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  Noo Ock

  02.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am posting from Newark airport, which has added the middle name of “Liberty” since I last was here, shortly after 9-11. I arrived here on Monday and instantly laid down to sleep until Tuesday, as you do in New Jersey. When I woke up my mother’s house was snowed in: So I took some [...]

• General, Music

  Out of the Blue

  01.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m feeling unsafely optimistic.  If I were bi-polar I would guess I was entering a manic phase.  Instead I’ll attribute the mood to currently listening to Ash’s Meltdown, which surely deserves the credit. There’s also the circumstance that last week we had our triennial snowstorm.  Several inches fell, the city endured (though with the normal [...]

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  Bad things happening to good me

  01.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday we finished putting together an armoire.  As I said two weeks ago, after the first, abortive, attempt to assemble this devil (attempt frustrated because of crappily-rendered diagrams that caused me to ruin a dozen vital dowels that needed to be re-ordered), while wiping the blood and sweat from my brow, if Mrs wants any [...]

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  To Do

  01.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Confession: Since the beginning of the year I have been organizing my day using the Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007.  Other evidence of anorakness: my iPod and cell phone both have names based on artificial intelligences from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels, and the icon for the hard drive on my iBook is [...]

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  Labor Avoidance

  12.28.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  We have had electric toothbrushes for years and when they break down the effort expended to push the bristles across our teeth wearies us so and results are poor.  The blessed replacement arrived yesterday and finally do our teeth feel clean again.

• General

  Baby Jebus Born

  12.21.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Working in finance is thankless and dull, much like a coalmine without the black lung and cave-ins.  Our misery is unrelenting, save for the yearly grace of receiving Christmas cards from investment bankers one has never heard of nor done business with nor ever will.  But if there is a God in heaven or Dominik [...]

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  Mixed Signals

  12.20.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  A residential alarm user permit from the Portland Police requires an annual fee.  I am writing out that check and noticed that our checks have printed on them the image of a cartoon pig.  I had this done when ordering checks as a joke between me and Mrs.  I hope this doesn’t guarantee police non-response if [...]

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  Sinter Klaas

  12.19.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  For Christmas I have arranged for Mrs and myself to get matching “Team Dempsey” tattoos.  She will be so surprised. The dogs’ hides won’t show tattoos well; we will have the logo branded on their rumps. I have commissioned wee decals of the family logo that I will affix to the flanks of the fish. [...]

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  Black Friday

  11.24.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  When the pipe from the sink is clogged and greasy brown water is backing up into the dishwasher and then onto the floor and liquid plumber doesn’t work, the next step is to get under the sink and take pipes apart randomly until the clog is found and you’ve soaked yourself well. Then put it [...]

• General, Writing

  Possible Story Opening Inspired By Cat

  11.20.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “In the small hours of the night, I was woken by the noise of a cat trying to vomit on my head.  Thank God I was able to fall asleep again.”  Thankfully in this case said vomit did not land on me and the mess was contained and abated by swift de-contamination techniques.

Gryffyd Eamonn Dempsey

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