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

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Monday, May 4, 2015

It's not me, it's YOU!

Turns out I didn't do something to the remote. Charter cable went out. Apparently it was just at the time the fight of the century was about to start - I understand it cost an arm and a leg to watch it on cable, but I wouldn't give a nickel to see a couple guys whale away at one another. Lots of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Editing...

Got to talking to a neighbor a couple days ago, he asked to read my old novel "Waltzing With Zombies," which I haven't looked at for nearly two years. I got started reading it and got quite a ways in before I started correcting little grammar glitches. I was still in my jammies, didn't stop to fix a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 1, 2015

About the planter box...

My brother John’s a kind of mechanical / carpentry savant. He’s been taking things apart and putting them back together since before he ever went to school, and has the ability to draw a perfectly straight line exactly the length he wants it without using a ruler or other measuring stick. He once... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

What if?

What if, instead of giving some overpriced landscaper my life savings to make a pleasant little bit of Eden out of my back yard, I just make that my fitness program and git 'er done myself - with a handyman to do the heavy lifting? Doesn't that sound like a plan? So Tuesday after my shift at The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Found in an old journal...

BLUES (OF TWO MINDS) A solo trumpet wails smoky blues, a melody we've never heard except in dreams. Bushmill’s has softened our resolve, warmed the lower chakra, fanned embers of love long gone. This music wakes that sensation we always wished a man would learn so as to soothe the female soul. A... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Who are you? What makes you tick? (and tic)

Years ago I was a big fat sucker for those personality quizzes that appeared in ladies' magazines. I thought most of them were a bit shallow and I was certain there was no psychologist behind them, no Freudian or Jungian expertise. Things like "What your nail polish says about you." or "How to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 27, 2015

As for the Edwvl Story Project...

On We My sharing spirit has slipped into a well of ennui whose walls are slick stones that cannot be climbed. They ensure the swim continues. I can see light at the “end of the tunnel” promising ironically there is above the rim a butterfly dancing on a sunbeam. But I’ve lost interest in fonts or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thank you so much for your kind offers, but...

I've got a handyman in mind - he'll work for time & materials at a reasonable cost. While he's at it, I'll have him change out the ceiling fan I bought last fall. Son Joe was to change out the one that's there as my Christmas gift, but he's a busy guy... I've just about decided to sell the house and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 26, 2015

High Bid on the Back Yard Project

The company that formerly did my yard maintenance, Garden Kingdom, has finally gone too far. Bad enough they charged nearly $40 a week to mow my little postage stamp of a lawn and take up the leaves - and then left the last leaf fall up to me in the end. Now he gave me a bid you wouldn't believe to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 25, 2015

E'vl Story Project, part 2

So this one particular Saturday morning I dropped Fang off at Printing Service and headed for town. There was this really nice laundromat at the edge of the business district, on St. Louis Street. It was in the second block east of the town's most exclusive residential neighborhood. There I was,... Sign in to see full entry.

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