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| Reading In The Dark |
| Rants, Raves, Pet talk, Pop culture, Politics, proud Democrat. I have angles to the left of me drug dealers to the left here I am stuck in the middle of an urban wetlands with a leaky roof and a wet basement. |
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| Tick, Tock
I turned the computer on and went to t... |
| 2007-08-17 13:06:00 |
Tick, TockI turned the computer on and went to the other room to, um, do something useful - not at all like watching TV or anything like that, and a while later I went back to the computer and I couldn't get the screen saver to move. it just stood there not spinning at me. I tapped the keyboards a couple of times and moved the mouse around an gradually my ISP start page appeared. I didn't want to look. How many times did IE load? Take a guess, a wild guess, now keep in mind it wasn't nearly as bad as it has been in the past - and it's not a virus. I have Norton and I run a couple of different anti-spyware programs too.My old computer did this to me as well. I think it's just meanness. 24, I came in and there were twenty-four IE's unhappily running simult...
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| Randomness
Remember when bottles were glass? Rem... |
| 2007-08-16 13:06:00 |
RandomnessRemember when bottles were glass? Remember how heavy they were? remember collecting money by recycling them? And then everything went plastic, that cheap bubble -y plastic, not the sleek plastic everything is now, the faux glass. You pay extra for plastic that looks like glass. Sprite has always been good at that. A Sprite bottle looks like a sprite bottle. It's the dimples.it doesn't matter how glassy the plastic is formed to, you can drop it from the counter and it still isn't going to shatter. You aren't going to break it. You also don't see as much broken glass around either. Pretty much the only thing that still comes in glass are beer bottles and the odd condiment. I r...
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| The Inevitable Emmy entry
You thought you have es... |
| 2007-08-15 13:06:00 |
The Inevitable Emmy entryYou thought you have escaped this when I was on vacation when the nominations came out, you thought you were safe. Ha. I can still magically have opinions about TV shows I do not watch and Actors I don't even recognize, even weeks after the nominations are announced.Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy SeriesRicky Gervais - ExtrasTony Shalhoub - MonkSteve Carell - The Office Alec Baldwin - 30 RockCharlie Sheen - Two And A Half Men Ricky Gervais is over, he was funny but now he's just British and as much as audiences love brits, it's more like puppy love and we have moved on. Tony Shaloub already has a couple of these and while I like Monk, Shalhoub isn't really doing any heavy lifting over there. I am the only person in America who does not think Steve Carell and The...
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| Picture it
I was talking to one of my co-workers ... |
| 2007-08-14 13:06:00 |
Picture itI was talking to one of my co-workers the other day and we were talking dogs and she said jokingly “Not a cat lover, huh?” she didn’t know I had a cat! I was horrified. She assumed that Dogger was my only pet! She had this idea because, well, if you didn’t know better,what with the life sized portrait of the dog, you might not even notice one 4x6 picture of my cat, the main message you take from my cell is that I have a dog. I mean, there aren’t a lot of Dogger pictures around, just the life sized portrait, the one of her smiling on the beach, the one of her grinning at the camera and one of The Kitty, looking glum. I think the misunderstanding can be traced to the life sized portrait, it sends messa...
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| Rove to step down
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Karl Rove, ... |
| 2007-08-13 13:13:00 |
Rove to step downWASHINGTON (CNN) -- Karl Rove, President Bush's senior political adviser, will voluntarily step down from his White House post at the end of the month, senior administration officials said Monday. Of course, I would have prefered he left in chains, on his way to a federal prison - but I'll take what I can get. It would also be a really nice b-day gift if he could make his exit around the 29th.Full story here...
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| Foods for thought
This is my week to feed Smokey.... |
| 2007-08-13 13:06:00 |
Foods for thoughtThis is my week to feed Smokey. Despite valiant efforts to convince him otherwise, which included two of his Friends giving up a Saturday morning to “walk” him from the old building to the new building and then repeated trips to campus to make sure he had stayed there - Smokey did not want to move with us. His reasons for avoiding the new building are many. He’s very old, he's all ready fought for and won the territory he has now and he isn’t going to abandon it, and the large fox that hangs out around the new building. I think if the reporters are seeing a “large” fox that they may actually be seeing a coyote. But I’m not sure, I remember reports of foxes at the other building as well as coyote sightings and those didn't scare...
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| Beasts
It’s 104 degrees. It is very warm. It is t... |
| 2007-08-10 13:06:00 |
BeastsIt’s 104 degrees. It is very warm. It is too warm to walk the dog it is by extension, too warm to go to the park. I didn’t even have to say anything to Dogger, sh was like “You know, I understand. I think I’ll just stay splayed out on the floor here and you do whatever you need to do”. As to the splaying, I would have thought that linoleum would be cooler for doggy splaying than wood but apparently, the wood is the cooler of the two surfaces. Also, The Kitty owns the kitchen and I’m pretty sure that Dogger has just learned that the wood is the safer alternative. It’s cool because she keeps hers.Before work this morning I wanted to get something out of my car, I didn’t get it out because I had pulled the car too far forward and so I c...
