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440 million in Flash
A month or so ago PowerBall was up to $440 million (or maybe it was $140 million - I realize there is a big difference but if you're not going to win and I'm not going to win, it matters less) a...
To Do Today - Done Today in Lists
Pay property taxes paid and Jim's too. Nice conversation with an old old co-worker in the court house entry Work on fair book on one of the library's computers did it and talked to our local c...
Merry Christmas! *edit* in Flash
I bought this for Christmas one year. It was the 80's..... what can I say? The cassette tape was in a bin in the Pamida store. Gotta, gotta love this song... for it's pure evil. http://www.yo...
Wait till it's over.... in Flash
One day, one night Sky a million colors Earth texture changes We sit quiet and wait For ever taller tales From every smaller tellers When I love you Then I want you to know That that ...
Auchincloss *bit more* in The Book Book
I took Tales of Manhattan by Louis Auchincloss to work with me today. Like so many beautiful women (or at least like so many former beauties) she was instinctively, pointlessly if you wish, a ...
Out in the world.... **EDIT** in Secrets from myself
I need to make a new general book. I start an entry and try to find an existing book to fit it and none work. Misc. here we come. It's Sunday morning in the middle of March. I am waking up a ...
A flowchart.... (Gatsby and T) in The Book Book
It starts like this: I went back to 750 words of a year ago. Sometimes I do that - more so now that OD is gone. I'm looking for a glimpse into into who I was and how it was and how the weather...
Very quick... in These titles mean nothing.
The new writing box - the one I'm seeing right now is very minimal. Kind of like Scandinavian furniture. OK that's fine for now. I'm sure it will change again pretty soon. I haven't been writ...
Another one.... in The Book Book
July 10, 1991 Funny thing about the U.S. Constitution, we tend to pick out the parts we like and question the parts we don't like. And we're free to do just that. Take the Supreme Court for in...
Another blog..... in These titles mean nothing.
Take a look at this. I love it. http://hipparis.com/2014/02/28/lamour-parisien-10-signs-i-live-with-a-frenchman/ Men who like me are always telling me they can't have me. Silly in a way. B...
The best newspaper column I ever wrote in The Book Book
Notes from the Cadillac Ranch 8-21-91 Sometimes the biggest attraction isn't the one that was advertised. Cases in point. On Friday night the Clayton County Fair's headliner was a lively and ...
I'm reading..... in The Book Book
Willa Cather's Death Comes For the Archbishop on breaks at work. Dean and Me (A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan in the basement. Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero (Eminent Lives) b...
A year..... in Flash
... since I've had any soda. Or bought junk from a vending machine. Only purchase was a bottle of water when I hadn't realized I had an empty bottle in the car I could have filled at the water...
Another one in The Book Book
April 19,1995 Notes from the Cadillac Ranch There's a lot of history in the news lately. It's the 50th anniversary of important WWII events. Discussions of how to commemorate those events hav...
More randomness from the past in The Book Book
Notes from the Cadillac Ranch Published April 17, 1990 Our dog has a problem. I read once that dogs have lot of opportunities to be neurotic. Living closely with another species and not havin...
Random.... in Secrets from myself
I just transcribed three of my old newspaper columns - chosen by random dates by someone who is not me. As I was going through one of spiral notebooks that contain my old columns, I came across ...
This one.... in The Book Book
April 2, 1985 Publication date April 2, 1985 Notes from the Cadillac Ranch Two weeks into spring, let's take inventory. It must be time to put the ice scrapers away, to pair up the mittens an...
Another date between June 1982 and June 2000 in The Book Book
October 1, 1986 Publication date September 30, 1986 Notes from the Cadillac Ranch One of the minor areas of creativity open to modern society is the telephone answering machine . It allows us...
Pick a date between June 1982 and June 2000 in The Book Book
July 4, 1997 Publication date July 9, 1997 Notes from the Cadillac Ranch Knee high by the Fourth of July We had such a cold late spring that it didn't seem like anything would be knee high by...
Cat story - no photos in These titles mean nothing.
I don't think you can be any more slutty than a cat. The black one has been fucking her brother repeatedly under the table and elsewhere and now she's backing up with her back arched and her tai...
What I want.... in Secrets from myself
I want to be competent. I don't want to be the best, I just want to be good enough. Sounds simple.... but it's not. %%^#^^^^ I suppose I'm talking about work. I suppose that's obvious. ...
Larceny/partly from the Hell's Angels in Flash
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well… maybe chalk it off to forced conscious ex...
House dog! the coyotes taunt Gracie when she goes out to bark at them. You live inside. People feed you. You've been to the vet. You don't have to take care of yourself. You don't ...
Menus - Food - warning: way too much to read in Secrets from myself
Prologue - It's almost six am and I am at my mother's kitchen table - mine now of course - in my dark red fleece LLBean robe. I finally took a bath last night and blew my hair dry afterward. ...
