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

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Vadim...

"So, how do you keep busy in retirement?" Vadim asked me a couple weeks ago. He's the dentist's assistant, an emmigrant from Ukraine (or was that Croatia?). He reminds me of my grandsons, taking hold of life and shaking it - not just sitting around gaming and smoking. So I said I do a little... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

At the senior center...

Some years back, when Fang's second wife had told him not to let the doorknob hit him in the butt on his way out, he lived in an apartment in a subdivision across from the Walmart. For a while he'd take a daily walk, about a block and a half, and then come home again. He liked walking past the day... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The family sense of humor... just a bit Brit

On Friday morning I got a call from Robin - my "baby" girl. "Just wanted to let you know I'm out of surgery and everything's okay," she said. "I'm on my way home. Feeling a little groggy, I probably shouldn't be driving." "You're driving!" and before I could sputter and spew and tell her to pull... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 26, 2013

Photographic evidence...

It's not a crime scene. But on FB yesterday son Guy posted the projects that have gone on at my happy little nest this month. There was the front yard as it was - lawn sloping down to the sidewalk, my front walk set off center from the front door, the front steps and handrail. Then came the shot... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

It's the background music country song, wailed in a nasaly pitch along with a guitar and a sad violin that tops the playbill at Girls' night out. This is followed by any number of somebody done somebody wrong songs. A girl and a couple of her friends sit at a corner table, a small clunky candle in a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Toby's Visitor

Toby had a headache. No wonder, what with Wolf pacing and sniffing at the cracks between the boards above Toby's cozy burrow. It wasn't really a wolf - this is the city after all and much deadlier creatures than wolves held this territory. The creature he called Wolf was a dog, one of those who... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 23, 2013

The Ghost of Garbo...

"I vant to be alone!" she says in that sultry accent, looking provocatively over her shoulder in a cloche hat, blonde hair perfectly coiffed, perhaps waving a cigarette in a long black holder. She was a prime example of Hollywood's art deco era, when the movies became talkies. Whether or not she... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Nitty gritty grout day.

Guy came over to grout the tile, but could not seem to work with the float. In case you're not a tile-setter and are unfamiliar with the process, you start out with something called mastic. You spread a coat of it on the wall with this flat wide ladle-blade that has notches on one edge and a handle... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

It's gonna be busy next week.

Next Tuesday's my first moring as a volunteer at the community center. Wednexday I have the dentist in the a.m. and there's a writer's group meeting scheduled for the evening. And Thursday I'm due at Great Clips for a perm. And that evening, looking my best and with the proper choppers to enjoy it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Correction

Dentist or his appointment scheduler made a mistake. No extraction today, just a fitting of the partial, and an adjustment to it after setting it in place. He wouldn't go ahead and do the extraction, even though I'd stopped my blood thinner prescr for a couple days. Next week, he says. No room in... Sign in to see full entry.

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