~Friday~ Shortly after I read the article, 19 outstanding words you should work into a conversation, which was in the November 30 edition of The Week, I decided that I was going to make up a story that uses all 19 of those words. Well, here it is. The first version has the words, alone, … Read more
~Monday~ I slept until around 10:00 this morning, and then did something very, very unusual: I skipped breakfast and started my day with lunch. Perhaps in honor of our nation’s birthday, I had two (of those leftover) grilled hot dogs for breakfast, and I got my caffeine from a Diet Coke instead of coffee. I … Read more
~Saturday~ I slept in this morning. Oh glorious weekend. I devised my blog entry from yesterday, which included the blow-by-blow of my Time-Warner Cable high speed modem upgrade customer service fiasco, and afterward I cut and pasted all of it into a feedback form on their website. Later in the day I received this response … Read more
~Thursday~ I was late getting up again this morning, but my lunch was already made and the coffee had finished brewing by the time I got downstairs, so I only had to make my breakfast sandwich. I caught the Wolfline #9 Greek Village bus at Gorman, near Avent Ferry, which arrived at 8:30. It was … Read more
~Friday~ I enjoyed beautiful weather at the city bus stop this morning, arriving there at 8:13 and boarding the bus at 8:26. Hot Mess Driver was running late this morning, but at least she had the oven turned off. A lady sitting across from me was wearing what looked like a nurse’s smock, although it … Read more
~Monday~ I picked up the Wolfline #1 Avent Ferry bus, where the shoes of two girls waiting for the bus caught my attention. Let me be clear that I do not have a foot fetish, but if I did, I certainly would admit it, and if I did, I’m quite sure it wouldn’t be for … Read more
~Tuesday~ I was up at 6:00 this morning, because I got to bed at a reasonable hour in a rare occurrence. And I was quite productive before heading to work: scanning the cover of a Tour de Friends booklet that contains the AIDS chain that I want to get a tattoo of, scanning the sequence … Read more
~Thursday~ I drove over to the Avent Ferry post office to mail two items—one birthday card and one thank-you card—before heading to work this morning. At the corner of Kaplan and Gorman, I caught the 8:04 Wolfline #9 Greek Village bus, on which there were 7 riders in addition to myself when I boarded. At … Read more
~Saturday~ Although it had stopped snowing by morning, its remnants were all about. With my morning coffee in hand, I opened the blinds on the windows facing my back deck, to a scene that prompted me to write this haiku: No sound on my deck. Is that the white noise of snow? Beautiful morning. While … Read more
I submitted this essay to AARP (quit laughing!) for a competition they do in each edition. They give a topic and ask for essays of 400 words or fewer about it. It did not get published, so I’m publishing it here, myself. Take that. What I Really Know About Television I really know that I … Read more