Category: daily drivel
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water pump
I went for a walk out to Picnic Point for the first time since moving to Madison. It’s sort of a Madison landmark, so I’m a little embarrassed it took me this long to finally visit it, but I don’t go to the university campus that much, so I’m going to use that as my… Read.
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shelved
Destroyed a book case today. Just trying to make room in Our Little Red House. It wasn’t a for-real book case. It was an entertainment center. We used to have these back in the seventies and eighties; no idea if they still make them now. They came in all sizes and shapes but were all,… Read.
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love grows
The song stuck in my head right now is … I’m a lucky fellah and I just gotta tell her that I love her endlessly Because love grows where my Rosemary goes and nobody knows Like meee … Anybody remember the group? Read.
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411 lives!
Yesterday I wanted to call somebody in Grayslake, Illinois, so I naturally did the first thing that sprang to mind: I googled her name and was faced with a dizzying array of web sites that were supposedly made just for the purpose of providing me with phone numbers, addresses, financial histories, maybe even the names… Read.
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counting
So no mouse this morning, or yesterday morning, or Wednesday morning. One mouse Tuesday morning, none Monday. I guess the mouse problem in the basement is not nearly as bad as I thought it was. Either that, or I caught all the dumb ones, and the smart ones have figured out how to take the… Read.
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academia
Everyone in academia , especially Brandon Smith, Kentucky state senator, agrees: Fifty-eight degrees below zero is the average daytime temperature in Kentucky: I don’t want to get into the debate about climate change, but I will simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as… Read.
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corny
Actual headline on NPR’s web page this morning: Germany gives Brazil Das Boot with 7-1 World Cup Win Oh, NPR, I can always count on you to keep it classy. Read.
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planter
There’s a planter in our front yard. One glance at it will tell you that we haven’t planted anything in it for years. It looks pretty lush, or even, what’s the word, verdant, but one look will tell you almost instinctively that a better word would be overgrown. It’s very definitely overgrown with, uh, stuff. A while… Read.
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mousey
I’m trying to find the best way to dispose of mice. We have what seems to be an entire legion of mice in our basement. I forget how many Roman centurions that is; let’s say, for the sake of argument, that it’s a hundred. I have no trouble at all believing there are a hundred… Read.
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sideways
We drove home in a blinding rainstorm last night, literally. I needed a second pair of eyes, My Darling B’s, just to keep the car between the lines as I creeped along Monona Drive. “You can pull over if you want,” B said, and that might have been the safest option, I don’t know. All I could… Read.
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