Category: play

• measly 20 bucks

  October 12, 2011

  coffee, daily drivel, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, story time

  I bought a coffee pot from a guy on e-bay. Well, no, wait. If I say I’ve bought a coffee pot, you might assume I gave the guy money and he sent me a coffee pot. You might even assume I now possess a coffee pot. I do not and, as far as I know,… Read.

• faster

  October 11, 2011

  daily drivel, entertainment, music, play, radio, yet another rant

  While I was driving around all weekend I listened to more pop music on the radio that I usually do in a whole month. A whole lot more. So much that I exceeded all my quotas and won’t have to listen to pop music again for at least a year, thank goodness. I think I… Read.

• stuff

  October 10, 2011

  adventures in plumbing, bicycling, hobby, Our Humble O’Bode, painting, play

  I just finished flushing out the plumbing from the basement sink again. Thought I’d mention that and get it out of the way. The rest of this post is free of plumbing emergencies. No, really. I should have gotten my hair cut on Saturday but I didn’t because I was too busy doing other things.… Read.

• lull

  October 6, 2011

  daily drivel, food & drink, Guy Night, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  Thursday night is guy night, the night I’m in charge of putting food on the family, and while I could have taken My Darling B straight home and burned some animal flesh on the Weber, instead I suggested that we spend the evening relaxing on the patio at Mickey’s Tavern with a couple of beers… Read.

• depressor

  October 5, 2011

  hobby

  I thought this was so goddam cool that I had to share it with you. I’ve never heard of stick bombs before this, but apparently they’re nothing new. How can that be? How can I have grown up from a wee little worm, gone through Cub Scouts, ridden a bike with playing cards in the… Read.

• crossed

  October 2, 2011

  entertainment, hobby, LoCo Rwy

  The track gang has earned their keep this weekend. This was the scene this afternoon at the crossing on the low end of the Lost Continent Railway. With the last of the rails laid through the crossover, the return loop was completed at about three-thirty and the chief engineer, standing on the roof of the… Read.

• blister

  October 1, 2011

  daily drivel, entertainment, hobby, LoCo Rwy, Our Humble O’Bode

  It has been a day. Everything was fine to start with. Morning coffee with the morning news, one sucked, the other didn’t. While B got ready to go to the farmer’s market, I threw a load of dirty clothes into the wash machine and cranked it up, then went about the rest of my morning… Read.

• doink

  September 27, 2011

  daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, hobby, LoCo Rwy, Our Humble O’Bode, play, restaurants, scrub-a-dub-dub

  Sorry, not much time left over to drivel tonight. I spent a couple hours doinking around with train track on the model layout in the basement, and when I thought I couldn’t justify spending any more time on that, I went upstairs, sat my butt down in the recliner and read other people’s drivel posted… Read.

• on track

  September 19, 2011

  hobby, LoCo Rwy

  The track gang has had all summer to lie in the sun, but now that the dogs days have passed it’s time to get back to work. This crossing has been on the mind of the chief engineer all summer while he’s been at home mowing the lawn and painting window frames, even while he’s… Read.

• wakey-wakey

  September 18, 2011

  coffee, daily drivel, food & drink, play, story time

  Bleary-eyed, I staggered into Java Cat, the coffee shop at the very top of Monona Avenue, at seven-thirty this morning. I had stumbled in my duties as the maker of the coffee and allowed our home supply of beans to run out so, for my penance this morning, I rolled out of bed into a… Read.