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"I could perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principle design was to inform you, and not to amuse you."
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More definitions. in A small but passable life.
special snowflake The Special Snowflake (Also referred to as one with the “Special Snowflake Syndrome” or “SSS”) is a person who believes they are different and unique from everyone else because...
Active? in A small but passable life.
The past week I was certainly more physically active than I’ve been in months. Monday morning I went out walking for a couple of hours just to get moving. Tuesday I did the same, but Liam Dog wen...
No NoJoMo here! in A small but passable life.
I finished reading “The Image” by Daniel Boorstin. He published it in 1962 and it is amazing how prophetic it is. Some quotes from the book: “The imposition of power on people’s lives.” (His def...
Electoral College picks worser. in A small but passable life.
I was on the interwebs until nearly 3am last night. I’d watch one episode of “Shameless” (I’m at the end of season 3 now!) and then switch over to another tab running RT’s live election coverage ...
Worse or Worser? in A small but passable life.
Well, today is the day. A vote for worse or worser? Works Word redlined worser. I like it. It stays. I took a few days to read two new novels and got severely behind on my bookmarks here on prose...
Visiting graves. in A small but passable life.
Yesterday morning while be-bopping around the interwebs I stumbled upon a website, findagrave.com. I took the bait. The first data field I filled in was for my paternal grandfather. And within a ...
Greatest show on Earth! in A small but passable life.
A shitshow that is. The thing I’m amazed about is that no one seems to realize that there are no “best” friends of neither him nor her coming to the defense of character. There are spouses and ch...
Pondering, again. in A small but passable life.
The weather has finally turned Fall-like. The first day of Fall was a ninety degree day. Now it has cooled off into seventy degree days. And the nights are now cooling off. The last several morni...
September 18, 2008. Eight years. in A small but passable life.
Yesterday marked the eighth anniversary of this current bout of unemployment. Eight years since the factory closed and I clocked out for the last time. The plan was to max out the twenty-six week...
A rough week. in A small but passable life.
It’s been a rough week. A year ago September 5th was when my little sis died. She’s been in my thoughts quite a bit. So, I’ve tried to keep busy. A week ago, Saturday before last, I found an ema...
That plan, again. in A small but passable life.
Liam Dog and I were up earlier than usual yesterday, before 9am. I put on a pot of coffee and got dressed in street clothes, getting ready to actually go somewhere. After one cup of coffee we too...
Finished the book. in A small but passable life.
After I posted the last entry I realized that I’d forgotten about Tuesday, when the youngsters took me out to eat for my birthday at our favorite hometown barbeque place. Delicious. I finished t...
New show. in A small but passable life.
This feels strange to be scribbling an entry at nearly 11pm but if I turn on the laptop in the morning I usually end up wasting the whole day by not being able to turn it off. Anyway, last Friday...
Testing mental acuity. in A small but passable life.
Sunday night I set the alarm clock in my head and went to bed at the usual midnight. 7:32am I was awake. It seems as if the mental acuity is off a couple of minutes, but still functional. I got u...
I found this amusing. in A small but passable life.
Just the three of us. in A small but passable life.
Tomorrow morning marks a week that we’ve been left at home. We as in Liam Dog, Asscat, and I. The youngsters took off last Friday morning for a week or so in Colorado. They are on a mission. Les...
Three months now. in A small but passable life.
I really need to stop thinking about this upcoming election. An election with the two worst candidates in American history can have no good outcome. The weather continues to be hot and humid. T...
Welfare for grocery stores? in A small but passable life.
Let’s throw some truth out there. Total SNAP benefits in 2014 were $74.1 billion, benefiting some 46.6 million people with an average of $125.35 for each person per month. Never mind the people w...
Still alive. in A small but passable life.
What I would really like is to step outside into fifty degree weather. It has been six months since I’ve experienced that. I miss it. It has been very hot and humid here. Today may be the first o...
Still reading. in A small but passable life.
All is quiet here in this, the second whitest city of its size in the USA. Cops haven’t shot any unarmed people here in a couple of years. And that poor guy lived, rolling away in a wheelchair wi...
Storm is a brewing. in A small but passable life.
I tried to get an early start again yesterday but failed. I mean 8:30am wasn’t too late but I was trying for 7am. I went down and put on a pot of coffee and fed Asscat. When Liam Dog and I went o...
Such is life. in A small but passable life.
I decided to try something different today. Yesterday I didn’t roll out of bed until noon. So pathetic. There was no need for that twelve hours of sack time. I wasn’t finished with my ‘morning’ c...
Daydreaming. in A small but passable life.
I did get the front lawn mowed Wednesday. And then it started storming and raining which has continued since. Four days now, off and on. 1.17 inches in the last seven days. The back yard. The cle...
Settled routine? in A small but passable life.
I’m still reading the summary of philosophy book. It’s amazing to realize that most thinkers had the whole thing figured out long before the big three Abrahamic religions were fabricated basicall...
Stupid humans? in A small but passable life.
The number one google search in Great Britain the day after the vote was “What is the EU?”. Stupid humans. It took me three evenings to watch the thirteen episodes of season four of “Orange is t...
