Category: daily drivel
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disaster
Here’s where I’m still a little fuzzy on the whole lead-in-the-water controversy that’s been in the news lately beause of the troubles in the city of Flint, Michigan: Whose genius idea was it to make water pipes out of lead in the first place? I’m no expert on the exact dates, but I’m pretty sure… Read.
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gasping for breath
Day Four of living without the use of my thumbs: I can’t pick my nose. Classically, nose-pickers have been depicted on stage and screen using their fingers to pick their noses, but for me, none of my fingers have the angle that I feel I need to do thorough job of picking my nose clean.… Read.
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all thumbs
Trying to get through the day without using a thumb makes me appreciate how great it is to have thumbs. Not that I’m saying this kind of introspection is worth mutilating myself for. I would’ve been just as happy if I’d read about it and thought, Golly gosh, yeah, how great is it to have… Read.
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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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