Archive for December, 2003
Wednesday, December 31st, 2003
The Last Hours of 2003
As I’ve gone about today’s chores, watching the last hours of 2003 seeming to move by more quickly than usual, I’ve tried to run a mental assessment of the last year. I suspect many of the people with whom I just stood in line at the grocery store or the ones muttering over the same [...]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2003
I’m Working On It
I’m at work on my last post of 2003 but since I woke up late, it’ll be later today. In the meantime, I’ve posted links to some screwy Current Events stories over on the board for your discussion pleasure. Don’t be bashful guys, I put the board there for all of us so don’t wait [...]
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2003
You Hook the Leaky Sis to the Two Point Guy-ga
Today I may be performing my last good deed of 2003. At 2 o’clock a friend will arrive with her brand new laptop – two weeks in her possession and she’s never opened the box – a printer and scanner for me to “set up.” The idea of buying a new computer and then letting [...]
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Monday, December 29th, 2003
Successful Dinner
A successful holiday dinner — no gas leaks — no floods! Photos here.
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Monday, December 29th, 2003
What Do You Do With A Drunken Plumber
Tonight the Movie Group gathers here for our Christmas dinner and yesterday afternoon, on cue, the kitchen flooded. Yes, that would be the same drain I paid a plumber $150 to open about two weeks ago. In fact, since Thanksgiving I’ve had the gas company here three times and the plumber twice and have imposed [...]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2003
And The Angels All Cried
Last night as I made my rounds shutting off lights and checking the locks, I was surprised to see a gentle but steady rain falling in the driveway. Like a ghostly echo from the past some song lyrics floated through my mind, “And the soft rain was teardrops, for the angels all cried.” I smiled, [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2003
Getting Ready for the Big Games
Judging from the appearance of this aisle at the local Tom Thumb, whoever is in charge of store inventory wants to make sure football fans have all the brewskies, cheese balls, and party mix they could want on New Year’s Day.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2003
The Peril of Christmas Clothes
[Rana raps her knuckles on the laptop screen, then sticks her head through and looks around.] “Hey, anybody out there?” After weeks and weeks of holiday mania, a surging wave of enforced good cheer that began to build when the Hallmark ladies festooned their first Jack O’Lanterns in red and green tinsel, the world seems [...]
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Friday, December 26th, 2003
The Game of Life
The mechanical run of bad luck continues apace here at Casa Eclectic. As I washed the dishes from our Christmas dinner/supper, I realized quickly that the hot water wasn’t. As much as I hate to admit this, I don’t do pilot lights. I have a rabid fear of gas explosions, the result of having seen [...]
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Thursday, December 25th, 2003
Rally Round the Christmas Radio
Merry Christmas to all you kind folks who make Eclectic Mind a fun and rewarding endeavor for me. The day dawned clear, bright and quiet here in Texas. I scrolled through the archives to see what I was thinking this time last year and found I was deep in Little Town storytelling mode and regaled [...]
