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mostly personal anecdotes where I sometimes try to be humorous

(maybe not always, Not everytime, but sometimes)

  • TV vs. East Texas

    I have a lot of great reasons I haven’t been writing, most of them boil down to: hangnails, barometric pressure too low, lint on the chair, you understand, but let’s face it – one of the big reasons is that we own a TV. Why am I not outside, milling about, having adventures I could…

  • Morning People

    I could try and give some lip service (or “typing” service) to “generalizations”, but let’s just cut to the chase – morning people are insane. All of them. I’m not a morning person. I don’t like the morning. I can’t stand the overly chipper, hyperactive, I-drank-my-coffee-with-a-dash-of-speed invigorated types that assault my nerves with their ready-to-serve…

  • Facebook

    I’m now one of the millions on Facebook, Twitter (where according to my friend Brandi I “Tweet”), Flickr, Classmates.com and MySpace. I came to the sites honestly (peer pressure combined with a dash of morbid curiosity – not sure why it’s morbid). Facebook having been the most recent of my “social networking” experiments. I really…

  • The Second Page

    So, I’m obviously stuck – uninspired – what have you and the journal is now hiding under a couple of books I got for Christmas. You know, the one I can’t write in because of my First Page anxiety? Jay had this brainstorm, though. He said I could actually skip the first page and start…

  • Domain Here I Come

  • My Writing Process

    I’m not sure what process everyone else goes through when they write; I tend to wait for inspiration, compose it in my head and then try to make it to the computer before it all disappears. That’s worked pretty well, except the last few times I felt inspired, it was 3am and I also happened…

  • Mean!

    So, I may have had someone convinced that the only way to gain my forgiveness was to give me cash. It would have been funny except for the bit where they were actually scrambling through their wallet and apologizing for not having any money on them. They even asked if they could pay me later.…

  • Haushaltung

    Guten Tag! Es tut mir sehr Leid, aber mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht. Aber… Ich will etwas sagen Wenn Sie kein persönlicher Freund sind, dann werden Sie auf die Website nicht zugreifen können. Schaffen eine lange Liste imitierter Namen und schickt per E-Mails Adressen wird nicht helfen. Fühlen Sie sich jedoch frei, den blog zu…

  • January 10th? Anyone?

    I’m having one of those moments where I’m pretty certain I’m forgetting an obligation. So, this is my plea to you (because I’m old and my brain doesn’t always work the way I’d like it to): if I’ve made some sort of plans, commitment, arrangement, scheme, agreement to do something or be somewhere and you’re…

  • I Resolve…

    … to toss aside Hello Kitty and have a new focus for April in 2009! (I love you, April! Keep on Twittering!)

  • My Battlestar Friends

    Don’t forget about the BSG Webisodes before the premiere (January 16) like I did. Episode #7 comes out tomorrow at noon. Plus, by virtue of being behind, you get to repeatedly see the latest trailer for the Underworld Movie – Rise of the Lycans. Sure, the first five times I saw it, I was all…

  • A Rant for Lynn; A Story for Tony: Tech Support

    Tech Support Fact vs. Beth: I hate calling tech support and when I do call, I’ve moved beyond “Tier 1” and likely need someone who isn’t flipping through a book looking for a script to match what I’m saying. I need a “real” tech support person, not a glorified telemarketer. One of our hotshot IT…

  • Christmas 1975

    Christmas 1975Originally uploaded by Big Blue Mess I don’t remember many Christmas’ – just flitters of images – heading to my aunt’s house to be with the rest of the family – the children’s table at Grandbuddi’s – cranberry “sauce” making that sickening sucking sound as it fell out of the can – dressing up…

  • Where’s My Christmas Card?

    You’re not getting one. Sorry. The truth of the matter is that I went card shopping this year and bought the most amazing and unique couple of boxes of Christmas cards. They were COOL! You would have loved one. I would have even written: “Merry Christmas!” and depending on how well I knew you, I’d…

  • Scott Griffiths: November 27, 1946 – December 21, 2008

    Scott Griffiths: November 27, 1946 – December 21, 2008

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