Archive for January, 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Thoughts On a Young Woman’s 21st
The reason for the blog-less state of things these past three days is that I’ve been in a word-less state of mind. We’ve had kind of an up and down state of diplomatic relations and there’s not a lot new to say about that. Sometimes it feels like I’ve written the same blog entry several [...]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Put Down the Switch Blades, Already
Well, I guess everyone knows that the big product launch yesterday wasn’t Minka Aire fans. Yeah, Apple finally brought out their long-awaited tablet and just the way everybody jumped on the iPhone, fangs gnashing with doom, they’re crawling all over this thing.
Could I just point out that comparing the iPad to a laptop doesn’t make [...]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
My Continued Efforts with the Entertainment Math
Okay, with some minor expenses you just have to suck it up and pay. In the interest of keeping R. entertained while I’m trying to work, I re-activated my Netflix account. I mean honestly, how the hell many times can the woman sit there and watch “Gladiator?” If I’m mouthing the dialog along with Maximus [...]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Monday, Monday — Again
Monday was one of those Mondays here at Casa Eclectic. R. was in a mood and nothing I said or did was going to get her out of it. Fortunately, I finished a major series of articles in the morning, because I didn’t get a blessed thing done after she got up.
After she was in [...]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Biscuits and Gravy on the Page
By my reckoning, I’ve knocked out about 5,000 words today. Yeah, I’m a little cross-eyed and I’m taking a break right now with a fresh cup of coffee and a really bad episode of “Paranormal State,” but I hope to get more done before day’s end. The more I work, the steadier I am. I [...]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
New Tires, Old Memories
Yesterday I forced myself to tend to getting two new tires put on the van so it will pass inspection. It was a mind-numbing two hours in a place apparently so daunted by plasma mounts they’re using an old analog TV set up high on a shelf getting half a signal. And there was no [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Blood Will Tell
Over the past couple of years I’ve written entirely too many articles for clients about auto insurance quotes in the ongoing quest for filthy lucre. I won’t say that it’s work I’ve enjoyed, but it is work for which I’m grateful. How does the song lyric go, “You can’t always get what you want?”
Well, these [...]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Two Weeks in with the Netbook
While I may always be on the lookout for more work, I’ve never performed an admin job search. I’m my own admin and two weeks ago, I made an executive decision about the office equipment and bought a Gateway LT2104u netbook, which I promptly christened TigerCub.
The tiny machine has made a surprisingly productive place for [...]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
With Our People
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This dark, grainy photo, taken 13 years ago at Papa’s funeral is the only one in existence of all but two of my first cousins. One of those number, Scott Waddell, has died. He’s the fellow on the back row on the left in the white shirt.
I didn’t know Scott well, [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
And for the Living, Scars
Last night I read a news report in the regional paper that covers the areas around the Little Town. The story laid out the details of the murder of a local man and the apparent complicity of his wife and a second male. I know the family, in fact the daughter was in my graduating [...]
