Category: daily drivel
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pensive
Our dish washer’s broke, so we had to call Sears to get a technician out here to look at it and it’s one of those service calls they can’t give you an exact time for because timetables embolden the terrorists and endanger national security. So I took the day off from work to sit in… Read.
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creepy bot
I’d been sitting beside the phone for about an hour waiting for a phone call from the technician who’s supposed to come fix my dish washer. At some time this morning he promised to call and tell me when he’d be on the way. When the phone finally rang, it turned out to be a… Read.
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itchin
A gaggle of gun-totin’ self-defenders gathered at a Starbuck’s in Sussex yesterday to pick up some java before demonstrating at the headquarters of the State Patrol. Starbucks corporate policy allows people to pack heat in their stores if state law allows it. I love the quote from Krysta Sutterfield, one of the protesters, who generalized… Read.
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on the fritz
The dish washer is on the blink. Seems to be something wrong with the logic in the software, something I can’t fix with a screwdriver and a hammer. When I load it up and turn it on, the timer says it’s going to take 199 minutes to wash everything. Two hours later, the timer says… Read.
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flying hotcakes
Tonight’s talk radio was full of metaphors. Bad ones. Really bad ones. It started off with a discussion on the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Waziristan and all those other stans. There were quite a few bad actors on that stage, one of the listeners called in to say, and another one called in to venture… Read.
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bumper cars go bump
Here’s something that’ll keep My Darling B awake all night: STREET LEGAL BUMPER CARS! More street-legal bumper cars at CoolThings.com and this Flickr page. Read.
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gnawing feeling
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dumpless
Aaaaand … apparently we’re not going to get any part of the monstrous snow dump we were promised this morning when the goobers on NPR told me at least six times we could expect six to twelve inches by nightfall. Well, it’s nightfall. We got nothing. It’s not that I was hoping for maybe another… Read.
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Ahhh
Ah, Saturday morning: When I can wake up at a reasonable hour, when I can lay in bed for a while after I wake up, when I can sit on the sofa with my morning coffee until I decide I’m ready to start the day. And even then, “start the day” means take a long,… Read.
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AARP wannabe
AARP sends me an invitation to join their club about once a month and, to show they really mean it, they enclose a thick, plastic – but fake – AARP membership card. Some day I’ll stop shredding these things, but today, it’s confetti. I think because I’m officially retired from the Air Force, the Aid… Read.
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