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Well on my way to Crazy Cat Lady
I know I've been missing from these pages for a loooong time; my employer, in its infinite wisdom, has blocked access, so I don't have the chance to check in from work anymore, and by the time I get home these days, I hardly have the energy to veg out in front of Law and Order reruns. I'm firmly behind my doors today, though, with the air ( Read more... ) -
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All dogs go to Heaven ( Read more... ) -
Paralyzed!
When I left work yesterday, it was precipitating. I think it was only raining, but I park my car underground below the building where I work, so I don't know for sure. At any rate, I don't cross any bridges between work and home (except a very small stone one that doesn't seem to freeze up much) and the roads -- even the dark, narrow, twisty one ( Read more... ) -
Byram's right
Beth Patterson is a goddess. Her rendition of Gimme That Old Time Religion was priceless; I thought I was going to split something. And man, can she play that bouzouki or what?
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It might as well be Friday
Tomorrow, at long last, I have an actual appointment with a dermatologist. This is a Good Thing. What I really need is new skin . . . In any event, I'm thinking I may just go home afterwards and not bother coming into the office at all, since I'd only have to leave early to make it to the Beth Patterson concert! And Friday is my day off. I'd rather ( Read more... ) -
The theory of relativity
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An interesting experience
It was a two-part interview, each part with two people. (Apparently, in the past there were complaints that a 4-on-1 was too intimidating.) I have been here longer than any of the four people who interviewed me. After they asked me bunches of prepared questions, to which I mostly knew the answers, I had to write an essay. At least my penmanship is ( Read more... ) -
Nervous wreck for no reason
As I have said here before, I have only about three years left before I am eligible to retire from the service of the Federal Government. Almost as a lark, I applied for a promotion a few weeks ago, with very little expectation that anything would come of it; the rules for my job series have changed, and I am not eligible for a grade higher than I ( Read more... ) -
On being peanut butter
Decades ago, there was a letter in a Dear Abby column from a woman who was concerned about her father. She reported that her father had eaten two peanut butter sandwiches for lunch every day for many, many years. He was now nearly 90 and beginning to go senile. She asked Abby whether there was any degree of probability that the peanut butter had ( Read more... ) -
How I spent my sick day
When I woke up yesterday, I had the grandmother of all non-migraine headaches, with aspirations of growing up to be a full-fledged migraine. (I don't get them very often, praise God, but I do get hit two or three times a year.) I called in sick and went back to bed. When I woke up again a few hours later, the headache was manageable -- a low simmer ( Read more... )