Fixings (what I used in making my club sandwich):

• Grey Poupon - made with Horseradish, Deli Mustard style (on sale)
• Mayo - (the real stuff, not salad dressing or whatever; store brand or label; on sale)
• 3 slices of 100% Stone Ground Whole Wheat bread (Pepperidge Farm brand)
• 4 slices of white American Cheese (the real thing too, not that over- ( Read more... )

The past three days have finally brought some excellent summery weather to the Republic I proudly reside within (Vermont ( Read more... )

Just happened to learn from a recent blog post on Rael's LiveJournal the sad news that Bruce Munro died, here.

Bruce was a neighbor of mine when we lived in the same apartment building on Barre Street in Montpelier during the early and mid 90's, a rather good neighbor too; one who minded his own business and left others alone for the most part, yet ( Read more... )

figured I'd better blog up something sooner rather than later in order to at least check in and even if it is mostly for the sake of posting in this instance, since it is obvious that one thing or another has managed to keep me from blogging anything within this particular journal for nearly two entire weeks.

had meant to blog something up earlier ( Read more... )

Although it has never been among my favorite things to do, I was finally compelled to jump upon my growing pile of dirty clothes (figuratively speaking anyway) and was forced to bring a small load of them with me into town today so I could get them washed (and, dried too), before they beat me to it and walk(ed) themselves over there on their own.

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While I did not sleep well last night and, had a rough go of it for a time this morning, after getting a rather late start today I am beginning to feel a little better now: i.e., let's just say okay (which, as mentioned in a previous post somewhere, is much better than not ( Read more... )

I'm feeling like crap these days.

enough said.

As a brief follow-up of a sort to my previous post (here), I was able to catch a ride into Montpelier early this morning in order to attend the men's breakfast hosted at Christ Church the last Saturday of each month. Both the conversation and camaraderie was particularly good as well as rather lively this morning.

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As is typically the case, there is not much to really report on my end of things, except that now May is just around the corner my thoughts will be focused even more than usual on the fact that I have one month until I move out of what has been my temporary home since December 1st (2004) as well as the need to find someplace -- hopefully more ( Read more... )

While I am still operating in low-energy mode, I am feeling a little better today.

Even though I did not manage to sleep well last night, I decided to come into town for at least one day on before the week ends, especially after having taken three straight days off-line. It was a good thing I did too, since the e-mail was piling up and needed some ( Read more... )