Category: daily drivel
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the moves
I got to move to a different desk on Friday morning. Jim retired the middle of last month, and a couple days after he announced it, I asked Susan if anyone else had called dibs on his desk. Jim worked in a smaller cubicle but it had a raised desk top that he could work… Read.
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Stabbed
N-cat stabbed me in the face when I picked him up off the table Thursday morning. More specifically, he stabbed me in the base of the nose. Score one for him, but no bonus points. It’s a big target. The little bastard’s got claws that are sharp as needles. He tagged me pretty good, too,… Read.
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Sleepless once again
I have this vague memory of sleeping until five o’clock in the morning. I know it happens every once in a great while. I think it may have happened as recently as last week, or maybe it was two weeks ago, but for the life of me I just can’t remember what it was like.… Read.
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Shiny
High speed Internet has finally come to our little red house. We had been making do with DSL over the phone line, which the tech had to tear out with hammer and tongs before replacing it with sleek, modern CAT 4 cable. AT&T don’t even use telephone line any more. If you want a land… Read.
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burnt matches
We called MG&E on Saturday because we came home from the store and smelled burnt matches. “That’s not gas, though, right?” I asked them. “It’s supposed to smell like rotten eggs, isn’t it?” They said yes, but just to be safe they sent a technician who used a hand-held gadget to sniff for gas around… Read.
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wore out
I’m pretty damned tired after the first full weekend of physical labor that I’ve done since last fall (or maybe even last summer). Five to six months of doing nothing but sitting on my butt all day in an office, then going home and laying on my back all night have reduced me to a… Read.
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cat butt
I had to get myself a clean cup for my coffee after N-Cat sat on the first one when he climbed up onto the table next to the recliner to say hi to me this morning. He’s especially good at putting his butt on things that nobody’s butt should be on, like, for instance, my… Read.
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Prince
Among the other things I learned yesterday: Turns out B was a Prince fan. Not a huge one. Didn’t have all his albums, but liked his music enough to listen to call up a few of his songs on teh intarwebs after I told her the news that he had been found dead, which was… Read.
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satisfied
A guy from ChemLawn came knocking at our door yesterday. I was eating lunch in the recliner, which is just three feet from the front door. The door was open, so the guy could see me in the recliner with my lunch. He didn’t go away. I got up with my plate in my hand,… Read.
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Curious Cat
The New Cat is curious about everything. EVERYthing. No matter where I go in the house, no matter what I’m doing, interesting or not, New Cat has to follow me there and get his face right into whatever I’m trying to focus on. And I mean this quite literally. When I went to the bathroom… Read.
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