Category: Everyday Stories
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Brownies are baking
My ISP hates me. I’d been watching C-Span, waiting for Bush to come on. Right at 1:00 p.m. my DSL stopped working, so I couldn’t watch C-Span (which I only get online) or follow any commentary elsewhere. So I watched on Fox news television which was the only channel coming in decently. When he was…
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Waiting for the 1:00 p.m. Bush press conference
Ok, ok. A little happy dance today. Some people who used to vote repub proved themselves not quite so insane by voting, at least, against a portion of the insanity that’s been ruling America. That’s a cause to celebrate a little, no matter what happens next. I’m telling myself right now we won the Senate…
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Oh, and of course…
Oh, and of course, Marty and H.o.p. soundly sleeping, I’m sitting here trying not to think about Montana and Virginia. I very successfully avoided thinking about the Senate races all evening. Was all set for the Senate to be lost. But now that it’s down to Montana and Virginia I’m suddenly obsessed by them now…
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I cautiously try on a celebratory hat then replace it on the shelf for now…
Around here, Bush is synonymous with Mega Evil Fucking Bad. H.o.p. has grown up hearing it…is well aware. Y’know the old cartoon where Gallant is Good and Goofus is Bad, in simplifying ethics for H.o.p. Bush has pretty much stood for All Things Bad. “Would Bush do it? Well then that’s just what you don’t…
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The power of the poor over the rich
Several weeks ago I chose not to write about something but Nora Ephron’s blog at the Huffington celeb Joint about her being oh I guess so gushingly deliciously close to casino mogul Steve Wynn’s pushing an elbow accidentally through Picasso’s “Le Reve” brought the something back to mind so I guess I will write about…
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Rumble!
Sigh, all of us being down with the cold since the week’s beginning is fraying our nerves somewhat. And certain things are driving me bonkers. Like the rumble. We live in a near 100 year old apartment building and our wood floor is set directly on a concrete foundation. We think it’s this that makes…
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The Michelangelo Antonioni cold
What day is it? Tuesday I went to bed optimistic. I was feeling a little better. I’d had some laughs. The cold would certainly be gone when I got up. It wasn’t! In fact, I felt godawful freaking horrible when I woke up. Though not immediately. First I laid there and wondered what world I…
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Autographs and a refuge-seeking cat
Two events added a little levity to our tissue-packed day on Tuesday (H.o.p.’s working with me on a third roll). (1) When Marty got home in the evening a cat that belongs to a woman upstairs decided it’d had enough of being locked out of the building in the rain and zipped past Marty into…
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The music for the day was Arvo Part’s "Miserere"
For a few minutes yesterday AM H.o.p. woke up saying he was sick, something about his chest hurting etc. and fell back to sleep. Marty was worried. But on Saturday at acting class the regular teacher wasn’t there as she was sick and I’ve heard a lot about “sick” going around and I figured that…
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"A Day at the Ticket Booth" went splendidly
The Alliance’s Acting I class for 3rd to 5th grades ended today and parents/interested parties got to come in for the last hour and hear a bit of what had been going on the past 6 weeks and watch a little skit. H.o.p. was *very* excited to have us there, introducing me to the entire…
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I guess this is the DSC-F717 white fog I’ve read about
Several months ago I read of the white fog that will hit some Sony DSC-F717 cameras after about two years plus of use. I hoped this was something I’d escape but over the past couple of months the picture quality seemed to be degrading, was nothing like it was last year, and so I think…
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Of Morris Dancing and Green Men
Some lively Morris Dancing here. Got there by discussions with H.o.p. Thursday on the Green Man. For which he seems to have an affinity, which is why we were discussing it, as for some reason he came upon it again Wednesday night and said he wanted to know more about it. So Wednesday night I…