Archive for April, 2004
Friday, April 30th, 2004
The Break Up
The past 24 hours or so have passed in surrealistic jerks. As I said in my brief post last night, G.W.’s announcement that he was pulling out of our small hosting business did not come as a surprise, but the lack of warning did as did his insistence that the server be shut down as [...]
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Thursday, April 29th, 2004
Sorry for the Delay of Service
Sorry to be missing in action today and thanks to those who dropped me an email to make sure all is well here at Casa Eclectic. My “kind of” business partner pretty much announced today he no longer had time for the small hosting company in which we’ve both had an interest. I knew it [...]
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2004
A Triptych Unhinged
Shutterbug to the Past
Of all the chores I will postpone as long as possible, doing the laundry tops the list. Last night I had no choice due to an impending underwear outage and so attacked the bulging hamper. When the first load came out of the dryer, I decided to fold up my long-sleeved shirts [...]
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
No Escape
It’s an indication of how much farther I’ve sunk into domesticity than I ever intended to go when I wake up and my first coherent thought is, “Thank God! It’s trash day.” Last summer our fair city, in all its inconsiderable wisdom, dropped trash pick-ups to once a week but thoughtfully supplied its citizens with [...]
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Monday, April 26th, 2004
Home Decorating
Over the past ten days or so I’ve been watching shows like Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, and In A Fix on the Learning Channel. I even became sufficiently involved to vote in the Trading Spaces: Home Free competition and was elated when “my” team won. I would never let complete strangers or even [...]
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Sunday, April 25th, 2004
A Jail Cell in Madrid
A story crossed my path today leaving behind a sad little trail of borrowed experience. The cousin of a friend of R.’s bought a ticket and took off to Spain. That sounds romantic and the makings of an excellent adventure, but this woman traveled while caught in the grips of a schizophrenic episode. She believed [...]
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Saturday, April 24th, 2004
Life In A Ditch
For the past two or three weeks I’ve taken more refuge than usual in my digital photography. Work has been slow and the things I have had to do tipped the Tedium Scale of 1to 10 at somewhere around 15. I’m in one of my mid-season moods, a kind of shifting unease while winter and [...]
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Friday, April 23rd, 2004
If Ever An Image
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If ever an image captured my essential essence on a given day this would be it. My biggest accomplishment of the day was writing a check to the air conditioner guy for doing the yearly service. Now we’re just waiting for a major thunderstorm to hit and I guess the memo [...]
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2004
A Fragment of Memory
The Empress called today to ask me to go up to the pool house with her. The electrician who refused to tackle the larger problems of the landscape lighting here at the complex did agree to fix a couple of things including the replacement of a small yard light. He was so nervous about the [...]
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
Two Ding Dong Breakfasts
On the request line we have Beth from Jersey asking, in relation to yesterday’s first post, “Could you please explain to me and your other readers how you got such good grades in school after eating two Ding Dongs for breakfast?” Beth, you’ve forgotten that time in third grade when Mrs. L. discovered I hadn’t [...]
