Category: daily drivel
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slow snowfall
From my keyboard in front of the window here at Drivel HQ, I can see it’s snowing at the lazy rate of about 6 snowflakes per second. At this rate, it will take ten thousand years for us to have a white Christmas. (That’s a wild-ass guess. I did not do the math.) Read.
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suck up
Mike Pence is a colossal suck-up. But don’t take my word for it: Here he is, in his own words, sucking up like the suckingest thing that ever sucked: Trump: Mike, would you like to say a few words? Pence: I appreciate it, Mr. President. As I told you last night, shortly after the Senate… Read.
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sparky
When you can’t think of anything to write, post a photo of a cute kitten: Read.
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feeder of cats
I can’t walk into the kitchen without two cats following me. Three when Boo is hungry (not so much these days). The other two are always hungry, or at least they’re always interested. If I stop in front of the kitchen cupboard where we keep the kitty kibble (now that’s a lot of alliteration!), they… Read.
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hawking
I woke myself up from my dream last night by spitting on myself. First time that’s ever happened. In my dream, I’d dropped a drinking glass while I was standing in line on the sidewalk outside a movie theater. I picked up the biggest pieces and threw them in a trash can some distance away,… Read.
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persiflage
PERSIFLAGE (PER suh flazh) from the French persifler, “to banter” Light banter; idle, bantering talk; a frivolous style of treating a subject – The New Century Dictionary 1927 A light, flippant style – Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary 1942 852. RIDICULE, derision, irrision, raillery, mockery, banter, persiflage, bandinage, twit, chaff; quiz, quizzing etc. v.:… Read.
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much worse
I’ve got to stop reading Twitter first thing in the morning. One of the first things I saw when I flipped through the stream of comments this morning was a phrase in Russian: “Everything’s much worse than it was yesterday.” My first response to seeing this was a self-satisfied frisson of joy: “Hey! I understood… Read.
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fiat lux
The lights are on once again in the kitchen of Our Humble O’Bode. About two weeks ago, I started a weekend project to install track lighting in the kitchen, a project that never got any farther than taking the old light off the ceiling and pulling the wires out of the junction box. That’s when… Read.
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tube
This was kind of weird: I dreamed I found Paula Poundstone stuck in a paper tube, the kind paper towels are rolled up on. The tube was shoved into the middle of a box full of packing peanuts, and I had to pull a handful of wadded-up plastic wrapping out of the end of the… Read.
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extermination
Flashback to December 15, 2005, when I answered the phone in the Credit Services department of the now-defunct AnchorBank in downtown Madison: I get a lot of strange requests, but none stranger than the one I got today. “How do I remove a child from the screen?” a caller asked me. No hi, how are… Read.
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