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I’ve never eaten smelt. I saw a sign for a smelt fry yesterday but wasn’t tempted to stop. Perhaps had my heart not been so fleet for a Fayze’s omelet, I would have given smelt a chance. I’m...
I've stopped counting.
words, laps, money. I haven’t stopped doing but I’ve quit adding up totals and marking them down and pretending they mean anything -30- Anyone know what 30 at the end of something means?
Three non-solicitation phone calls today - so far
None were for me but I did manage two conversations before turning the phone over to Jim. For the record - Jim’s high school friend Rich, local Democrat woman with detail of county convention, a...
Just got wordle on my second guess.
Brings me up to 82% and makes me wonder what I’ll do with the rest of my day. -30- for now.
Movie - The memory keeper’s daughter. I promise I won’t do it again.
I regret playing tricks. Who said I was a nice person? 171 divided by 866 rounds up to 20%. Still a good book. Paul Auster’s 4321. Sunny day, towards the end. Sixty laps so far. I anticip...
Longer one this time
It’s 3:15 am. Plenty of time to do pretty much anything. So far I’ve made coffee, done a puzzle of collectible Czech dolls, dealt with the dog and put off Wordle. Any of you into Wordle? =...
I take a lot of pills. I'm not unhappy about it.
I went a lot of years taking none. They aren’t expensive and I don’t have any trouble remembering to take them. I have a discovery though that I like. The pharmacy takes back the empty contai...
new idea
I’m thinking of learning to write short entries that will fit entirely in the preview so you won’t have to click on them. Like this one.
my friend, mr. cummings
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Gracie
Turns out it was a few months ago. I just got it in the mail. She still looking good though - if the angle and the light are right. Like the rest of us.
Countless
39,420,000 Thirty nine million, four hundred and twenty thousand minutes. That’s my life, rounded off. I got the idea from the short story in my second New Yorker, the one with the blue cover wit...
Sometimes
Anita Scudder has a new name now. She’s remarried and we can hope and assume she is happy. We assume she is a decent person because she married our hero and after they were divorced she didn’t ...
No excuse...
Pretty sunrise. No excuse for missing it today. God sent his son God sends his sun. As far south as it goes Give the tilt a whirl. Daisy Buchanan always waited for the longest day. Maybe afte...
Free pocket psychiatry
hemingway/c/66770https:// btw - Are you aware that Noritake has a china pattern named Hemingway? It’s quite pretty. https://www.replacements.com/china-noritake-hemingway/c/66770 Oh and here’s a...
Anyone remember this?
September's 1st grocery trip
There - I know I had you on tippy toes of expectation. Well, I went to Fareway, my local store, and I spent $111, and I will write the number on the calendar. Trip was remarkable perhaps as ...
Tuesday Thumps Gently
Here we are The last Tuesday of July. We lap the days Time is all we have And it is plenty. I read some poems And a short story I ate cottage cheese And a sausage Milk and coffee, ice. I share th...
Acronym
M ake A R ound Y oyo or W hat O f M ental A cuity N ever I s N ot T oo H opeful E ver M anaged O n O ne N ight
Oh the poor Loggers....
Jim subscribes on line to the LaCrosse Tribune and reads/checks it every morning. He knew that Biden was going to be in SW Wisconsin the other day but not that he would be in LaCrosse. I think...
On a scale of one to ten,
how happily married are you? Private notes. I’ll average them. Those of us who aren’t married, can giggle. Or weep, depending.
Enough Renoir?
Here’s enough. 1549 of his paintings. Enough nudes. Enough flowers. Enough fruit. Enough landscapes. Don’t feel the need to look at them all. Take a few minutes. If you like them, come bac...
The clothes are fabulous
Morality play to end all morality plays.
Bette and Barry, plus some cetera
PLUS!!! Dick Cavett cuter than fuck in a tuxedo!!! He and Bette read a scene from one of her movies. Carnes gave her gold and platinum records to Davis who hung them on her wall. I hope Carne...
Sweet
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Book Description
Just a few words that don’t mean anything.