Category: daily drivel
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Bonkers update
Bonkers is eating again. From Wednesday morning until Sunday night he wasn’t, not a good situation for him to be in when whatever medical condition he’s been afflicted with has already caused him to waste away to skin and bones. On Monday morning he was finally hungry enough to eat a few bites, but I… Read.
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Drive By Night
We were up wayyy past our bedtime Saturday night. In fact, it was almost past our bedtime when we left the house. But it was a special occasion: One of our friends is in a band and was playing a gig at a tavern not far from McFarland called Tricia’s Country Crossroads, the kind of… Read.
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footprint
“We have been given eyes to see what the lightyear worlds cannot see of themselves,” Ray Bradbury wrote. “We have been given hands to touch the miraculous. We’ve been given hearts to know the incredible. Can we shrink back to bed in our funeral clothes?” Read.
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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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