Category: daily drivel

  • begging

    Ran into a panhandler yesterday with a technique I hadn’t experienced before: shouting. It might not even have been a bad technique, if used correctly. Shouting at me triggers my fight or flight response, compelling me to either punch you in the face or get away from you as fast as I can. I have… Read.

  • hair ties

    “What are you looking for?” My Darling B asked me as I rummaged through the closet in the bathroom. “Hair ties,” I answered. She pointed at a little tin in the corner. “I put them in there. Remember? I showed you.” “I’m sure you did,” I said, “but I don’t remember.” “I showed you,” she… Read.

  • climate change

    A few random thoughts about climate change, in no particular order: I don’t “believe in” climate change. I’m not entirely sure what the phrase “believe in” means. It’s most often used in the context of “believing in” god or supernatural phenomena or something for which there is no hard evidence. Until I see some hard… Read.

  • argle barble dribble burble

    Just a few words while I’m waiting for my chance to use the bathroom. Nobody’s in there, but I need to wait until I’m ready, if you know what I mean. I’ve never been what you’d call regular. It happens when it happens, y’know? And if that’s more than you wanted to know about me… Read.

  • #thanksoppy

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    Fare thee well, Opportunity, and we thank you. Read.

  • ice quakes

    Relaxing in our front room Thursday night after a long day at work, we heard what sounded like something about the size and weight of a brick hitting the end of the house. I looked around the room: three cats, all accounted for, so it wasn’t one of them knocking a book off a shelf… Read.

  • unfrozen

    So we somehow survived the polar vortex that sent the temps in the Great Lakes region spiraling down as low as twenty-seven below zero, low enough that, with the high winds swirling around the city, frostbite could kill unprotected skin in as little as five minutes. My Darling B and I avoided that by not… Read.

  • usually blue tape

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    human trafficking a phenomena that has been going on for a thousand years or more and that you’d think ah was something modern society wouldn’t have and hate to tell you that because of the internet it’s worse than ever before human trafficking it’s a horrible thing and much of it comes it’s a world… Read.

  • frost line

    It’s three trillion degrees below zero this morning in southern Wisconsin. It’s really only seventeen degrees below zero, but after the little needle on the thermometer swings past ten below, the number is essentially meaningless as far as I’m concerned. Read.

  • boogie oogie oogie

    How many times has this happened to you: After you wish a good morning to maybe a half-dozen people in a crowded coffee shop where you stopped to pick up a steaming cuppa joe, and said hello to maybe another two or three at the news stand where you picked up a morning paper, you… Read.

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