Archive for August, 2003
Sunday, August 31st, 2003
Sleepy, Lazy Sunday
Praise be to All Powers. We’re in the low eighties with rain today! It’s a sleepy, lazy Sunday and I have a new DVD — Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. So, creativity resumes tomorrow, but there are new photos at PhotoEclectic including one snapped a few minutes ago when I made a Starbucks [...]
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Saturday, August 30th, 2003
It’s About the Gathering
Labor Day always struck me as a quasi-holiday. When a friend mentioned last week how much she needed the coming three-day weekend I had to really rev the gray cells to figure out what she was talking about. Truth be told, the way we live the only difference we’ll notice is no mail on Monday, [...]
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Friday, August 29th, 2003
History, Aisle 5, Best Buy
Yesterday at Best Buy a sales girl of about twelve checked out my purchases, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and the latest Dark Shadows boxed sets, 6 and 7. I’d had an interesting browse through the television rack of the DVD section and was amazed to discover the availability of the original “Charlie’s [...]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2003
Friggin’ Techno Morons
Creativity trickles around here today. Night before last while walking to the kitchen with Miss J., R. stepped wrong and sprained her ankle. She’s barely been able to put her weight on it since which means when she has to get up in the night I’m on wheelchair duty. Since I haven’t been sleeping well [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2003
Queer Eye
Last night Miss J., now mostly absent from these parts due to a new teaching job, came over for supper. I made a pan of brownies – from a box to R.’s horror, no matter how much J. and I tried to explain the slumber party / dorm room nostalgia attraction angle – and we [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2003
Grandpa’s Long Johns
An odd borrowed memory crossed my mind today. My maternal grandfather was buried in his long johns. The fact that he wore long underwear year round in West Texas would be enough to fascinate me, but there’s an oft-told story about Grandma coming to Mother with the drawers in a paper sack after he died. [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2003
Router Round About
Of the little joys with which life decided to gift me today the most frustrating took the form of a dying router. The only trouble being that the good folks at Linksys don’t like to say, “That router’s dead.” They’ll say things like, “You need to contact your laptop’s manufacturer,” or “Well, you know Mars [...]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2003
Must. Be. Patient.
Must. Be. Patient. Maybe I’ll get that tattooed somewhere, like on the underside of my wrist on the watch line where the band will hide it most of the time but the words will still be touching my pulse, beating out a mini mantra into my bloodstream. Must. Be. Patient.
When R. was a little girl [...]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2003
Polka Dot Ascot
Last night one of the movie channels showed three Clark Gable movies back to back. R. was keen to watch this screen idol from her youth so we tuned in to the 1953 John Ford flick, Mogambo. I’d seen the film before and remembered that Gable found himself torn between Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2003
Couple of New Photos
Just a note to let you know there are a couple of new photos over at PhotoEclectic. Julie’s still working on getting the thumbnails plugged in over here so just follow the link to see what my camera and I have been seeing.
