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Category: daily drivel

  • bleh bleh bleh

    I really ate way too much fried foods last night, starting with an appetizer that was so weird I had to point it out to My Darling B: deep-fried macaroni & cheese. I couldn’t even imagine what that would look like. “Let’s get some and see,” was B’s reply, so we did. They brought us… Read.

  • A Star Is Born

    My Darling B and I went to see “A Star Is Born” at a place called Flix Brewhouse, which is just what it says on the can: A movie theater that also brews beer. I have to say, I would never have thought of that combination, even though brewpubs are sprouting up everywhere and it… Read.

  • movie time

    Movie time! We watched two movies in the past two days: A Wrinkle In Time just last night, and First Man on Friday evening. After an afternoon spent at the office picnic, we were in the mood to stay in and watch something in the warmth & comfort of our living room, so I clicked… Read.

  • colonists in spaaaaaace

    I’m currently reading “The Fated Sky” (sequel to “The Calculating Stars”) by Mary Robinette Kowal and I’m really enjoying it. The characters are relateable and I love the story because it’s all about PEOPLE IN SPAAACE! If I had one gripe to make about it, just one teensy-weensy little niggle, it would be with the… Read.

  • Gabrielle Blair on unwanted pregnancies

    A Twitter thread from author Gabrielle Blair, who tweets using the handle @designmom: I’m a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding abortion, religious and otherwise. I’ve been listening to men grandstand about women’s reproductive rights, and I’m convinced men actually have zero interest in stopping abortion. Here’s… Read.

  • hairy

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    My hair’s quite long now, although when I say “quite long,” I mean it’s grown past the top of my collar in back, covers my ears, and hangs in my eyes if I don’t comb it back. That’s as long as I’ve ever worn it in my life.  I used to wear it about as… Read.

  • dead ant

    I found a cemetery of black ants in the basement this morning.  There must have been about two dozen of them, squashed and mangled, in a pile in the center of the room.  One of the cats must have been the killer, probably Sparky because he spends hours and hours down there doing who knows… Read.

  • bloodied

    I went looking for replacement blades for my electric razor week before last.  My very first razor before I switched to disposable cartridges was an electric Norelco triple-header.  My parents gave it to me for Christmas and I used it through college but gave it up sometime after I joined the Air Force.  I returned… Read.

  • love and art

    My Darling B and I traveled to Milwaukee yesterday to look at art. “To look at art” is possibly not the first thing you think of after “Travel to Milwaukee,” but they do, in fact, have a collection of art in a museum there, and it’s art by artists so well-known that even a country… Read.

  • all fall down

    The office I work in moved into a newly-constructed building last March.  Shortly after we moved, I took this photo of the view out the window over my desk: That was on March 13, 2018, in the early morning hours. I was so pleased to finally have a window. My first paid job was developing… Read.

photo of the author and the author's best friend