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Well, I’m starting to peek my head out from under my recent obsession with the easy accomplishments and bright colors of the world of Azeroth, and get back to the other parts of my life. I’ll probably be fine now for a few months.
Except that I’ve had the flu, so even though I’ve been up to doing some reading, I haven’t done a lot of writing yet. In the meantime, I highly recommend that you visit McSweeney’s. It’s a wonderful compilation of mostly clever stuff written by — well, I have no idea who writes all of it, but it’s darn funny , anyway.
You might start with Catcher In The Retirement Home, in keeping with the recent theme of aging. This is a sort of sequel to Catcher in the Rye, in which Mr. Caulfield finds himself an elderly man, and not that much changed, really.
So, it’s been a while since my last post. I won’t apologize, because I hate it when people do that.
There are several reasons, but the real main reason is that I have been in a World of Warcraft addiction phase. Read the rest of this entry »
Work, which usually hums along at a pleasantly steady pace, has been crazy busy the last couple of weeks. I got a promotion, though, so that’s cool. But then there was a minor disaster (not my fault!) and the crisis management has been intense. When I get home at night I’ve pretty much just been crashing in front of the tv. So all I have for now is some random thoughts and observations. Read the rest of this entry »
There was a time when I would, once in a while, watch the Jerry Springer show. I don’t watch it anymore, because I can’t believe it is anything but staged. But back in the old days, there were moments like this: Read the rest of this entry »
So tonight, I just hit Play, and John Lennon happened to be in the CD player. And I fell even more in love with him than ever. I know this sort of thing is supposed to happen when you are a teenager, but back then I wasn’t allowed to listen to rock and roll, and I really didn’t discover Lennon until shortly before his death — which I remember like it was yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, apparently my blog is a little short on big words, or long sentences or something.
If you were hoping for intellectual pretension here, apparently you hope in vain.
I’m in a pretty good mood tonight. Maybe that’s why it seems like a good time to post something that I actually wrote a few months ago in a fit (not uncommon) of melancholy. The thing is, melancholy isn’t that bad, really. Sometimes, it hurts in sort of a good way
Dang, I looked at the dates and it’s been almost a week since my last post. I was sick, as previously noted, so I was taking some medicine for that. And I happened to run out of some medicine that I normally take. So my head has been a bit garbled. Tonight I was brimming over with things to write about, but logistical problems kept me from the computer.
As a diversion from my lack of actual productivity, I will resort to the common blogging tactic of recommending other people’s creative work that I think you should experience. That should distract you until I get something written again 
. Read the rest of this entry »
As you can see, I’ve been spending less time writing and more time figuring out how to make this space look the way I want it to. See the nice picture? And the different colors? I even made my own widget, so you can send me email. (It’s a ways down on the left hand side …)
There’s a lot left to do. Technology is hard to learn when you get older. So, one step at a time.
Meanwhile, I was looking through Amazon for something today and got a great idea for a book. It will be really easy to write!
Title: Self-Esteem for Dummies
Chapter one: Don’t buy stuff from people who insult you. Put this book back! Don’t pay for it! No wonder you don’t have any self-esteem!
Chapter two: There. Don’t you feel better now?
My husband is a bit of a hockey fan, and he found this picture yesterday. It’s mainly a picture of a hockey player, of course. He told me which one, but I forget. But take a look in the background, where the red circle is. Is that a baby? Being hurled on to the ice? Is the baby that big of a fan? Or is the baby’s dad (one can only assume it’s not a mom) tossing the baby down to the hockey player — perhaps like girls throw lingerie on to the stage for their favorite singer? Is this common now?
Of course, that’s probably not it. That…would have been in the newspaper or something. Probably dad was just tossing his baby in the air — although the angle just isn’t right. It’s a mystery.
