Category: Everyday Stories
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Preserving the underground history of a city
Apparently it’s annother anniversary with Earthlink. They send us a link to an anniversary page that shows a present with confetti raining over it. Despite the fact I hate Earthlink, confetti always manages to make me feel special. Inner child goes, “Look, confetti!” for one split second. But even the inner child knows better and…
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Ouch (a public service annoucement)
Something not to do in a confined space with your child is play a variation of Blind Man’s Bluff. Which we were doing yesterday morning, my eyes were closed, and I ended up tripping backwards over a toy and usually I’m good at catching myslf in such situations but that’s when I can see and…
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Georgie (uninvited guest blogging)
Georgie may not look large to you, but when I saw Georgie skitter across the floor away from me, I screamed. She looks a very respectable size in person. She (or he) is trapped here underneath a large mouthed vase. Update: It occurs to me that Georgie’s big enough that I could paint a smiley…
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Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me… Marty’s out of town on a gig today with Heaven Davis, and is playing tomorrow as well so it was nice to get a call from my brother, G., whose wife and child are out of town, and he’ll be coming over tonight for a bit to…
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Friday video and H.o.p. says I can't act
Here’a a video, done about about a year and a half ago, of a very disheveled, sleepy-looking six-year-old H.o.p. (I think he was six, but it may be later than that) reciting Peter and Paul which he learned on Teletubbies. I’m putting this up because I’m always losing where this video is and love it,…
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Who's buying all those ugly Honda Elements? Musicians.
While I’m sitting here burning and burning and burning stuff off onto disks (spurred to do so by realizing I did indeed lose several digital painted portraits of H.o.p. sometime during the latest computer drama that lasted several months and is still ongoing as this thing is freezing up all the time and has me…
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If you’re feeling whimsical, Tubby the Tuba
Audio link is gone so am placing the Pal instead, now online. We used to have a trash copy of Pal’s Tubby I was able to tape off some program years ago, but can’t find it anymore. I went looking online today as H.o.p. was asking about it and found the audio, which H.o.p. also…
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The apartment above us doesn’t like anyone to pay rent for it or live there very long
When you hear lots of scraping on the floor above in the middle of the night, if you live in an apartment building you may suddenly become an heir to plants left behind by neighbors who are slipping away without paying their rent. The first time we ended up with a concrete lawn bunny and…
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Vaguely hunting
We can no longer stand driving around this big smog-entrenched, heat island of a city in an old rambling falling apart van with no air conditioning. Falling apart is one thing. No air is another. The lungs suffer. Of course, not knowing if your vehicle is going to start up when you cut it off…
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Godzilla in Fisher Price Land, Episode 12
The story thus far is, “Godzilla has been terrorizing the inhabitants of Fisher Price Land!” We are very near the end when this poignant moment occurs. At least I see it as poignant. H.o.p. is well on his way to getting down pat the art of the Youtube Wasteland Flick. We are on the tag…
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The road to illumination is filled with potholes
H.o.p. (batting at an old earring I’d pulled out and worn today): What’s that? Me: It’s a building. H.o.p.: No, it’s not. Me: We were driving along, I saw it on the horizon, thought what a great building, plucked it and put it on my ear. H.o.p.: I’ts not a building. Me: Sure it is.…
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More absolutely useless information that should probably be kept to one's self – Exhibit 15,456
Back in March I started trying to open the Duracell double A battery recharger package. It’s been rough. Am I gratified that today I finally succeeded? No. I was determined that nails and teeth should do the job but having worn through them, today I broke out the scissors and eventually the circular saw. That…