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Wandered back from the wilderness in Life as we know it
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...
Lovely, oh so lovely out in Life as we know it
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...
Missed it by that much in Life as we know it
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...
Turnaround in Life as we know it
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...
Slow-speed chase in Life as we know it
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 ...
Dollar store find in Life as we know it
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...
Off day off in Life as we know it
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...
Fell off the hoarse in Life as we know it
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 ...
Show pony in Life as we know it
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...
Still alive in '14 in Life as we know it
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...
Confounding gerbils in Life as we know it
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...
Is OpenDiary trying to drive us away? in Life as we know it
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...
Updates in Life as we know it
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...
New plug in Life as we know it
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...
Pulling the plug in Life as we know it
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...
Scattered thoughts in Life as we know it
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...
Left shoulder, right shoulder in Life as we know it
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...
Actual news of a waffly nature in Life as we know it
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...
Yet another good job prospect in Life as we know it
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 ...
Good cause in Life as we know it
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...
59 is the new 39 in Life as we know it
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...
Twen in Life as we know it
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...
One hour in Life as we know it
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...
Caught in an omission in Life as we know it
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...
Wheeling in Life as we know it
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...
