Category: daily drivel
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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