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| When small is not cute
There was a baby possum in... |
| 2007-08-09 14:51:00 |
When small is not cuteThere was a baby possum in my recycling bin this morning. I didn't take it out because possums are sharp and pointy and they hiss. Should I have helped him/her out of the bin, despite his/her sharpness, pointiness and hissiness? Is there going to be a posse of pissed of possums waiting for me in the pm?...
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| Whine
It’s hot.
I’m hot.
Dogger is hot.
The Ki... |
| 2007-08-09 13:06:00 |
WhineIt’s hot.I’m hot.Dogger is hot.The Kitty is hot.The dogs at the dog park were hot.And so I decided to do some work outside. My Mom got me one of those tree face kit things, you know, the ones you see in catalogs? The ones that cost too much? Well, they also sell them in stores and in stores they don’t cost too much. If you buy yours at Shopko they hardly cost at all.AnywayI found out that I didn’t have any nails in the house. I have a hammer the size of a three year old - I so need a super-sized hammer, I do so much home improvement. I think I bought it when I was still in an apartment. I must have had big ideas, or I watched too much Trading Places. Memories...Anyway. Nails. I needed nails. I was on my way to Lowe's when I went by Family Dolla...
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| Old, Elderly, Ancient
Do you know what is totall... |
| 2007-08-08 13:06:00 |
Old, Elderly, AncientDo you know what is totally addictive? Pop Up Videos . Watch it through a couple of videos and try to look away. You can’t! You have to know more about the Angel is a Centerfold video! I mean, when was the last time you even thought about the J. Giles Band, much less what celebrities went to the school they used as the set for the video shoot? (e.e. cummings and the guy who played Doogie Howser's buddy on Doogie Howser, M.D). When was the last time you even heard Angel is a Centerfold? how about watched the video? years ago? and you have never thought about the video. Until you watch Pop Up Videos and then you are trapped, trapped by the trivia. If y'all have any questions about the Angel is a Ce...
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| Tap, Tap, Tap
We've been in this building for fiv... |
| 2007-08-07 19:09:00 |
Tap, Tap, TapWe've been in this building for five weeks and we still do not have our candy machine! Gawd, and now also pissing me off? It is getting really, really, hot in the building. I'm getting bad, old building flashbacks. So, no candy machines and it's hot. And so far? No Popsicles! What kind of place is this?...
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| BeepBeepBeep Damn.
I haven’t been at the mercy of... |
| 2007-08-07 13:06:00 |
BeepBeepBeep Damn.I haven’t been at the mercy of an alarm in three weeks, well, there was that wake up call at the hotel but it didn’t mean that I had to wake up right then. I haven’t as much as looked at a clock out of anything more then mild curiosity in almost a month. Do you know how nice it is to not care about what time it is? To have it not matter? I mean, the luxury of getting up whenever you wake up and going to sleep whenever you go to sleep? BeepBeepBeep . Damn.The one upside to being back is the promise of air-conditioning. It was as least as hot up there last week as it is here this week but here we have air-conditioning. I took Dogger on our first walk Monday night. It was hot. Shockingly. Dogger didn’t even want to go for a walk, she lay down in the drive way and sta...
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| Hey!!
And then it got hot again... I mean, like r... |
| 2007-08-06 06:01:00 |
Hey!!And then it got hot again... I mean, like really, really hot. But, I'm back!! Kind of, in that "Just-back-from-vacation-gawd-I-am-sooo-tired-and-I-sooo-much-to-get-done-and-where-are-my-shoes?" way but Wow, Tuesday, boy howdy! I see photobloggingarama! Let me tell you something about Marquette you may not know, that does not photograph as well as the local flora: You can go buy Vodka at the grocery store, they have beer and wine too, but I was floored to see the hard stuff there too....
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| Hello!
Still vacationing, still enjoying vacation... |
| 2007-07-26 01:51:00 |
Hello!Still vacationing, still enjoying vacationing. It is very hot - not in the way the rest of the country defines "hot", but "hot" as defined by those living without air-conditioning or adequate cross ventilation. Those living without air-conditioning or adequate cross ventilation don't need air-conditioning or adequate cross ventilation because they spend most of their time curled up in front of the fireplace, and, in fact air-conditioning and adequate cross ventilation would be at the very least, contraindicated most of the time. Sadly, not at this particular time....
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| Break A Leg!
I bathed Dogger and then I bathed my... |
| 2007-07-14 04:05:00 |
Break A Leg!I bathed Dogger and then I bathed myself and now I had these wet towels and I said "I should launder these now so I can dry them and put them away before we leave for three weeks", and then I forgot all about them.10:30pm, I remember them. I decided to go put them into the dryer. They are soaking. Literally, the washer is full of water. It will not drain. I have to remove the soaking towels. I am stuck with an arm load of very wet towels. I drop them to the floor, after I put them momentarily on top the dryer (because I am very tried) I don't think dryers like being wet. The towels are causing my basement floor to take on pond-like characteristics.The washer, now empty, cheerfully begins to spin.I wait for it to finish, I redeposit the soaking wet towels (Like three towels, t...
