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Category: daily drivel

  • sunken plans

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    We got rain today. I woke to the sound of great big sheets of rain drumming down on the roof of the house early this morning, and although the clouds are done dumping heavy rain on us, there’s still a steady fall of light rain this morning, so my plans to take my kayak out… Read.

  • another song bites the dust

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    I’m going to ruin another pop song, buckle up! The song is Aimie by Pure Prairie League, and before I get started I want to say that I’ve always loved this song, and I mean always, from the very first time I can remember hearing it. I sang along every time it came on the… Read.

  • coffee break

    In my dream last night, I was riding to work in the company of science fiction author John Scalzi, who asked if we could pull over at a local coffee shop to pick up a cuppa joe to go, which surprised me because he’s a well-known drinker of Coke Zero. I’m under the impression he… Read.

  • on the road again

    Not sure what to write about tonight. Went on a road trip that took all day, because it was two hundred nineteen and a half miles of windshield time: ninety-six and a half miles from Madison to Tomah, forty-four miles from Tomah to Adams, and seventy-nine miles from Adams back to Madison. There’s just no… Read.

  • old dog

    An old dog learning new tricks: When I rake the cat boxes, I start by pushing all the kitty litter to one end. I used to use the litter box rake, which is made so the litter sifts through it. Not the best tool to push the litter around, but I never thought about it… Read.

  • crooked

    I had to back the car out of the garage this morning after My Darling B parked it last night. Took me a minute to figure out how to do it. It was just about sideways to the door. Okay, not exactly sideways, but it beats me how she got it in there at the… Read.

  • pranged

    A very tender spot over my left eyebrow is keeping me from rubbing my eyes, which are always very dry about this time of the morning. Kids, pay attention: One of the warning signs of old age, like hair growing long enough to dangle from your nose like the legs of a dead fly, is… Read.

  • schooled

    Roomba roomba roomba Roomba roomba roomba Wow how whirr haff way they ah Wow how live in ah nah pray ah I got schooled last night by my youngest son, born in 1990, regarding a 70s pop song. It’s been stuck in my head ever since. It was, if you didn’t recognize the lyrics, Bon… Read.

  • on the road again

    I took another business trip to the farthest regions of northern Wisconsin this week. This time I ended up staying overnight in a hotel in Hudson, which is all the way to Eau Claire and then some. Hudson has a prettified downtown area where they kept most of the old buildings and rehabbed them for… Read.

  • whether or not 2

    People don’t really believe the world is flat, do they? I know there are lots of people with narrow minds and stupid opinions, but the people who claim that the world is flat, they’re only trolling the rest of us, right? It’s just not possible that they could be serious. Read.

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