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It is Friday
This is the last day of my vacation. I took a week now because next week is Thanksgiving and time begins gathering speed once the tryptophan is out of the system, rolling inevitably toward Christmas and the new year, and frankly I need a break ( Read more... ) -
transition through dreams
Dad died just over two weeks ago, on September 10th. It has been a slow process, coming out of the shock and into the place where mourning is. His death was...not surprising, but definitely unexpected, and very fast. And, while this is probably the way he'd have preferred to go--no lingering in a hospital, racking up bills and expenses, no descent ( Read more... ) -
everybody's talkin' at me, can't hear a word they're sayin'
So, I went trolling the interwebs, looking for the promised text of Mr. Obama's speech to school kids.
As inspiring speeches, go, I was not so inspired. As controversial topics go, I was not so controversied. In failing to be whelmed, in either the over- or the under- direction, I also fail to understand the hotness of the topic.
Hi, Leader of the ( Read more... ) -
little bit dusty in here
Oops. It's been a while since a post showed its tiny head in this space. You know how it is when things are happening, and thoughts are thinking, and life is a breathing machine hooked up to a perpetual motion generator ( Read more... ) -
Sunshine and Albuterol
So, it's spring and that means it must be pleurisy. Again.
I saw the doctor on Tuesday and he agreed that some of the pain sounds pleuritic and some of it sounds muscular. There comes a point when it all blends and I just can't tell the inside from the outside pain. That would be why I bit the bullet and found me a local doctor to talk to after ( Read more... ) -
babbling on a sick day
Facebook with its addictive word game rooms has sucked up my online attention. I haven't been finishing my coursework either, for the course my employer is paying for me to take, for which they will pay for me to take the exam, and will also probably pay for the two weeks of review in two years to prepare for the exam, as well as the continuing ( Read more... ) -
Sunday mornings with Mom
Mom: I saw a pair of eagles yesterday.
Me: Oh?
Mom: I couldn't help but wonder, how would an uptight eagle fly?
[moments of pondering]
Me: Like a crow. -
scatterings
- I have half a micro dragon story sitting in my journal asking when we might play a little more. But dragons, they have the fire snouts, and words are thorns and thistles when I'm trying to write them, so, hush micro dragon story.
- Several areas of the state hit personal temperature records for the day. In these parts, it was over 80 degrees and ( Read more... ) -
Saturday commentary, sans observation
1. Sometimes the toilet needs a second flush. Or a third ( Read more... ) -
Hollow victory? Hollow like chocolate bunnies!
From the first call to the time I decided an army was worth collecting in my campaign to get a program working again, there elapsed five (5) hours. I gave them every chance possible to fix the not-working program, to remember that there were people who needed the not-working program in order to do their job, a rather important, sort of kind of ( Read more... )