September 2010
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The Media Hydra →
I have to start with this, because it just says everything about something. It’s a device for cutting through those annoying thick plastic packages. What, as they say, is wrong with this picture?
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Grandma’s Camera →
A warm night after a warm day. This is fall as it’s supposed to be, except for the large grade-A jumbo egg on my chin. Turns out I am slightly allergic to bee stings, because this one just got…
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OW →
Sunday we went out for brunch with some folks, daughter included; she was feeling a bit abashed as the only kid, resigned to stare at her plate and think kid thoughts in then Prison of Silence….
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The Mists →
Ah, Friday! Friday, with its tripartite boon – the nap, the pizza, the Friday night sip of fine American bourbon! The night in which care and caution are thrown to the wind, and I redesign sites…
Forever Sarcastic →
I’m sitting outside in the gazebo in the dark, in the rain. The leaky gazebo. Which is fun to say. Try it. Almost sounds like some mobster nick: Tommy “Leaky” Gazebo. It’s supposed to rain steadily…
Vitamin M →
Just so you know, I don’t think that anything below is particularly special or clever, so it’s not like I think I’m passing off dog breath as the smell of fresh bread.
New theories about the…
Moonbase is Go →
A good Monday, but I like Mondays. Back to duty. Fie to the formless meanderings of Sunday; hurrah to the brisk order of the workaday world. The most remarkable thing about the day was the weather;…
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Hygenic →
Woke up at 5:30 to one of the worst sounds for sleeping: a smoke alarm telling you its battery is dying. A smoke alarm telling that you are dying, or might, is worse, of course. But that gets you…
Aunt Jenny →
Another cool low day. I stopped checking my iPad weather app; I have disengaged from weather, from the idea of Outside. Right now I’m sitting in a room where I can’t see outside, listening to…
If only you believed →
The rain, the clouds, the dankness: October wears September’s clothing like a wolf. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear the torrents pound down, and was pleased; nothing like a storm in…
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Filing Cabinet Labels That Would Make Good Star... →
Thanks for the words on the Hamster Situation. Not to make too much of it, but you know how it is. Thanks.
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I’ve been purging and pruning my iTunes. The initial idea of having…
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Goodbye Ace →
Sorry I didn’t get the updates out – noon came and noon was loud and full of things I had to do, and then I left the house, and it was all typing and talking from then until the funeral.
As you may have noted on the Twitter feed, Ace the hamster was found dead last night. It was horrible for Natalie, just horrible. I heard the wailing from outside, and walked around the side of the house below...
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Old Stones →
I do not like to get up Saturday mornings. I believe it is a man’s right to wake late, mutter over some coffee, rub his hand over his unshaven face, and do farg-all until noon, after which is wife…
Russian Dude may have Problems →
How can the third day of a four-day week seem like the sixth day of five-day week?
But it was exactly that. Didn’t feel like Thursday at all. But I promised a Link Bonanza, and I will provide. I…
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Wrong Ain’t Got A Chance →
Potpourri today.
Child update: school is great except the younger kids on the bus are annoying. The most egregious sin: the third-graders have formed an alliance with the fourth-graders to…
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Ah, there you are →
The grind resumes. Not too much of a grind, though. It’s a good life. But the days of writing outside in the gazebo slammed to a halt with the sudden cold weather – 95 last week at this…
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One thing ends and another thing begins →
Fall came in with surly impatience, accompanied by unprepared underlings who hadn’t coordinated a thing. Rain! Sun! More rain, cool wind, hot sun, sprinkles, wind, calm – it’s like backstage at…
Okay! Big arm movements →
So. I started watching “The Dark Knight” a few nights ago. Again. Why, I don’t know; in the mood. Tonight I intended to finish it, so I turned on the Blu-Ray.
THIS DISK CANNOT BE READ
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Shortness →
Beautiful day! Warm and sunny! Best Fall Ever!
Would you be surprised to learn I went to the Fair today? I did. Again. That’s four. Two more to go. I’m not done with it yet, obviously, but I’m…
It’s Yellow →
You can’t say it’s summer when it’s September. Might as well stop with the elaborate justifications. It’s over. I almost feel better admitting it; now I can eat.
A few people have asked me how I…
