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Filled another journal volume
Yet another Midori MD A5 blank notebook filled, sealed back into it's resealable waterproof envelope, and filed away into the drawer of filled journal volumes. I'll finish filling this paperblank that I have bridged to in the next couple of weeks, and then start on the first of the brand new shipment of Midori MDs A5 dotgrid ( Read more... ) -
It looks like the PitneyBowes mafia has leaned on PayPal
Just over a year ago, I posted about [ https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-nowRead more... ) -
Witnessing Road Rage
I just got to watch a roadrage incident.
In the very heavy traffic leaving the Lake Union fireworks show, there was a large Infiniti SUV in front of us who wasn't zipper merging properly. He cut off a smaller car who's turn it was to merge, and then the driver of the SUV got out, yelled at the driver's window of the smaller car, and then got back ( Read more... ) -
A fountain of toxic woke
While watching the fireworks over Lake Union while the song "I'm Already There - Message From Home" was playing on the PA, I could really have done without the sneering narration to her friends from the women standing about 10 feet from me ( Read more... ) -
I own an antique twelve inch square hinged blade paper cutter
I own an antique twelve inch square hinged blade paper cutter. I bought it out of a junk pile that was dredged out of the back of some craftschool place that was shutting down. I think I paid two dollars for it ( Read more... ) -
teethclenchingly painful writing
I have the "follow your politicians" feature turned on on Facebook. The main thing I've learned from reading "my" politician's social media writings is that it always has the same style of smarmy barflgab of marketing spam copy of 10 years ago (current-year marketing bullshit copy tends to be much clearer and punchy, and is less mindbreakingly ( Read more... ) -
Everyone knew, nobody actually cared
Everyone *knew*. For decades. But anyone who could have stopped him, none of them actually cared.
Most of the celebrities, performers, industry executives, and politicians who are today saying "finally", they are merely grandstanding. They didn't care then, and they don't actually care now.
The people who did his accounting, his paperwork, his ( Read more... ) -
Groundhog's Day.
Groundhog's Day.
It's been a long strange and unexpected 10 years.
The crocuses are coming up, and the daffodils bloom soon. This entry was originally posted at https://fallenpegasus.dreamwidth.org/862883.html. Please comment there using OpenID. -
Mark's Stories: "Food just comes up out of the ground"
There is a story in my family, about one of my aunts, now passed away. She grew up in in a big east coast city, and then during the Depression era she met this nice Mormon boy, and moved with him into the far beyond of deep rural southern Colorado. And then wrote back to her family in the big city, who were concerned for her welfare. Her letter ( Read more... ) -
Mark Stories: believed in Santa Claus
At a tech job I had many years ago, the mailroom and to-desk mail delivery was done by a teenage girl who suffered from some intellectual disabilities of types I never felt the need to ask about. She had the mind and the attitude of a young child, she was always happy to say hello while dropping off and picking up packages and envelopes from ( Read more... )