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evening walk 3/29/2025
Tim usually comes over for dinner and a game on Saturday nights, but this Saturday Barb was not feeling well enough to receive guests. She had a bit of a tummy bug that kept her up half the night and as a consequence she spent most of Saturday curled up in bed, sleeping off the… Read.
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cleanup
This spring I’ve got a big project looming: building a cabinet for the utility closet off the dining room. It’ll be a very simple cabinet with a countertop but I’ll need all the open space in the garage that I can get to cut up the lumber and piece it together. Unfortunately, the garage became… Read.
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Lake loop 3/27/2025
First bike ride of the season! I’m very much a fair-weather bicycler, which is a highfalutin way of saying I don’t ride when temps fall low enough to make my fingers numb and my nose run like a fire hose. Today it was warm enough to tempt me into trying a ride around the neighborhood… Read.
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the tea
I left for work in kind of a hurry yesterday. I wasn’t late, but I didn’t get out the door and on the road as promptly as I like to do, so I accidentally skipped over the part where I packed a lunch. I also forgot to refill the little Tupperware I keep tea bags… Read.
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gassy
I worked from the office yesterday. Our office is like a long hallway, and my desk is at the far end of it, so I’m mostly by myself, especially these past months when the desk next to mine was vacant. Well, I got a little too used to being all by myself way down at… Read.
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wired
It was a very rainy, very wet, and unfortunately very cold day today. Unfortunate not for me — I was warm and snug inside all day — but unfortunate for the two AT&T technicians who came to connect fiber optic cable to our house. And unfortunate that it couldn’t be put off any longer. It… Read.
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bad mechanic
Is there anything worse than a car mechanic who tries to take advantage of you? It’s a rhetorical question. Of course there is. But a mechanic who tries to defraud you is a special kind of creep, is what I’m trying to say. Allow me to tell you a short story: I drove Barb’s car,… Read.
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morning walk 03/16/2025
For this morning’s walk, I didn’t want to travel very far from the Madison area because the weather was yuck, but I did want to do more than stretch my legs. I wanted to hike at least five miles, and the one place I could easily hike that far which was only a short drive… Read.
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morning walk 03/15/2025
This morning’s hike through the UW-Madison arboretum was much more enjoyable than I thought it might be. We’ve had warm weather for the past three or four days and we got a little rain last night, so I expected the trails to be nothing but muck all the way around. I was happy to discover… Read.
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The BB rattling around in my brain
This isn’t an original thought, but it runs through my head on a loop and sometimes writing these things down helps me stop thinking about them so I can sleep at night: A certain billionaire could have used his immense wealth and influence to bring clean water to everybody in the world. He could have… Read.
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