Archive for January, 2004
Saturday, January 31st, 2004
Please Think Good Thoughts
Yesterday at 11 a.m. one of R.’s good friends was apparently abducted from the parking lot of our neighborhood grocery store less than two blocks away. She’s a lovely 77-year-old woman, sharp as a tack, without an enemy in the world. Neither she nor her car have been seen in about 36 hours now, but [...]
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Friday, January 30th, 2004
New Plates
Just added seven new vanity plates to Secret Code of the Road. Found two in my archives and snapped the others on today’s round of errands. I moved the new shots to the front of the gallery so you don’t have to dig through old stuff to see them. Remember, you too can submit 640 [...]
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Friday, January 30th, 2004
I’m Cool and No One Can Kick My Ass
Yesterday I received two accolades that made my day. These aren’t the kind with your name engraved on a plaque so there’s no dusting involved which makes it even better. I have some of those and they’re in a box down at the storage unit. The ones from yesterday go up on that special mental [...]
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Thursday, January 29th, 2004
Secret Code of the Road
I’ve been working on the Secret Code of the Road gallery for a couple of weeks now. I’ve always been fascinated by vanity license plates and collected them mentally. I decided since I always have a camera in my pocket I could just as easily collect them visually. I’m opening this gallery for submissions. If [...]
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Thursday, January 29th, 2004
Bitten By the Junk Bug
Late in life the junk store / flea market bug bit Papa hard. Since his business serviced the laundry for the boys and girls camps in a neighboring larger town, he made weekly delivery trips down there. After he’d drop off that last bundle, there he’d be with a big ole empty covered trailer and [...]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
Thanks To Everyone and A Question
I want to thank all of you who not only posted comments supporting my position in this feud with the editor of the Little Town Rag but who also bothered to send email. If I had the slightest doubt about being in the right — which I didn’t — your support would have disspelled it. [...]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2004
The Little Town Rag: Round Three
Yesterday my feud with the editor of the Little Town Rag reached the boiling point. (Click here for round one and here for round two.) It all happened in response to an email from me, which basically said, “Either send me a paper or tell me why you won’t send me a paper, but give [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
Those Darn Cats
Hey gang! Just fooling around with more photos from that lovely new camera (Sony DSC-T1). Just put up a gallery of cat candids. Yep, that’s me — single, nerdy, and unabashedly a cat person. I’m working on another project for a gallery to which I hope to solicit your contributions as well as my own [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
Nevershed
During my Mother’s growing up days an old hobo lived in a dugout in the vicinity of her little town. People called him Nevershed for his lack of affinity with bathing but while the adults may have looked askance at his personal hygiene, local children loved him. Nevershed always had puppies to give away and [...]
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Monday, January 26th, 2004
An End of the Day Note
Well, first things first. How, you ask, does anyone collect a urine sample from a cat? No, I have not been following kitty around with a cup. It’s actually fairly simple. Empty the litter box, line it with a garbage bag and either leave it that way or put in a little aquarium gravel. Observe [...]
