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

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Late Start today - weird internet issues again.

Our Writers Without Borders group met at BAM, and focus of last night's meeting was Chris's short story, one of several that will be part of her Master's in Writing thesis. The assignment was to take a story by a different writer and create a new one, following the original plot but with different... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Problems! Internet lags and the dreaded whirling thing-a-ma-jig...

Couldn't get my home page open. Barely got into Blogit, but it was limping along like a buggy with square wheels... So if I managed to read something you wrote and my comment didn't show up, it's all the fault of a website too busy to handle all the traffic (maybe it was MSN?) all I know is that is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Birds, Airports, Bats in the Belfry

It's dangerous for gulls and geese and other feathered fellows to flock freely across airliner flight paths. The FCC - or is it the NTSB or the BBC - is training airport managers how to fix things without resorting to foul murder. They're replanting fields that naturally grew the grasses that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 23, 2013

I'll try to get over there on Sunday...

I've come to recognize son Joe's "I'll try" phrase as code for "not gonna make it." There's still the baseboards and door trim in the bathroom that need to be replaced, a couple bits of drywall in the basement he'd ripped out. Even though I know the code, couldn't entirely suppress my disappointment... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Party Game - Storymatic...

At the writer's group get-together yesterday, we reversed the usual order of business. At previous meetings we've done the presentation (video) first, had a snack along with it, and then retired to the front porch for discussion. (hah!) Yesterday, since the weather was heavenly the first one waited... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Sixteen Tons

"Ya load sixteen tons and whaddaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't ya call me, cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store." Tennessee Ernie Ford sang that song, geez, it must be 50 years ago now - the working man's anthem. It goes with the sayings 'a day late and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 20, 2013

A Woman's Heart

The people who hang out at the Community Center are mostly Euro-Americans, the kind of hard-working folks who've made it thus far by keeping on in the face of adversity. Veterans of old wars, women with surgical scars, cancer survivors, mothers who've lost their daughters, husbands now widowed. Good... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

The end of Gengulphus...

long story short, he got back from the Holy Land, went to pieces (with a bit of help from his faithless slut of a merrie widowe and a foppish young clerk), pulled himself together and ended up on the dinner table, reviewed by all manner of high officials and princes. Nobody could recognize the face,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Gengulphus, part II

Then oh! what rapture, what joy was exprest, When 'poor dear Gengulphus' at last appear'd! She kiss'd and she press'd 'the dear man' to her breast, In spite of his great, long, frizzly beard. Such hugging and squeezing! 'twas almost unpleasing, A smile on her lip and a tear in her eye; She was so... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

A Lay of St. Gengulphus

Gengulphus comes from the Holy Land, With his scrip, and his bottle, and sandal shoon; Full many a day hath he been away, Yet his lady deems him return'd full soon. Full many a day hath he been away, Yet scarce had he cross'd ayont the sea, Ere a spruce young spark of a Learned Clerk Had call'd on... Sign in to see full entry.

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