Category: daily drivel
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plop
We stopped at the Jenifer Street Market on the way home to pick up some of their freshly-made guacamole and a bag of chips for an appetizer before dinner. We also swung by their beer cave because, duh, beer. Also, it’s the best beer cave on the east side of town. Hard to pass that… Read.
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quitter
I quit caffeine cold turkey last week Thursday. If I’ve had any since then, it was in something I didn’t know about. I’ve had one, maybe two cups of decaf coffee and nothing but green tea and peppermint tea since then. And beer. I guess I thought I didn’t need to say that, like I… Read.
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attack
I don’t know about you, but when I hear a bump in the night, my heart starts to pound because I know there’s an axe murderer in the house and he’s tiptoeing through the living room ever so slowly even though his bumping into something gave himself away. Axe murderers are so committed to slowly… Read.
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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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