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What a world we live in. I can research stuff, and watch Are You Being Served on Youtube at the same time. Mr. Humphries leaps out from beneath a dropcloth in a nightcap and pyjamas, holding Paddington Bear. Mrs. Slocombe... heh ( Read more... )

My father's wife puts a load of clothes in the wash. Among these clothes is the shirt and slacks that Dale was wearing when he was admitted to St. Paul's. For whatever reason she fails to check the pockets when she loads them in ( Read more... )

There's something doing across the alley, in the apartment directly opposite ours. Bizarre lights are cycling around in there and i can hear the sounds of power tools. What can they be up to at 3:37 in the morning ( Read more... )

Turns out that the mystery of Dale's bloodloss and his body's stubborn reluctance to absorb food properly has been illuminated. The melanoma that he was treated for in 2007 has returned, and it has infiltrated his entire bowel tract. And it was, in fact, never in remission at all. It looks like a matter of "How long, and with what quality of life ( Read more... )

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Today at work I came across a small, narrow table in the corner, partially enclosed with cubicle walls. There was a chair in front of it and nothing on it but a telephone, a phone book, and a portable stereo on the floor beneath it. I thought that I ought to go get a container of hand-lotion and a roll of toilet paper from downstairs and leave them ( Read more... )

Man, I can't believe how I blindly staggered through the Microsoft world for so long before discovering Linux. Wooo, my new journal client is totally cool! Now, if only I had any thoughts or anything to say...
[empty face, drool]

Ahem. I went to bed last night, slept very well, and woke up again just now. The cat was pawing at me, doing the "kneading the dough" thing that cats do. Meaning: "Hey, tall hairless one, it's breakfast time. Get up!"

I prepare myself some medicine in a hurry, because it must be drunk before food intake and Sarah's busy producing cooking noises and ( Read more... )

Very seldom, when you say that you "hate" someone, do you have a really established basis to speak from.

Most of the time, when someone is speaking about hating someone, it's an overstatement for effect. "I hate that guy" Or they're stating that they hate the acts of that person. But you have to really know what you're talking about.

Intimate ( Read more... )