a quick missive

Dear Reader,
I thought it only polite to let you know that no, I have not dropped off the face of the earth, but have been very busy doing, well, stuff.  This “stuff” has taken all my time, and it has been varied “stuff”, and interesting “stuff”,  but it has been cutting into my blogging time.  [...]

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Off Again

ATTENTION:  This is the unposted draft, which due to popular demand (Okay, Christi asked politely) is now being posted.  It was written before my big trip to Las Vegas, and upon further viewing, is maybe not as amusing as I originally remembered.  (You know how no-one else thinks your kids are as cute as you [...]

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Lost and Found

So I’m cruising around my blog and I see that I have “2 drafts”.  Hoping for beer, I open them to discover that one is a duplicate of a previously published post, and one is a post that I never did publish.  I deleted the duplicate, and toyed with the idea of publishing the other [...]

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Just like Fish

My mother always said that company is like fish- it starts to smell after a while.  Well, I’ve never had company that stayed that long (the dog hair tends to scare them off), but sadly, Judy is heading home this afternoon (as soon as the plumbers finish putting in three new toilets.  My life is [...]

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House Guest

I have the best company right now.  She stays out of the way, doesn’t complain about the coffee, and we didn’t even clean the bathroom before she got here.
Coincidentally, we share a name.

She’s visiting from my friend’s mother’s house for a while.  I have a project to do and Judy is here to help.  Cryptic, [...]

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