Archive for January, 2006
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
An Old Friend
About twenty-two years ago while on a Christmas shopping excursion I bought a pen, the refillable Uniball 500. I love that pen. It has superb balance and the Uniball refills were the best available at the time. I used that pen every day until I left San Marcos in 1990 and moved to the Big [...]
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
Blogging By Hand
Written at 9 a.m., longhand, in the Justin Arena
From my perch in the Justin Arena, I’m watching while more than a dozen men are measuring out the position of the barrels for this morning’s barrel racing. From what I can tell, four are actually doing the work and the remainder are supervising.
Around them a growing [...]
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Monday, January 30th, 2006
Barrel Racing
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Complete album here.
Text entry to follow later this afternoon.
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Sunday, January 29th, 2006
Sunday Synopsis
Sunday ends with my 92nd keyword essay for the month completed. Who would have thought you could get paid for such bad writing? Of course the pay is bad, so perhaps it all fits. Yesterday the Wookie and I had an excellent time walking around the barns and eating breakfast in a crowd of cowboys, [...]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Snapshot Saturday Addendum
Obviously the Wookie and I spent some time walking around the livestock barns at the Stock Show this morning. The album of photos can be found here. Warning: Cute children and animals may lead to a spontaneous outbreak of “Awwwwwww-itis.”
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
Snapshot Saturday
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
Textures
Yesterday morning as I walked toward the Justin Arena, a woman came out of the double doors carrying a Styrofoam cup of coffee. She was what we call in Texas, an “ole gal.”
It’s a term that gives non-Texans problems because it does not pretend to sly implications about orientation nor is it suggestive of profession. [...]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
After The Rodeo
The Wookie, Missy J., and I parted company in the parking lot after the rodeo. I veered toward the Cowgirl Hall of Fame where I’d left the van. Ahead of me I saw a white pick-up idling. A cowboy was standing coatless in the night air and I heard tell-tale words.
“Baby, I can explain.”
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Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Eat Dirt
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Not Enough Money . . .
. . . in the world to get me to do this.
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. . . or for that matter . . .
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. . . and finally.
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