My questionable but sprightly engineer friend returned a couple of days ago from a family excursion into the wilds of his ancestral Nebraska, about which there was nothing remarkable but an unexpected side trip to a fossil bed.
That brought back memories — no, I am not really that old — memories, I mean, of being [...]
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Beyond The Pale
Posted in Music, Reading Matter, Uncategorized, tagged Ashfall Fossil Beds, Avalonia, Cambrian, Cretaceous, Eohippus, Geological eras, Gondwana, Isle of the Dead, Laurentia, paleontology, Pre-Cambrian, Rachmaninoff, Silurian, Tertiary on July 31, 2009 | 11 Comments »
T-Shirt Friday, July 31, 2009: The Real Man Test
Posted in T-Shirt Friday, tagged Animal Rescue Site, cats, Greater Good Network, men on July 31, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I picked out this shirt at the Animal Rescue Site for my cat-loving engineer friend to wear to the gym. On reflection, I got one in a smaller size for myself, vowing silently never to wear it at the same time; some things are just sickening.
I am quite high on this site. You click on [...]
I Can See The Light
Posted in Life is Dumb, tagged belladonna, eye exams, glasses, improving with age, myopia, polycarbonate, thick glasses on July 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Way too much of it, actually. I have just made the Year’s Most Dangerous Drive, to wit, the three miles straight down a suburban two lane road from my opthalmologist’s after having gotten the annual hit of belladonna for the ocular inspection.
The bit of corneal dystrophy I have got inclines me to slight dazzle anyway; [...]
Someone Call A Toe Truck
Posted in Life is Dumb, WTF???, tagged hexes, Neosporin, toenails on July 28, 2009 | 13 Comments »
This keeps happening, goddammit.
A quarter century ago I did a one and a half gainer down a flight of cellar stairs at around two in the morning (I had to go to the bathroom, it was down there) and in addition to making the wall ring when my head hit and spraining my lumbosacral joint, [...]
Scary Things You See At The Gym
Posted in The Gym, WTF??? on July 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A big-gutted biker veteran, calves shaped like the local auxiliary water tower, chest swept by a beard the same dingy brown-grey color as his hair, both ratted as if from 200 miles of helmetless riding… sporting lavender camo cargo shorts.
And that’s the mo’fo that owns the place.
Firing My Fox
Posted in Life is Dumb, WTF???, tagged browser freeze, Firefox, Firefox 3.5, fix the damn thing already, if it ain't broke don't fix it on July 27, 2009 | 18 Comments »
I didn’t fire it exactly, but I did send it back to repeat a grade. I hate it when people Newify and Improve things and stuff starts falling out of the undercarriage or rattling under the hood.
I thought maybe it was just me and I had set something wrong. I thought it was my Zone [...]
A Cup Of Pink Foam
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »
HealingMagicHands threw me a curve last night by awarding me this:
Holy Shit! What do I do now?
The rules for this rolling award are passed down as follows:
1. Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
2. Pass the [...]
A Heart Of Stone
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
A couple of years back, my father’s widow — his second wife, who is hard to think of as a stepmother being six months younger than I am and all — got me that all-American fast-footwork birthday present, a bookstore gift card. She is a sweet thing if literal-minded and I was pleasantly surprised. I [...]
Curb Service
Posted in The Gym, bodywork, tagged circumduction, dystonia, hamstring pull, hamstring tear, Johns Hopkins, nerve compression on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Every so often my oldest and totteriest cat gets acupuncture — the vet makes a house call, charging less than I do for a massage, and it perks the boy up no end. Every couple weeks I also meet a friend for lunch, and on the days when both things happen, it squeezes my workout. [...]
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Local Color And The Body Politic
Posted in Ripped from the Headlines, WTF???, idiots, tagged democracy, drunk driving, online commentary, police chiefs, the common man on July 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mama Sled has a friend who does a bit of volunteer work with the police department ‘tother side of the county line, and we were burning up the phone lines early today over the news that her police chief got taken up, as the boys say, for driving drunk and rear-ending someone right where the [...]
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