Category: Everyday Stories
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Small Story about the Iron
The other day, in the small back room which is lined with old shelving and which we use mainly as a storage room, I set up the ironing board and iron and afterward neglected to take it down. It is a small room and so yesterday Marty and I were sitting in it talking, which…
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Where's George
A little bit of fun on a day that was so boring it was disorienting. H.o.p.’s been losing baby teeth like crazy the past month. Subsequent last night’s visit from the Tooth Fairy, he asked me what was up with one of the dollar bills. It had strange writing on it, he said. I looked…
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Hurry, it's your last day to get your name on the moon (at least via the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)
We did it. We are sending our names to the moon via NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Well, I did it. Marty didn’t. He’s in a session and knows nothing about it. And H.o.p. didn’t do it either, to tell the truth. I called his attention to the project thinking he would be “Oh, wow!” and…
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Options
Do you want to see a photo of Marty’s kombucha tea culture, which after a number of months and much experimentation and loving attention has yet to deliver a decent tasting batch? Probably not.
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If Twitter Tools Worked (or Twitter or Something Inbetween) Then This Would Have Been Posted On My Blog Automatically At Around Midnight Presumably
You see, I, of course, asked the waitron how many birthdays they had a night. She rolled her eyes and sighing, said (see above). – about 9 hours ago from web “Everyone says they have a birthday because they all think they get a free cheesecake but they don’t. They just get a sundae.” Waitron.…
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Differences of Opinion – The Rusty Nail
Though I have often thought of it as “silly overfull thing slopping water all over the place”, when an adult he will fondly remember the nail in a jar experiment that he kept on the side of the bathroom sink, retopping with water daily, for a full month and then some (as of June 24,…
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The Inessential Twitter Updates for 2008-06-23
Twitter test. Everything keeps going wrong with it. # Test. # Drag Queen size dye-me square toe pumps sitting beside the apartment trash for two days, forlorn and ignored by tran hookers. # “I was killed 100 times in a row and I’m still at the same level. I’m getting real bored with this.” Karmaking…
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Dancin' Fool
Shorty’s has great pizza. And Key Lime pie. I know because we went out there tonight to see King Johnson. That link is to their myspace page where they have some songs up off the 2005 album that Marty mixed. Great fun, funky band. This was one of of their two reunion shows. I love…
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In Which H.o.p. Gives Up On Me
H.o.p. has a pretty good sense of humor. And he’s been doing what he can to cultivate it, with intention. He spends his Friday nights watching the old Monty Python’s Flying Circus on BBC and chuckling, guffawing, laughing uproariously. He has a great appreciation for absurdity.  Last night it was blancmange aliens turning the English…
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The Rain Check
H.o.p. is posting some of his comics again over on his blog. On top of all the other drawings he does, and still making a lot of neat little sculptures, he’s churning out about 6 Angsley, Kitty and Catter cartoons a day this week. On Monday, while the landlord was here with his helper fixing…
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Friends don't let friends use Behr paint
This past weekend I painted the kitchen and Marty painted the bathroom. Friends don’t let friends use Behr paint. The thing is, the wide world web had ample opportunity to warn me, “DON’T USE THE BEHR PAINT! IT IS THIN! IT DRIPS! AND DRIPS SOME MORE! THEN DRIPS LOTS LOTS LOTS MORE WHEN YOU’RE NOT…
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Po'Boys and Paint
There we are driving down Boulevard on our way to get ice cream for H.o.p. and I see a pint-size purple restaurant with a couple of tables outside and customers headed inside and big letters proclaiming honest to god New Orleans PO’BOYS! Marty had already proposed eating out, which I’d nixed, though we were all…