Archive for April, 2010
Friday, April 30th, 2010
A Word About Attitude
“How can you drink bourbon?” my friend asked.
We were on the phone, so I stared at the BlackBerry because I couldn’t stare at her. “Well, for starters, Jack Daniels is sour mash, not bourbon. And you drink it by pouring it in a glass.”
“Why didn’t you two just smoke cigars while you were at it?”
“It [...]
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
PathLessPedaled Presentation
Some of you may recall that I’ve been avidly following the adventures of Russ and Laura from PathLessPedaled.com for several months now. They have made it to Forth Worth, and gave a presentation last night at Trinity Bicycles, which the Wookie and I attended. (I’m lower left in a bright red shirt.)
It was absolutely fascinating [...]
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Day 865 and Counting
In just a few minutes, I’ll be getting on the Bicycle Going Nowhere for my 865th consecutive exercise day. I may not do ab workouts, but me and cardio are tight, thick as thieves, like “that.”
I paid a little better than $600 for that recumbent bike, money I didn’t have. At first I was determined [...]
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
“Eschew!” Gesundheit.
The English language and I are not on writing terms. I could be setting my hand to compose a nuphedragen review or the great American novel and the same degree of dreck would ensue.
At first I thought I was just getting over my fit of the allergies. Oh, no. That would be far too easy. [...]
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
{Sniffle, honk.} I’m alive, kinda.
High pollen season finally felled me. I wound up spending most of the second half of last weekend in the dull haze of a headache and I’ve been fending off a sore throat and dealing with sinus drainage since.
Monday night I thought I really was getting sick until I took a long distance friend’s suggestion [...]
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Saturday, April 17th, 2010
Flooded by Memory
The rivers are up around the Little Town. I’m in one of my Facebook lurking phases and I’ve been sitting back as people have posted that Johnson Fork is still coming down (which in our peculiar vernacular means the water is still rising) or that Copperas has left them stranded.
The references draw glowing lines on [...]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
The Tax Man Cometh and Need to Goeth
With tax day looming and our materials still not in order, I asked our accountant to file an extension – and then I quit worrying about it. Probably this weekend I’ll have the time to finish sorting the piles, do the necessary math, and deliver the whole mess to J.B. to work her magic.
A vast [...]
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Three? There are three?!
This morning, long before dawn, as I was standing in the darkened kitchen waiting for the coffee to brew, I heard a cat fight erupt on the patio. Midnight and Socks don’t fight, so I walked to the patio door and flipped the light on.
If a feline had been standing there in equestrian clothing announcing, [...]
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Continued Struggles at Level 52
While I’m not the “lounge around in a terry romper on Sunday” kind of gal, I am a “doze off in my chair and drool delicately” sort. I did a good bit of that yesterday.
While everyone else is complaining about the record-setting levels of pollen this year and sneezing and / or coughing their heads [...]
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
They Can Wait for My Pound of Flesh
It would be a whole lot more efficient to life in general if I could snag a Symbol LS2208 bar code scanner and just zip all the stuff I need to do or keep track of into some internal database – one that is actually functional and up-to-date, rather than my own muddled gray cells.
Yes, [...]
