From the monthly archives: May 2011
It’s not that I can’t do electrical work. I just know how it would end. Finger in the outlet, body parallel to the ground, skeleton blinking on and off, smell of burnt hair and fabric, superpowers. But I know how to isolate a problem. I know that if one outlet doesn’t seem to work, you [...]
The sun came out, and seemed to think that was enough. Oh, warmth, too? Look, let’s not get greedy here. If that’s the thanks I get it’s clouds and rain all weekend. And so it might be.
But it was out for the Track and Field day at Gnat’s school, when they all go out [...]
Daughter comes home from school in the usual mood, with a smile and offhand assurances that school was fine and everything’s fine and so on and so forth, but: for moment I catch her staring into the Void, a shadow on her features, and it’s time for the parental probe: what’s the matter? Oh nothing. [...]
Brief, offhand casual revelation: looks like the Diner might be returning to AM radio. Details to come, and yes: it’ll be available online. Yes, my most long-standing fictional construct may get another venue. What a world!
No sun again. Well, some, obviously – if the land was shrouded in dark, untouched by a single photon, [...]
Aside from mistakenly deleting the phone message from my wife telling me she would be four hours late from work, which resulted in believing she was probably dead and the police would come any moment now, and I’d probably be a suspect at first until they checked the phone records, which show my repeated calls, [...]
Rain, hail, tornados: that was the weekend. The worst of it fell on North Minneapolis, which was chewed up much like the area a few blocks to my north a few springs back – the same pictures of crumpled cars beneath great trunks, huge clods of earth upended with the roots seeing the sun for [...]
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 [...]
We rejoin our bike shop story, already in progress. Recall that my wife bought it Saturday morn, I went back to get it, was told it needed another part, was advised to get it myself elsewhere; jerk that I am, I pressed the clerk at the bike repair shop to completely repair the bike, something [...]
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