Category: daily drivel
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exploding cat
I see I haven’t told the story of the exploding cat yet. I think I’ll tell it now. Don’t worry, he didn’t literally explode. He only made a noise like an explosion, and then only with the help of a big plastic bottle. But I’m getting ahead of myself. We have a problem with mice.… Read.
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Shopping
We went shopping today, My Darling B and I, the one activity that neither B not I would ever voluntarily do, given the choice, but everything in my wardrobe is at least ten years old (even … no, especially my underwear) and we are planning a special vacation for which we’ll need warm-weather clothes, so… Read.
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lame lame lame
My dreams last night were so lame that I bored myself awake. I don’t remember now what they were about, only that when I woke up I thought, That was a really stupid dream. I really don’t want to have that dream any more. When I’d start to drift off to sleep and back into… Read.
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dam it
I finally motivated myself to finish shoveling the driveway last night, or rather the snow dam at the end of the driveway that the car bottomed out on when we went over it motivated me. It was rather thrilling to get a running start and fishtail through the deepest stuff but when the thought crossed… Read.
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ice covered and slippery
And the winter weather has finally kicked in. Not sure why it took this long, but we’ve been under a winter storm watch all day and will be until tomorrow morning. Snow started to fall soon after we got to work. Temps plummeted. Snow, sleet and rain took turns dumping on most of the state… Read.
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scout maybe
We adopted a cat from the Dane County Humane Society. It didn’t take us long to find one. We started looking on Sunday by visiting a pet store that served as a satellite location for the Friends of Ferals. We saw two cats there, then went to the Humane Society and saw two cats there.… Read.
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bill the bigot
From a “share if you agree” Facebook rant: “Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted. “Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table.” I wonder if I could suggest a slight revision:… Read.
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zuzu’s petals
We took the afternoon off from work yesterday, went to Porto Alba to have some Neopolitan pizza for lunch, then saw “It’s A Wonderful Life” on the big screen at the Sundance Cinema with an audience of maybe a dozen people who applauded after the final scene. B and I got all tearey-eyed instead of… Read.
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hat or snake
After yoga on Friday night, we drove up Willy Street to the Roman Candle pizzeria to feast upon a sixteen-inch pie made with pepperoni, sausage, bacon and onions. B was hungry and wanted something that would really stick to her ribs. The young lady who waited on us had dozens of small tattooed figures on… Read.
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foot-ugly
I was sitting cross-legged at yoga class last night, the only time I ever see my naked feet up close and personal, which is why I noticed that they were ugly, which lead to my next random thought: Foot-ugly should be a way of describing things. There’s butt-ugly, so why not foot-ugly? You may point… Read.
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