Category Archives: REALITY

Just an all-around tough day today.  Up to five band-aids so far, though only two are glass-cuts.  Two are cracked skin from the cold and glass-cleaning and one is a torn fingernail. Been trying to be upbeat about the end … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Aside from a hypertext project I haven’t been writing anything creative and aside from framing until Christmas, life sort of sucks right now.  Gotta get some New Year’s resolutions listed and then find someone to make them happen. (My usual … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This last week before Christmas, fortified with Sour Gummy Worms and a working stove, I put in long hours in the shop. Today, from 6:30 this morning until about a half hour ago, just before 10:00 p.m.  Tomorrow I have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Watched the movie She’s Having a Baby on TV yesterday and this line stuck with me; spoken by the groom’s grandfather in response to his wife’s protest that her grandson is "too young" to get married: He’s not too young.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So here’s why we need a complete overhaul of government–not just the people, not just the party, but a brand new direction because we’re headed to hell in a handbasket. Why’s the U.S. Postal Service going the way of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Pre-dawn, too dark to see, but it is sleeting out I know.  Sounds of crumpling cellophane; the frozen rain hits sideways from the northwest–the bedroom wall.  Sanders going by, and so it’s slippery ice, freezing as it hits the road.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

(Side note:  Am I the only one who licks the positive battery tip before putting them in the camera?  Does anyone remember doing the same to flashbulbs way back when?)

And so I cried when they gave Sofia one of the three gold $50k stars on the final episode of Kid Nation last night.  And I cried when all the parents came running over the hill towards their children.  And … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m sitting here crying because Zach was finally awarded a $20k gold star in Kid Nation. In other news, I found another propane company and within an hour someone came down to hook up my stove.  In the oil business, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not a good morning.  Banged my cut finger and got it bleeding nice and red again.  Then, armed with a my laptop in its shoulder bag and a cuppa coffee, took a flyer off the back steps and spun a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The heater broke and I am freezing here in the shop.   So I drink hot coffee.  The hot coffee does two things; warms me for a little while and two, makes me need to go.  Aided by the cold as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After fiddling around for five days about the missing ‘M’ in my name on my credit card, Home Depot finally approved shipment of my propane stove for the shop.  This morning’s email confirmed shipment and an estimated delivery date of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes ‘out of the blue’ means it comes from a logical but unlikely source.  Today in the frameshop my sales rep from one of the moulding companies came in and since we’re the same age and hadn’t talked in a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

More and more I want to cut ties to humanity when I see how it’s determined to dumb itself down. Australian Santas must change "Ho-ho-ho!" to "Ha-ha-ha!" to accommodate the idiots who believe this is degrading and offensive to women. … Continue reading → Continue reading →