Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Mad Men: the series

Thanks to early wakefulness, I discovered they're re-running "Mad Men" during the pre-dawn hours on Sundays. Since I didn't start watching the series early on, I never got some of the angles of the story, which didn't stop it from being interesting. To those who may have missed it, the setting is in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Medical Experiments... (homegrown variety)

After years of increasing misery, being trapped in my own bathroom and unable to leave the house - even to do yard work - until my morning bout with "gastric distress" was finished, I heard someone on a morning talk show describe her own symptoms and issues. It turns out, she says, it was Celiac... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 8, 2014

Sonny Day...

A couple months ago son Joe and I went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel, arriving half an hour ahead of the Sunday a.m. rush. He'd invited Guy and his not-wife, but they had some other plans. We looked at photos of little Kaitlin, Joe Junior's two-year-old on his smart phone, talked about how cute she... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 7, 2014

This n that

Tuesday at The Center, Bea arrived with a fresh new haircut. She's one of those women who still has plenty of hair, and it's still dark brown, barely sprinkled with gray. She has some kind of retina problem though, and has to get shots in her eye from time to time, which makes me squirm just to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

It's garbage day... and recycling

So I'm getting out in a minute and hauling those giant tubs to the curb. There's an amazing collection of junk in the garbage can, including a rusted horseshoe dug up by the fence builders. I think Clarence kept the long square hand-forged nail as a little momento. I probably should have nailed the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

De fence, she is no longer an offence to my tranquility.

Jim came by yesterday with Clarence and The Kid, set the gate posts, hung the gates, cleared away the rest of their debris. Later, Got a brief call from John at the hall to see if the fence job was done I told him the crew was finally through with that rollicking "barrel of fun." Its doggerel... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 4, 2014

Monday. My favorite day of the week.

Most of the neighbors clear out by 8:00 and Quiet Town is all mine again. Mine and the busy little squirrels, the tomato thieves still busily destroying all my neighbor's hopes for home grown freshly sliced bits of heaven. I don't think he used all of the mint tea bags, because they proved to be no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Blog #2. Before I Run Screaming Into Traffic..

Phone call from Calamity Jane. Negative Nan. Ain't-it-Awful Annie. Calling to check up on me. (am I coming to her daughter's wedding shower?) Haven't heard from you in a dog's age. Forty-five minutes of blow-by-depressing blow of soap opera details of relatives and friends of hers I've never met,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Progress?

The WWB (writers without Borders) gals met Friday night. Without me. After that time a month or so ago when I left after waiting for them nearly an hour, I decided to give the group a good letting-alone. Plus, which, my connection between computer and printer has failed (another failure to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate..."

Line from "Cool Hand Luke," starring Paul Neuman in the title role. It wasn't his line. He was a convict, the phrase was uttered by the cruel head guard (played by Strother Martin) whose mission in life was to break prisoners and make them obedient members of the prison chain gang. Even in other... Sign in to see full entry.

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