Category: daily drivel
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toot
What I learned in yoga class most recently: That if I concentrate, utilize breath control and engage my core muscles, I can keep myself from farting no matter how much gas is trying to poot out of my behind. And it was trying so very hard. As soon as I lifted my butt into the… Read.
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looks great but
It’s been ten years since Battlestar Galactica was rebooted by the SyFy Network. Everybody else’s take: Greatest Television Show Ever Broadcast. My take, staying in the five-word format: Looks great, stupid as hell. Looks great: Really great, if you get off on space ships, and who doesn’t? Stupid people, that’s who. And also, killer robots!… Read.
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gaseous
Might as well get this out of the way: Gas was $1.91 a gallon yesterday. First time since I can’t remember when that I was able to fill up the tank on the O-Mobile for less than thirty dollars. THANK YOU, OBAMA! Because I learned during the last election cycle that high gasoline prices were… Read.
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favorites
Best Songs Of The Seventies, Part One (because I’m pretty sure I’m going to think of lots more for a Part Two right after I hit the “post” button) Bee Gees: crickets. These guys dominated the seventies and eighties. I’ve never been able to figure out why. No one’s ever explained it to me in… Read.
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middle
Yesterday, for what I’m pretty sure was the first time ever at the office where I work now, someone stepped up to the middle urinal while I was at the right urinal and someone else was at the left urinal. I’m almost one-hundred percent positive that’s never happened there before. At least, not that I’ve… Read.
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crush
…if one wanted to crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead Read.
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ringing in the new year
We managed to stay up past midnight and see in the new year, not because we found reserves of stamina we didn’t know we had but because we’d been up until eleven-thirty watching Casablanca with some friends. The drive home ended in our garage at exactly one minute past midnight, so that’s how we were… Read.
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shiftwork
I don’t think My Darling B will be getting up any earlier than she has to this morning. Her alarm is usually set for something like five-fifty, and on occasion she will get up ten or twenty minutes earlier just to enjoy my sparkling company and a hot cuppa joe, but sometimes she will hit… Read.
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locked out
While waiting for the water to boil for coffee this morning, I flipped open my tablet to see what was going on in the world of Twitter. And nothing. Nothing was going on. Twitter was down for maintenance. Never saw that before. But no worries. I went back to brewing the morning joe and didn’t… Read.
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out
I woke up at some time after three o’clock in the morning yesterday. I’ll never know exactly when because it felt like I laid there for about one million years, hoping that I would fall asleep again, before I finally accepted that I wasn’t going to, grabbed my tablet and a book, and shuffled out… Read.
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