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Category: Everyday Stories

  • Ant art installation on futile industry not showing much industry

    “Fortunate Discoveries by Accident” described her ants as dividing themselves into morticians, executives and construction workers. Her ants, like those blogged about at Gearworks, were fully fledged up to fun not long after their arrival. H.o.p.’s ants are nearly all executives, running around not doing much other than discussing discussing, with several racing over to…

  • One day…

    One day…

    H.o.p.(out of the blue starts telling me a story): One day, a mouse was digging in the ground because he wanted to be a paleontologist and a rock star… Ho ho. Because I caught it, he regaled me thereafter with a number of variations. * * * * * * * * We were talking…

  • H.o.p.’s Ants Arrived

    H.o.p.’s Ants Arrived

    We sent off for H.o.p.’s ants from Uncle Milton Sept. 4th. The window for arrival had the latest date as Oct. 18th. Last week we received notice that they’d be mailing them out and they arrived today, first class mail, in an envelope marked “Temperature sensitive, Keep from Heat and Frost, Perishable, Handle with care”.…

  • The Perfume of Serious Welding Has Been Wafting the Air

    Oh, this has been going on a while, hasn’t it. On March 14 I blogged about a pipe feeding the radiant heaters that had apparently busted in our kitchen wall, in January, and how it was humidly wrecking havoc on the kitchen with steam pouring through the wall, peeling paint etc. And it couldn’t be…

  • THE DALAI LAMA AT CENTENNIAL PARK IN ATLANTA

    THE DALAI LAMA AT CENTENNIAL PARK IN ATLANTA

    It had been drizzling so I didn’t pack the camera when we walked from Midtown to Centennial Park to hear the Dalai Lama. Thus, the only pic I’ve to offer is the below one taken with my cellphone. H.o.p. brought his camera but he took pics of the kids playing next to us. Another reason…

  • AND SO IT GOES

    RIP hermie.

  • AND SO IT GOES…OH, WAIT…

    AND SO IT GOES…OH, WAIT…

    Supposed optimum living conditions. And it didn’t even drop any legs, like some hermit crabs do when they get stressed and ill. Just half crawled out of its shell today and was lethargic and limp. So we put it in an isolation tank away from the other crabs and this evening it crawled completely out…

  • They stood at the river, waiting for Colonel Bruce Hampton to pick them up and carry them to the other side

    They stood at the river, waiting for Colonel Bruce Hampton to pick them up and carry them to the other side

    “…in Hoogie Boogie Land there is no war, there is no hate, can you relate? So take us Sparky. Take us where we want to be.” And then, of course, you will want to watch the interview. “Stop that,” the Colonel said, and rode on, exhibiting only a trace of embarrassment. (Actually, one of the…

  • SPELLING LESSON

    Marty’s the one doing H.o.p.’s spelling lesson tonight. So, I’m sitting here reading and I hear behind me: Marty: Union. Union. He joined a labor union to try to get better pay for all workers. H.o.p.: No, no. How about instead, “The Nature Team is a union of freedom to escape the atomic bomb”. I…

  • Guess the accent

    Just for the hell of it, this is what we really sound like around here. Real speaking voices. Except for H.o.p.’s. He’s performing. Guess the accent. Real Audio Streaming Sample Conversation You get to hear me squeal three times as H.o.p. accidentally sits on my toe that recently lost its toenail (we were sharing the…

  • You Want to Hear Me Flub, Right?

    Update on the notion of podcasting some readings of “Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin”. I’ve got a nice mic here and preamp that I’m borrowing from Marty. Makes things sound so much better (though tinny was good for the animations). And I’m trying to get used to…

  • Sorry, no photos

    Young son will hopefully now think twice about leaving things scattered all about. “You need to pick all this up,” I said and said again. Then rammed my foot right into a dumbbell of mine he’d taken from next to my desk and left lying in the middle of the floor. Ripped a toenail right…