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Friday, May 4, 2012

Thank You Jackie in Customer Service... You saved my bacon...

Talk about stupid tech tricks... Yesterday I changed my email address on my Blogit account. I haven't been able, due to my own inept ways, of accessing the email for screen alias (pat_blackhorse). No doubt there's a lot of junk mail built up, but I haven't visited that mailbox in a month of Sundays.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Shuffling papers before Mother's Day

Sometimes I print a news story or an email, intending to put it in a notebook or use it for a blog or as a pinny little point that fits into the fabric of a story in progress. And then something else happens - a phone call, the doorbell, the sudden imperative for a fresh cup of coffee, and that... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Writers and stupid tech tricks

Monday nite the group met. Barb (the new member) was there when I arrived, going through a portfolio of art she'd drawn & images she was putting together for a collage. I know B from a couple years back, she's the one who drew an old-fashioned little girl to go with the Lucy Amanda stories. (stories... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Peanut Butter Paranoia - conclusion

"Peanut butter! You're too damned good for peanut butter? What in freaking hell is so bad about peanut butter?" Elaine interrupted. Her voice cut the atmosphere of the Dairy Queen like a knife. She’d risen off the plastic seat and across the table to get in Virginia’s face. Her motion shoved the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Peanut Butter - While We're on the subject -- PB2

Your regular Jif costs about $4.25 for fifteen servings of 2 tablespoons 190 calories each, with 130 calories as fat. A new product -- PB2 (powdered peanut butter) - costs about $5.75 for 15 servings of 2 tablespoons 45 calories each, with 13 fat calories. Which means a slice of whole grain toast... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Perv Update --

As Judge Judy would say: "What were you thinking, you stupid schmuck? A man simply doesn't act like that. Grow up, grow a pair, or you're... done for!" Now "done for" is not the word I was thinking. But this is kind of a family show. Few days ago I wrote about the teacher, husband of a friend, who... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Custody Dispute Gone Bad

Last night's early news in St. Louis was all about the abduction of a little boy from Children's Hospital. He was there for treatment of a serious heart condition, and had been discharged with a portable drip to medicate him for a day or so. He had just been put to number one on the transplant... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Character Study of a Facebook Friend

Have you heard the term "old soul"? Sometimes when you look in a baby's brand new face, she looks like a little old man -- bald, toothless, looking past you at something you cannot see, perhaps remembering what heaven was like. Well, this is isn't about that kind of old soul. It's about a kid of... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Olives, Kalamata: an acquired taste

It was accidental, really. Norm had dropped by the office to turn in some paperwork, and I was sad because my kids were leaving that afternoon to spend Christmas with their dad. It would be my first Christmas alone since the divorce, and making the best of it had begun to wear thin. Norm's wife had... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

I'm catching up on the classics...

All of TV these days has become a cacaphony. Manners, waiting one's turn to speak, all that's a thing of the past -- talk shows are like big drunken arguments among people who have opinions on everything and the facts on nothing. They remind me of holiday get-togethers in a family of folks with... Sign in to see full entry.

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