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I am feeling stretched and strung out. Having a day or two a week to take “off” (aka do DIFFERENT work instead of my usual demanding job) was certainly a relief from the 40 odd days straight, b...

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I have a love hate relationship with the basin wrench. It’s one of those odd tools that you don’t reach for often, but in the situations where you do need it, it is a life saver like no other t...

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Brutal day. I am THIS close to feeling like I fulfilled my obligations in bailing both of my brothers out with a solid week and a half of THEIR work. Always the same story with them. With Matt...

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In the early 90s we would spend weekends at the construction site in the UP that was my dad’s cabin-in-progress. I’m talking rooms with old comforters hanging as doors. Floors of chip board wi...

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It’s plain to see, the sun won’t shine today. But I aint in the mood for sunshine anyway. Life is such a perpetual paradox. Today was a challenge. Woke up in this grey shroud void of meaning. ...

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I love these dry, late spring nights. They make me run a little wild under the hood. The lilacs are in bloom. Every square inch of town smells like them. I think it’s been this way every year ...

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I have this very cherished collection of mid to late 80s memories of being up late with my dad in the glow of the TV, just along for the ride for whatever he felt like watching, just happy to ...

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Bit of a wake up call this week after getting a little too comfortable opening up gas lines and filling up basements with natural gas immediately before sparking a lighter. I was in the damp...

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On top of my usual 8 hour work day today, I had to figure out something for mothers day. I didn’t have it in me to wish my sister’s in law happy mothers days, but I got my mother and grandmother...

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My brain is toast. I’m on my 20th 9+ hour day of work in a row, and I feel like I might be halfway or so to completion. Still a week or two away from being able to take a breath and get a day o...

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I don’t know anyone that seems to have their priorities straight, who hasn’t also had to manage significant grief in their life. The people squandering their time on cynical entitlement and pett...

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“According to psychology the greatest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, pitied, admired, or even known.” I keep bumping into people I haven’t seen for a decade or more. Peo...

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Before I went radio-only in the kitchen I used to do vinyl while I cooked or did dishes. I have some great records, but for whatever reason, more often than not it was Anne Murray’s Greatest...

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My good buddy and I were sitting on his porch chatting last night as the evening got deep. He’s heading back west next week, ending roughly a year of nearly constant back and forth visits. We go...

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My senior year of high school was fucked. Expelled from one school part way through, and required at the next school to play a whole bunch of credit catch-up from spending too much time whacking...

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There are two types of people in this world: Romantics, who love humanity but are delusional by nature, and refuse to accept it for what it really is. And rationalists, who mostly hate humani...

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Gary and I both agree that 3rd Eye Blind’s popular breakup album from the late 90s was something of a musical miracle that holds up today better than almost anything else from that specific genr...

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Ended up making stew late into the evening tonight. A blues program on the radio kept me company. Local show, from the nearby college that broadcasts half NPR and half local programming. “The J...

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Almost rage-quit my life today on several occasions. It was the theme of the day, in fact. The theme for yesterday was “I’m in everyone’s way.” Starting with a morning stop at one of my favor...

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Every day, the second I get home from work- sore and exhausted, I have to pay attention to my two needy cats before I can do anything else. Norah is a tortie, and extremely boisterous and food ...

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I have always been extremely interested in the peculiar dichotomy of terror. Not horror, even though it’s tough to tell them apart. Horror carries the potential for shock and disgust, but terro...

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I have these odd moments throughout the day. Specific flashes of disassociation in which I am momentarily transported across time and space to some quaint corner of the world inspired by dista...

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I have to stop being an idiot. I have this inner team spirit thing going in my brain, in which any system or group or game I happen to be involved in, I like to see things happen as evenly and ...

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Mostly, this one is on the backstory. First I must confess that I have been absolutely in love with Heart, and Ann Wilson in particular, since high school. I think she has the most powerful...

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Our land is filled with mourning, from Bourbon to Malone And many wives and mothers are weeping, sad and alone Adapted from an old civil war poem turned folktale by Allison Kraus and Union Stat...

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