Archive for February, 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
In Today’s Episode of “As the Passive Aggression Turns” . . .
There’s this scene in “YaYa Sisterhood” that to me always explained Vivi’s drinking. One kid throwing up, another producing by-product from the opposite direction, which she steps in. Everybody screaming at once.
I had my own version yesterday — just came in and put the groceries on the counter, R. starting in immediately wanting more coffee [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Round Two, It Had to Be
Just imagine what I could do with office furniture and duct tape.
Yes, there was a round two. You knew there would be. To address concerns about heat build-up (you know, paper being flammable and all) and to increase the light, I modified the . . . design. (And, as someone pointed out, ruined the free [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Old Lady, Lamp, Bag, Cat vs. Me
As always, my friends are my best online backup when life gets crazy around here. While being supportive last evening, the Facebook crew was also understandably amused as the following illustration of “crazy” played out.
Now, I don’t mean to suggest that R. intentionally does stuff just to drive me insane . . .
Well, actually, [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
The Offending White Box
While 5 a.m. may not be the best time of the day mentally to contemplate topics like instant comparisons of term insurance quotes, this is the second day I’ve been up with the chickens and cranking out work.
As I’m writing, it’s 7:12 a.m. and this is my fourth composition of the morning. Mike is snoozing [...]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The Snow Day That Wasn’t
We’re not much on basements down here in Texas, but given the overall pattern of our climate, I’d have expected to be shopping for a basement dehumidifier long before I was in the market for a snow shovel.
Last night the weather man said we’re within 1.9 inches of breaking the all-time snowfall record here in Fort [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Monday, Off to a Good Start
After enduring several days of a “To Do” list with rheumatoid arthritis, everything realigned over the weekend and my plate is nice and full again. In fact, this morning I was able to move some things around and agreed to write for a new client whose topics sounds fresh and interesting.
An excellent start to the [...]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Sunday? More Coffee
Watching the cross country skiing events has made me glad I’ve been ignoring Nordic Track coupons for years. Dang! That looks like hard work. At least on the recumbent bike I can tell myself I’m exercising sitting down!
(Tomorrow, by the way, will be a huge Milestone Monday: Day 800.)
Speaking of things physical, I’ve been paying [...]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
The Cable Guy, In the Dark, With a Shovel
The best deal of the day in my book? A phone that does not ring once. I either have none of the neighbors speaking to me or all of them talking at once.
As yesterday played out, the landscaping lights are still not fixed. Good Ole Boy cleared a mountain of brush out of the alley [...]
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Afternoon Update
As long as I live here, I’ll never need to find the top rated diet pill to keep my weight down. Anger burns a heck of a lot of calories.
Let me just say that Deaf Neighbor and her Dad are being the south end of northbound horses about this cable business.
Good Ole Boy has not [...]
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Electrical Debacle: Dawn of Day Two
Ah, for the simplicity of the days when acne medicine was the only Rx on my mind. Valium, anyone? Anyone?
First rattle out of the box this morning the phone rings and it’s Deaf Neighbor’s Dad wanting to know what the hell I did to her cable and Internet, which are both out.
Okay, counting to 10 [...]
