applied Christmas flocking and tore branches off all over town. The lilac in our back yard was quickly overwhelmed, but it wasn’t until a few weeks later that it became apparently… Read.
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felled
I spent the afternoon trimming branches off some of the bushes in the yard that got hammered pretty badly by the monster snowfall we had back in December. After having a look at the damage to the great big cedar in the front yard I figured it had to come down completely; the problem was,… Read.
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civily disobedient
To answer the sign-holder in the back: Well of course you don’t have to pay your taxes if that’s how you want to protest a policy. That’s what democracy’s about. It gets you thrown in jail, but that’s sort of the point of bucking authority. Not paying your taxes won’t keep congress from enacting programs… Read.
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the American way
Now that the nation is committed to Socialism, thanks to the newly-passed health care bill, I thought I’d post just one or two thoughts about the “conversation” going on about health care reform before our totalitarian overlords enslave us all with their mind control rays. It’s a virtual conversation because I can’t actually scream in… Read.
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step and POP
Our cha-cha lesson introduced the step and POP! Which means nothing to you, except this: Everything we learned up to this point, all the practice we put in getting our moves down, amounted to pretty much nothing when our instructor asked us to stick a step and POP! in there. The whole dance sequence came… Read.
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moon man
Buzz Aldrin, who hoofed his way along the surface of the moon forty years ago, is trying out his moves on Dancing With The Stars. I thought I might have heard about this the other day on the radio but figured it was just my tin ear picking up a name that sounded like “Buzz… Read.
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oats
I went swimming last night in a great big, shallow pool, the kind you sometimes find in campgrounds filled with kids. In fact, it was filled with kids, hundreds of them, and I kept bumping into them as I swam under the surface of the water from one side of the pool to the other.… Read.
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strays
Time for a few stray thoughts. I haven’t done this in a while, and I can’t come up with anything but complete randomness right now, so the timing seems auspicious: Granola. I eats it. I didn’t used to because I thought it was ucky, and I thought it was ucky because it was pretty bad… Read.
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final
Well, who’s going to come clean this up, then? Because it’s not gonna be me! I’m done shoveling snow. We here in Wisconsin have a saying about winter: It’s not over until April. March may get warm enough to go out in shirtsleeves and shorts, but there’s at least one cold snap and snowfall coming… Read.
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guy night
I had to come up with something quick and easy to serve for guy night because I had to have plenty of time to perform a minor plumbing unblockage on the pipe that the kitchen sink drains into. When it’s blocked all the goop backs up and pools in the basement sink. It’s pretty gross.… Read.
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