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| Mow, Mow, Mow His Yard
I just mowed the drug deal... |
| 2007-07-13 13:06:00 |
Mow, Mow, Mow His YardI just mowed the drug dealers yard. I didn’t do it because I’m a nice person or because I’m a team player or even because I had the urge to help out. It wasn’t altruism that mowed that yard, it was disgust. The drug dealer has left the building , although I saw a light on inside that didn’t make me think the house was entirely empty. The drug dealer left because... depending on who you ask : 1. “The police came and now he can’t live there anymore” (his six year old nephew)2. “The house is being foreclosed” (The neighbor on the other side of the crazy woman)3. “He was put out, he may be living close by though”” (my nice neighbor)Whatever the reason, he did not leave on purpose. I didn’t notice a mountain of c...
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| The Cats' Pajamas
Things that makes me tired:
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| 2007-07-12 13:06:00 |
The Cats' PajamasThings that makes me tired: Any discussion of "Wither Smokey", we caught him, he got him inoculated and then we let him go. He was around for a couple of days and then he bounced back to the other building. Probably the only home he has ever known - and then we took him away from there again and he hung around for a day and he went back home. And now we have the angst Where is Smokey? Have you seen Smokey? I checked the other building and we wasn't there either!, He drank a lot of water when he was here, I bet he has kidney damage! It's making him confused, demented even! he needs us!, The week end is what did it, He was here on Saturday... I had no idea so many people frequented the building parking lot o...
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| 2007-07-12 03:24:00 |
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| La, La, La
Wow how did I go from being so far ah... |
| 2007-07-11 13:06:00 |
La, La, LaWow how did I go from being so far ahead to being so far behind?Things to do, stuff to pack, lists to make, lists to lose, stuff to remember, stuff to forget.I went by Wallyworld to check on Doggers collar. They have an embroidery shop there and I decided to give them a chance in the Sew The Rick-Rack On The Dog Collar Sweepstakes. Those who win, get to be the Official Sew The Rick-Rack On The Dog Collar venders, this is could be a profitable gig for them as Dogger spends a lot of time at the dog park and the dog park is hard on collars. Especially pink collars with rick-rack sewn on them.I went by the store to 1) See if the collar was ready and 2) reinforce the idea that the collar has to be done by Friday . I don’t see why it’s going to take seven days to sew 10 inches of r...
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| Scooter and Bush only thought he had it hard
Chin... |
| 2007-07-10 17:29:00 |
Scooter and Bush only thought he had it hardChina gets tough on crimeBEIJING - China executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog on Tuesday for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash, the strongest signal yet from Beijing that it is serious about tackling its product safety crisis....
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| Live on Earth
Damn, I'm hungry. They haven't move... |
| 2007-07-10 13:06:00 |
Live on EarthDamn, I'm hungry. They haven't moved the candy machines to our new building yet and I'm dieing! I know that junk food is wrong, but dammit, I'm hungry and office supplies, while high in fiber, aren't really as satisfying. Trust me on this.I'm not even sure that I have change for the machine, it's just the idea that if I did have change then I could get something out it. It's about hope. No candy machine means no hope! They are leaving me hopeless! Also, if there were a candy machine in the break room, and I was hungry, I could go look at what the machine had and then reject what it had as being bad for me. I could not only not eat the bad food, I could earn self esteem points for recognizing the badness of the food and being strong and not eati...
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| Live Earth
Did ya’ll watch? Do you know if you di... |
| 2007-07-09 13:06:00 |
Live EarthDid ya’ll watch? Do you know if you didn’t watch that you most likely stomp on baby rabbits or at the very least, shoot old men in the face - At least that’s what Move On told me in so many words in the many emails they sent me to remind me it was happening and that I should really go to a watching party properly get the whole Live Earth Experience.Whatever.I’m trying to go on vacation next week and I have things to do. Shoes to buy, for instance. My first stop was my favorite shoe store. It turns out the place you can buy strappy sandals is not the first place to look for hiking boots, the closest I found was a pair of hiking flip flops. Cute, but no sale. Moving on.Th...
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| Smokey gets in your van?
So, about a year ago, ma... |
| 2007-07-06 13:06:00 |
Smokey gets in your van?So, about a year ago, maybe even more than a year ago, they told us that we needed to start cleaning out our offices, throwing away our crap and getting ready to move because this time was for real. Yes, it was a year ago because then as now, I am about to go on vacation and last year I left for vacation relieved that they had moved our move again, now it was supposed to be in September . And then it was October and then November and then “Well, it was supposed to be December but what with the holidays...” and then it was supposed to be January but it rained and the basement flooded and then it was middle of the March and then it was definitely April and then the first week of May and it ended up being the last week of June.But anyway. All that time we talked ab...
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