Category: daily drivel
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brain bugs
So how come brain-eating amoebas aren’t killing everybody? A little background: My Darling B uses a neti pot to irrigate her sinuses when they become clogged because of her allergies. A neti pot looks like a doll’s teapot. She fills it with warm water, sticks the spout in one of her nostrils, tips her head… Read.
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pocket change
The guy ahead of me in line at the grocery store paid for his sandwich and coffee with the pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters he dug out of his pocket one at a time. It was even more excruciating than it sounds, for the cashier and for the people in line behind him. Read.
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fridge angst
Listening to the radio as I drove to the coffee shop in the morning, I heard an advertisement that began something like this: “It can be so easy to forget to change your refrigerator filter.” My ears pricked up, because I didn’t realize refrigerators might have filters. What would the filter be filtering? “Just text… Read.
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in search of a hard cover book
After finishing the second volume of Connie Willis’s time-travel epic, “All Clear,” I felt a driving need to re-read another Willis novel, “To Say Nothing Of The Dog.” I checked a copy out of our local library when I read it for the first time many years ago, so I paused as I was reading… Read.
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mucho coffee
Scored a bit of coffee cake and a hot cuppa at Crema Cafe this morning, because I needed coffee cake. Needed it. There is sustenance in coffee cake that I cannot go without, and it must be unlocked through the catalytic chemistry of coffee, or something like that. You correct it so it sounds right;… Read.
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Coffee drinking confirmed
I asked my coworker Romona yesterday if she drank coffee. I suspected he was not a coffee drinker. I never see her drinking coffee at work. She occasionally goes down to the vending machines with Sarah, another one of my coworkers, to get a soft drink. She eats a lot of fruits & veggies, sometimes… Read.
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time travel paradox
I’m currently re-reading the delightful Connie Willis time travel novels “Blackout” and “All Clear.” The books are two parts of one story inhabited by a cast of characters so large, I had to keep track of them by writing their names on a bookmark with lots of arrows connecting them, because many of the characters… Read.
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hot and cold
I texted this message to My Darling B last weekend, while I was out riding my bike: “OMG IT IS HOTTER THAN A BURNING HOT THING OUT HERE” She was not sympathetic. “It’s only 80 degrees. That’s not hot.” “OH IT IS TOO HOT YOU BIG FIBBER” I answered. I don’t usually text in all… Read.
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you know I know
Piers Morgan: What is the incentive for America to do a great deal with the United Kingdom? Trump: We would make a great deal with the United Kingdom because they have product that we like. I mean, they have a lot of great product. They make phenomenal things, you know, and you have different names.… Read.
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missing something
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I’m not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has… Read.
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