Category: daily drivel
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remonstrate
It’s snowing. It had to happen, and now here it is. Winter is here. We are in winter. Yay. And it’s cold. Luckily for us, it’s not sub-zero cold the way it is in some places. We’ll get that soon enough. For right now, though, twenty-five degrees is plenty cold. Even when we’re all bundled… Read.
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adventures in brunch
Note to self: Merchant does not open at nine o’clock Saturday morning for brunch, as I thought because that’s what they advertised on their web site. We found a somewhat cryptic explanation for this on their front door where, etched in the glass under the Saturday hours, it says they open for brunch at nine… Read.
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re-enlistment time
“Let It Snow” was playing on the public address system at Menard’s while I was trying to find the right fitting for a two-inch PVC pipe, reminding me that it’s time for me to see a recruiter about re-enlisting in the War on Christmas. Read.
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in a clutch
“Frank, do you ever stop to consider why it is we do the things that we do?” Frank, whose face at the moment that Ernie posed the question was wrapped in the flaming tentacles of an unnamable beast, did not reply, so Ernie returned to the task of hacking their way out of its clutches… Read.
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toodles
I made an important discovery last night as I put my hands under the kitchen faucet to wash them: When the water touched my skin, a thin whisp of steam came wafting up from the webbing between my fingers. “What’s so important about that?” My Darling B asked, when I showed her. “Just watch this,”… Read.
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thanks
Please don’t thank me for my service. It’s a lovely sentiment and I appreciate it, but please. I am a veteran of twenty-one years in the Air Force, but I didn’t do anything more valiant than go to work every day and get a job done, same as everybody else who works for a living.… Read.
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facepalm
I’ve been reading a lot of books about the war in the Pacific. I don’t know why it fascinates me, it just does. Maybe it’s a guy thing, all those big ships and airplanes and bombs and torpedoes. Whatever the reason, it’s dominated my reading for the past three or four months. I even read… Read.
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witness for the boredom
Ugh, I’ve been up half the night because of a recurring dream in which I’m interviewing witnesses for a court case, which wouldn’t be so bad if it was an interesting case, but it was about something so boring and stupid that I don’t even remember what it was. Every time I woke up I… Read.
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Here’s my idea for trying to stop politicians from spending billions of dollars on campaigns: The maximum that any one person can contribute to any political campaign in any way is one dollar. It’s an amount that virtually everybody can afford, so anyone’s contribution carries just as much weight as anybody else’s. Not that I… Read.
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voted
I voted, not that I think it made any difference. Mostly I voted because I knew I would feel guilty about not voting, so I went. But I didn’t vote my conscience. Next time, I’m going to vote for the guy who promises to legalize pot, and to hell with the politicians who do the… Read.
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