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It’s been 3 ½ years since I’ve made an entry here. I wandered back because a friend from the much mourned Open Diary made contact after about that same gap and mentioned posting here recently. O...


February 13, 2014

Lovely, oh so lovely out

I was going to thumb an entry while waiting of a ride after work, but just remembered it's the warmest day we've had or will have for quite awhile. So instead going outside to soak some rays. Gue...


February 11, 2014

Missed it by that much

I saw the annoncement at OpenDiAry middle of last week but couldn't get to a computer where I could download my diary until, as I found out, the day after that site closed. Not sure how much I lo...


February 05, 2014

Turnaround

After Thursday's brouhaha, home life improved greatly. We watched the Sherlock episode Friday then I saw the Groundhog Prom was to be Saturday night. Candi hadn't been before and was terrific i...


February 03, 2014

Slow-speed chase

This is much funnier now than when it happened, though at the time I felt like I needed a cigar to fit the Groucho image better. The prelude to comedy was I went to Walmart Thursday night while ...


January 20, 2014

Dollar store find

For one buck plus tax I got an autobiography of Jules Feiffer. Best bang for the buck ever! I latched onto Feiffer's cartoons in the 70s and was delighted to stumble onto a play of his being do...


January 20, 2014

Off day off

My team at work found out Friday morning we were off today (Monday - MLK Day) unless we had overtime lined up. "I thought you knew that," said our team boss. No, we thought it was the more ma...


January 06, 2014

Fell off the hoarse

History repeats itself. About his time last year at my first call center job, my voice later to within a half hour of the shift's end. Today exactly the same. I barely croaked my way through the ...


January 03, 2014

Show pony

Now I'm thumbing an entry during a slow close to work. Not a medium conducive to prolonged rumination on world affairs. I wonder what my thumbed words per minute might be. I read about a progra...


January 02, 2014

Still alive in '14

I haven't been transferring my OpenDiary entries over here because of diminished access to internet. But I'm still alive! I found out though OD is blocked on my employment site, PB isn't. (May...


September 25, 2013

Confounding gerbils

That's what a classmate in a psych class would call confounding variables. In this case it's the popup ads I was getting only during OpenDiary access yesterday. Today it's not happening, and no...


I've had to close three popup windows just on the way to beginning to write this entry over at OpenDiary before then copying it in here. Twice it was telling me the game I'd selected was unavail...


September 20, 2013

Updates

One update is downloading the IOS 7.0 thingy on the IPhone4. It just said there were 8 minutes remaining, after running for awhile. How says 47 minutes remaining. Update on the time: Now an h...


September 19, 2013

New plug

The confrontation with Dour over pulling the plug on internet service went surprisingly well, in the sense of there being no blood or splintered furniture involved. Just some bitter argument and...


September 18, 2013

Pulling the plug

We've had a mystery of late concerning data usage on the home system. The provider notified us we exceeded the limit the first month we had our iPhones, which also was just after Dour quit his j...


September 17, 2013

Scattered thoughts

NaNoWriMo is coming up. In about 2005 I did it the first time and made the 50,000 with the start of a mystery novel I really like. I loved going to the coffee shop to write for a few hours in th...


September 17, 2013

Left shoulder, right shoulder

You get the reference, the angel on one and devil on other, giving advice. The angel would be on the left shoulder, of course. Left: Now that you have just two weeks before starting that new...


September 13, 2013

Actual news of a waffly nature

Or is that "wafflely"? I could say "flip-floppy" but at some point someone will suspect me of Republican leanings. Anyway, the flip was accepting a job offer on Tuesday. I had a good interview...


September 06, 2013

Yet another good job prospect

Well, a good prospect. Not so much a good job. Still better than some. Better, for example, than the one I talked with a crew boss about by phone the same day I went in for an interview about ...


August 29, 2013

Good cause

Some lawyer I am. I've been going along just assuming I couldn't qualify for unemployment benefits until 13 weeks after I quit my job because, well, I quit. And there is a 13-week disqualificat...


August 26, 2013

59 is the new 39

In the sense of an age to get stuck at. I have a year to decide whether to put a hold on further advance of the tens digit. I spent my birthday so far: -- Trying to get to sleep while the Dour...


August 22, 2013

Twen

I know "twen" has been used for "twenty," as in, "I'll give you the dime bag for a twen--inflation, yo." I propose repurposing it to refer more generally to people in their 20s. As in, "He went...


August 21, 2013

One hour

Of course, I've had endless time to write stuff here, to update or explain or apologize or excuse .... But for right now I have an hour. So it will be the usual scattershot approach. "Scatters...


July 25, 2013

Caught in an omission

I went on a bike ride again today. Had to put some money in the bank to cover autopays, and thought I'd ride a trail I haven't been on before near the bank. Didn't tell Candi I was doing it. D...


July 24, 2013

Wheeling

This first entry is my latest entry over at OpenDiary under the same name. Context readers there would know: Candi is my live-with ladyfriend. We also live with her 20-year-old son. He quit h...


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Pretty much recording stuff that goes on day to day, though probably not close to every day.