Category: hobby
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lair
Can you find Bonkers the Cat in this photo of my basement lair? I bought a new camera a few weeks ago because I lost my old camera. Just lost it. I was taking photos while I was brewing beer or hammering on some wood or something, so between photos I put it somewhere very… Read.
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1ribbon
I finally got a typewriter ribbon for the most recently-acquired typewriter in my collection. Did you know you can still get typewriter ribbons from Staples? You can, but only one at a time. That’s all I ever find on display at the Staples down the road. Just one. They must have a great big box… Read.
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measurable laziness
A list of things I should get done this weekend: mow the back lawn pick up all the crap laying around in the back yard (should probably do that before I mow) clean up all the crap that’s accumulated on the deck mulch the branches I’ve pruned off bushes over the summer and piled in… Read.
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winnings
Next time I win the Power Ball lottery (you didn’t know I’d won it before?), I’m going to use my winnings to rent a storefront in town. I’m going to hang a big sign over the door that says “Typewriter Repair Shop” in Courier Bold and set all my typewriters in the window. In the… Read.
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epic journey!
I don’t know if you realize this, but a historic journey of heroic proportions was completed yesterday. I’m talking, of course, about the bike ride My Darling B took with me all the way around Lake Monona. This 12-mile trip is probably longer than she’s ever traveled on her bike in one day. I knew… Read.
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Brooklyn Breakfast
Rode my bike to work yesterday. The weather was flawless and perfect in every way, so I had to ride my bike. I would’ve hated myself all day if I hadn’t. Rode it to work again today. The weather tricked me this time. It was nice this morning, but on the way home I was… Read.
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wink at the moon
I have a strange confession for a space geek to make: I have only the sketchiest idea where I was, and no memory of what I was doing, when Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. I’m pretty sure I was in Marquette, Michigan when it happened, but I have no memory of… Read.
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Neil Armstrong 1930-2012
I’m not one to worship heroes, and I have my doubts that Neil Armstrong was ever one to consider himself a hero, but dammit, he was. He really was. So long, Neil, and thanks for daring to do great things. Read.
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mojave?
Mars looks a lot like the Mojave Desert. That’ll thrill the hoaxers. Read.
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up and at em
I crawled into bed at about one-thirty this morning after staying up half the night to watch NASA land a robot on Mars. “Did your thing happen?” My Darling B asked dreamily, as I settled into a comfortable spot. “Yes, my thing happened,” I told her. Space geekery is “my thing.” Then tried to fall… Read.
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