Category: daily drivel
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chilled
B yanked the blankets clean off me in my sleep this morning. I thought that only happened in black and white movies about old married couples, or cheesy sitcoms from the 70s. I guess I’m living in one now. I tried to yank them back, but she was laying on them or something. I got… Read.
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passive aggressive
Mister Passive-Aggressive got me out of bed this morning. Now I’m keeping him out of his. On a weekend, every hour I get to sleep past five o’clock, the hour my alarm clock normally wakes me during the work week, is precious. Yesterday, I got to sleep in until eight o’clock, very late for me.… Read.
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snookered
I got suckered by the oldest trick in the book. I have an IBM Selectric typewriter that I bought at a Goodwill store for three bucks. The Selectric was the Cadillac of typewriters back in the day; every office with the money to pay for quality typewriters had Selectrics. When I found mine at Goodwill,… Read.
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broken
The doorbell rang at three-thirty this morning. Coincidentally, I was lying half-awake in bed trying to motivate myself to get out of bed and clean up the cat yak that I was pretty sure I just heard Boo leave on the floor right next to me. Half of me wanted to leave it until morning;… Read.
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Pervert
The president says it would be better if Alabama elected a pervert to the Senate. I don’t know why I try to remain sober any more. Read.
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Croaked
Charles Manson croaked it today and National Public radio, my go-to source for what is usually pretty good journalism, spent what seemed like forever explaining the significance of his passing. Come on, NPR. Is there anyone anywhere in America who doesn’t know why Charles Manson has been in prison since the dawn of time? And… Read.
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fences
I like my neighborhood quite a lot. It’s quiet, the people are nice, and there were no privacy fences around any of the yards when I moved in. That’s been changing, though, as the old, original owners of the houses have moved out and younger families with kids have been moving in. I’m not sure… Read.
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frightful
The weather outside is frightful. Snow is falling and sticking to the ground for the first time this season, and that’s what I consider to be the official sign that winter has begun. You can measure it on the calendar or by the stars if you want, but it doesn’t mean a thing until the… Read.
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toaster
When I took apart the clothes drier yesterday, I was impressed by how simply built it is. There are maybe a dozen moving parts in the whole machine. The biggest one, of course, is the drum you put the clothes in. It’s connected to a motor by a big, loopy rubber belt that turns it… Read.
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Fritz
Our clothes drier went on the fritz. It spun and spun and it blew a lot of air through the part where the clothes tumbled around, but it didn’t get hot any more so the clothes took hours and hours to dry. I asked teh Google why this might be. The thermostat or the heating… Read.
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