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Showing posts with label Dear Diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dear Diary. Show all posts
Jul 30, 2014

The Thousand-Dollar Morning

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There aren't many  days when I blow through $1,000 before breakfast. It all started with New Dog Libby whose food supply was down to 4...
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Jul 15, 2014

James. Clean Up Your Room RIGHT NOW

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.. .and do a good job! The threatened punishment for outright disobedience or a slap-dash effort was severe and credible. "Or I won...
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Jun 23, 2014

See? Saw

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"Hitachi,'  I believe, transliterates as "rice hulls with a dragon-shit binder, carefully injection molded." But perhaps ...
Feb 26, 2014

Singing to the dog

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A man with a shelf of books and a curious mind is never bored. Except maybe sometimes, rarely, he might be something like bored. I blame i...
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Feb 24, 2014

Terminal ballistics, hamburger heaven, and a load of bull

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I learn from my friend that a 9 mm hardball round at point- blank range fom a big bovine forehead just "makes him mad."  It took a...
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Feb 7, 2014

The most wonderful Wednesday ever

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Four days and a wakeup. Then it's the Wednesday of the Three Blessings. Two of them are sure things, as sure as any temporal thing c...
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Apr 8, 2013

Dry-fire your way to misery

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It's a coincidence on a par with His Ineptness uttering two coherent sentences on the same day.  Two bunged-up firing chambers on two ...
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Apr 2, 2013

It takes a Smith and Wesson to Beat the Sugar Shack Blues

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The main problem here is a feeling like I'm getting to be a liberal hippie with a Gibson knockoff strapped to my 10-speed, looking for a...
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Mar 27, 2013

Into the wild blue yonder

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My youngest and her man are soon to be airborne, off for a few days of frivolous Walloonery in the zone of the Napoleonic Code where habeus ...
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Mar 25, 2013

It helps

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Sunrise,  March 25, 2013 (annotated); Ergo, 10:19 a.m.:
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Mar 15, 2013

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A certain 777 has zoomed by Gander Cente r and is chit-chatting with air controllers at O'Hare. The most important man aboard -- just sp...
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Mar 6, 2013

Yesterday's loaf

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I found a nice recipe for 100 per cent whole-wheat bread.  It was even better when I decided to substitute butter for the vegetable shorteni...
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Sep 9, 2012

Sunday catchall, loophole edition

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The 50-dollar Winchester 97 has a new home. If my negotiating skills are up to it, the proceeds will cover most of the adoption fees for a ...