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All this talk of closed captions. How silly. I’m not hard of hearing. Why would I use closed captions anyway? In a word, Mom. In the few years after the storm, when I lost all that (oh so ultima...

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Tonight’s episode of “Vikings, the Closed Captioned Experience.” Another Episode, another bloodbath. Closed captions read: “BATTLE CRIES RISE TO A DEAFENING ROAR” Doesn’t that seem a rather cruel...

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I am currently watching a television series called “Vikings.” As usual, I have the closed captions on. Battle scene captions: “YAH!” “OOF!” “UNGGH!” “AARRRGGHH!” I don’t know why find that so abs...

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Vacation almost over. Sigh. Got very little done on the task list I optimistically set for myself. The Good - My sisters, knowing that I am severely limited on funds lately and would be doing not...

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I know that the internets are spying on me. I know that they’re gathering cartloads of digital data on me in order to paper my electronic life with adverts for any and every thing they think I mi...

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What with all the election and the conventions coverage, everyone is talking politics these days. I don’t really enjoy such discussions because they aren’t actually discussions. People either a...

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I haven’t been to the gym yet. Seriously, that’s wrong on several levels. I’m spending money I barely have on a service I don’t use. I need to exercise - ask the nasty little guilt monster strap...

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Despite grand intentions, I do not feel that I got much done yesterday. What I did accomplish: I got two loads of laundry washed and dried, ----- Though not all folded and none of it put away Cl...

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Today is the first day of my two week vacation. Cash strapped and debt-ridden, I have no plans for travel. Sigh. Recent events have pounded the British pound to lows not seen in decades. Oh, wha...

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Cats are obviously less intelligent than we with their walnut sized brains and their lack of opposable thumbs, but as a species of animal they aren’t all that unintelligent. We domesticated dogs...

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Here’s the edit and the admission. I’m an idiot. My life is so slow and boring of late that I have nothing to write about and still have the compulsion to write something anyway. (There’s also a ...

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Sunday morning predawn and I’m sitting at the computer doing the adult version of homework. I’ve brought home stacks of registration forms for summer school to transcribe. It’s work that I shou...

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It occurs to me, apropos of absolutely nothing, that the calendar is just wrong. Shouldn’t October be the EIGHTH month of the year? I mean look at the (Latin) prefix. For that matter, shouldn’t S...

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Quiet late night here. We’re all gathered in the study, on and around the big square table I use as a desk and work surface. The kittens are sleeping. Coco is just a foot or two away, draped ...

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Watching “Treme” a finished HBO series set in New Orleans just post Katrina. I missed it when it was being broadcast originally because I didn’t get HBO, but it’s showing on Amazon now, so, well...

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It’s strange how your mind can alter the elsewhere highly disciplined passage of time. Joy seems to disappear in an instant, while moments of “oh god, this is going to hurt” stretch out forever....

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Background info Rent is due on the first of the month. Tina, my tenant, prefers to drop the check (sans envelope) in my mailbox. Right now, my bank account is running very close to empty on a d...

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I have no idea where the word came from. I may have heard it anywhere, found it kind of shiny, and ferreted it away in my brain to have it pop up stripped of history for me to use later. I may h...

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An hour ago I was sitting on the sofa, unhappily concentrating on the physical discomfort which refused to let me put my mind anywhere else. The pain wasn’t a new thing, unexpectedly sudden. yes...

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Good Friday? Honestly, is there any other kind? Today, however, is a day off of work, so I’m thinking it should be called One of the Best Fridays. I appreciated a joke I heard the other day abou...

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March 23, 2016 - 1:56 PM, Nathe wrote: Somehow, someway I have lost my mind.... okay.. now that the peanut gallery has stopped laughing I’ll continue..... I’ve lost my physical notebook with all...

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The kitchen floor, like all the floors save the bathroom in this wreck of a house, is a hardwood stained dark mahogany brown. Don’t let anyone tell you dark floors are easy to keep clean. They a...

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I stepped on my electronic scale just a few minutes ago. “Lo” it said in little black letters. Now, I know it was telling me that its battery is on its last legs, but I ignore such warnings. For...

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“Miss Mack! Miss Mack!” D’marr’s hand is up and pumping like a piston from the third row of boys in Penance Hall (as detention in a Catholic institution is sometimes called). It’s a bumpe...

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The clock ticks away the minutes as I overwork diligently at my desk. It’s the same old story of too many tasks and not enough time to do them, but today I am strangely content. It is Friday m...

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