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It’s a sad fact, but true: no matter how magnificent your backup strategy, or how elegantly organized your computer is, no one gives a tin krep. At best they’ll be impressed for 3 or 4 seconds, and then there’s either pity or envy. No better proof of virtue being its own reward. Except for helping [...]
Any day that begins with a call from the Sheriff is either going to get better or worse, with no in-between. Better if it’s nothing, worse if it’s, you know, Sheriff stuff. My wife found a card in the door when she went out to get the paper. It had been left the day [...]
I have two vacations this summer. This is one of them. So . . . I don’t know what I’m doing here, exactly, except to say that I’m on vacation.
Sorry – a staycation! See, I’m still working at the paper, but Gnat’s off to camp, and the diminished domestic obligations frees up time for [...]
On the way back from swimming we saw an ambulance trying to get through traffic at a stop light, presumably to join the dolorous choir of wailing emergency vehicles we heard when we left the mall. The presence of a white vehicle with flashing lights and a howling klaxon usually impresses upon others the need [...]
It was Ice Cream Day at the school where Gnat took classes this week. Web design and Pokemon. As for Web Design, they learned iWeb. Sigh. Not exactly a platform with a future. In Pokemon class, if you can call that, they had the FINAL BATTLE today, and while she was knocked out in the [...]
Called up the Beethoven playlist tonight and noticed that nothing had been assigned a star. How can I tell what I like if I I don’t rate it? And enter the rating in my personal database? So I started to enter some ratings, giving the “Egmont” overture a solid five, of course; the moody, [...]
Okay, free money is one thing, but making us sit through a 90-minute presentation on what we have to do to get it – really. And I had to drive there too. Oh, someone will come out to my house for the next step, but I also have to go to a showroom [...]
The following is not about Star Trek. It is about this:
It would be wrong to say our family subscribed to TV Guide. I subscribed. I bought the subscription with my own money, because I was the one who wanted to explore the wonders and gala glories that was the Triple Entente [...]
Back to the bike shop. Today I looped around the block so I could park in front, and got stuck behind a truck unloading rolls of fabric. The driver had carefully positioned his truck: None Shall Pass. I waited for him to unload, put the pallet back, lower the door, fold up the hoist, then [...]
Friday the 13th comes on a Friday this month, which is twice the amount of bad luck. If that makes no sense to you – and someone actually sent me a brain-boiled letter asking how it was possible for Friday the 13th to fall on any other day, ya maroon – then perhaps you’re unfamiliar [...]
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