Category: daily drivel
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shuss
Some people can strap on a pair of skis and learn to shuss down a hill with only a few minor spills that everybody can sit around and joke about later. Tim’s one of those people. He got on a snowboard and was shooting down the steeper slopes by mid-afternoon. My Darling B, I suspect,… Read.
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ramen
Spent the morning shoring up shelving in a storage shed the Air Force built onto our quarters. The shed is five feet square and about ten feet high, with bare, poured concrete walls up the sides, no shelves, and no way to attach any. How useful is that? It wasn’t hard to fix up, but… Read.
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visitor
I spent a few hours in the kitchen this afternoon, studying for promotion, glancing over my shoulder out the patio door every so often. We have a visitor. Sometimes the boys drop cereal when they take the trash out to the cans on the patio, and a small black-and-white bird, at little larger than a… Read.
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outfitted
The whole family trooped down to outdoor rec to get fitted for ski gear. Lots of fun watching the kids clomp around in ski boots. We’re supposed to go skiing next weekend, so we thought we’d better get off our lazy duffs and get ready for it. B bought a set of ski clothes already;… Read.
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they don’t take plastic
Not that I think I’m Alan Greenspan or anything, but I may have a good idea why the Japanese economy is in such piss-poor shape: They’ve got, like, no clue when it comes to using credit cards. It began to dawn on me the first time I went looking for an ATM. I couldn’t do… Read.
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buy books
To celebrate Christmas this year, I hung the mid watch from the night before, if you can call staying awake an hour or so longer than usual “hanging the mid.” Most people call that “wussing out,” though. I came through the front door at about seven in the morning to find Barb and Sean still… Read.
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headlights
The headlights on the car stopped working. When I drove to work in the evening, the car was working normally. Can’t have that, especially on Christmas Eve, the start of a holiday season that closes every service for a week. When I drove out of the parking lot to drive home that night, the low… Read.
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seven
This morning I opened the curtains and found myself looking at seven and a half inches of new snow under a clear, sunny sky and temps well below freezing. I spent a half hour or so digging the walks and the car out of the snow; there were cars in the street that needed an… Read.
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jumble
Washed up after PT, then took B to the post office so she could put in her hours for the volunteer service she does there. She says the post office is feeling the big crush now, getting truckloads of packages many times a day. When I picked her up in the afternoon, they’d just received… Read.
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Miyaki’s
Took one last trip with B to the mall at Shimoda to see if we needed any last-minute Christmas gifts; turned out I did pick up one or two things, and so did Barb. We started with a noodle lunch at a fast-food place; wasn’t too bad, but didn’t hold a candle to a steaming… Read.
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