Written for a game ( Read more... )

A request from a title, a request to myself, a request that the powers that sometimes grant sentences that work that flow, that sing, that dip under bridges and light dark hallways, a prayer that those powers deal me a syllable or two ( Read more... )

My wife stood, her face turned up, in a gully slightly below me in a glade of maples and pine. The sun had just come out of the clouds and the recent mist and rain had left the ravine lush and green. Light dappled the underbrush. The dog stood beside her, protectively shadowing her, panting, with a grin almost as wide as my wife's. A dozen ( Read more... )

Just for fun I ran a mortgage calculator on the following two scenarios ( Read more... )

Foregone Conclusion

You knew what I was going to say.
I knew what you were going to say.
Still, we said it.

On Tuesday of last week I had an operation. Things seemed to be healing fairly well. After two or three days of significant pain that was completely manageable by Tylenol 3, the pain started to recede. I could get up, walk around and I even went for a couple of walks outside with the dog. It looked like I would be able to return to work as ( Read more... )

This is a bad chemical according to Hope that you would not want to use in laundry. As opposed to the mild and lovely esters of OXY-clean.

Hey peoples. And here is the story of the slicing and dicing of Caliban's balls ( Read more... )

It is Saturday night. On Tuesday I go in for surgery. I went to dinner at my sister's yesterday. My dad stopped by. Both are physicians, my father a surgeon and my sister, a family doctor in training. Both mentioned that this particular procedure is not all that invasive ( Read more... )

Meme. Good, evil, doesn't matter, everyone gets squished in the middle.

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