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My Life, Take II

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It is the simplest things, the ones others might see as insignificant, that I shall miss the most ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: What follows might be depressing. It might be boring, and it will definitely be long. I'm disabling comments too. This is something I need to write, and need to make sure has been said. It is going to hurt me to write it, but it is also going to help me because I will have let it out. If you want to keep reading with this in mind, that' ( Read more... )

Sick.  Sick with a cold, sick with sadness, just miserable.

I may not write much here for a while.

That is all.

As Karl Wirz sat in his hotel room, he reckoned that he had never been in such a desolate place in his whole life.  As a newspaper photographer, he'd been sent to some hell-holes, but this one beat it all.  One restaurant, one hotel, no bars, and a good hour drive from anywhere ( Read more... )

We lost a little friend on Friday.  He will be badly missed ( Read more... )

[WARNING: This will be a longish blog, because I'm including some quotes and snips that I think are important ... if you hate long blogs, and don't have time to read this one, I will completely understand ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was an interesting day.  My big blue and gold macaw, Sammy, came to the office with me so we could more conveniently get him to an afternoon grooming appointment ( Read more... )

There's been a recent flurry of stories in our blogring about teachers, and ways of gently but hilariously tweaking them. I've felt the need to participate, but most of my teachers were boring, a few were inspiring, a few were infuriating, but none was genuinely, spontaneously funny even when teased ( Read more... )