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Category: daily drivel

  • artistic

    The public bathroom at the Willy Street Co-Op: I guess some guys need something to keep their hands busy while they’re standing there. I can’t draw, but I know a few snappy quotations I could dash off … not that I really want to pick up that chalk, even when there’s soap and plenty of… Read.

  • geekiness pays off

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    “Got time for a question that doesn’t have anything to do with anything?” Tim asked me the other day. I just love questions that don’t have anything to do with anything, so I said, “Shoot!” “If you want to increase the amount of heat in a circuit, do you increase the voltage or the current.”… Read.

  • so close

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    WE’RE SO CLOSE TO SPRING! About a week ago, when winter finally showed the first signs of letting up on us just a bit, My Darling B went out to her garden to paw through the snow cover, searching for sprouting garlic but, so sad, couldn’t find any. This week, it’s been even warmer, and… Read.

  • sleeping arrangements

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    I woke at about four o’clock this morning and was at a complete loss to explain the reason for it. I hadn’t had a dream about a bear chasing and eating me, I didn’t have a cramp in my calf strong enough to bend steel, I hadn’t tried to swallow my tongue while snoring. With… Read.

  • weekend wrap-up

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    Weekend Wrap-Up: Saturday Farmer’s Market: A delicious breakfast featuring a pesto Monte Cristo with bread pudding, mushy granola & cranberries, and apple quarters mixed up with some kind of sweet potato stuff. I loved everything except the sweet potato stuff. Saint Vinnie’s: brought home copies of Henry Hitchings’ Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of… Read.

  • food for aliens

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    If one billion people on this planet drink a cup of coffee every day, and one billion people drink a cup of tea … it’s probably way more than that, but you get the idea … then where is all that coffee and tea coming from? How’s it even possible that people can grow that… Read.

  • schmoozing

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    My barber congratulated me on keeping myself looking so fit in spite of being just shy of fifty years old. He guessed my age to within a few months, but he was way off about the keeping fit. “You go visit the gym every day, don’t you?” he asked. I frowned at him. “What?” I… Read.

  • creepy bot

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    Just hours after I posted my rant about a telemarketer trying to sell me a Charter Communications cable package, a comment appeared after the post that was apparently from a representative of Charter offering to put me on their Do Not Call list if I just gave them my name and phone number. I was… Read.

  • dead flies

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    Your barber is like your doctor. He can say things to you that ordinary people can’t say to each other, not if he expects to get away with it. Your doctor can tell you you’re fat and flabby, and do it with a straight face. “You’re twenty pounds overweight. You should go to the gym… Read.

  • lappy

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    Our cats are both “lappy,” Bonkers more so than Boo. Bonkers almost always sits in my lap, Boo in B’s lap. When I was too busy to share a lap the other night, though, Bonkers jumped up in B’s lap after he thought he’d waited long enough. Then Boo, green-eyed monster that she can be,… Read.

photo of the author and the author's best friend