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Knows How to Make an Entrance


At some point we all have little embarrassments in our lives we’d like to forget, you know, like that time I was up for some award at school and as I get up my grandfather slyly says “Don’t trip!”–I think you can guess what happened–or slightly bigger embarrassments, like having to wear ugly clothes donated [...]

My Sister Is a Freak of Nature


So the visit with my sister and her kidlets went great, and her (re)impressions of California can be summed up as follows:
We seem to have fewer fat people
The sun is much brighter
Nobody wears real shoes
Our highways sparkle in the sun
We had some adventure around San Francisco before heading south to my county, including visits to [...]

Applicant a Heathen and Refuses to Learn Excel


Today was my first job interview in about five years. I had applied for a job across town that sounded promising; according to their description, they were just some people that needed help with webby stuff in addition to a bit of clerical stuff. Webby stuff! Hey, that’s me!
But the first email reply I received [...]

Been Bizzy


Been hauling dirt over to my new garden space, in fact if you want to get technical about it, I am hauling shit. Good shit, though. One more session and I will be ready to put a number of root-bound, dying veggies in the nice warm sh–I mean, dirt. I wonder how long it will [...]

Walking Dead


So let me begin with a totally original blog opener: sorry for the lack of updates. For the last month or two I’ve been dealing with severe fatigue. It started when I went on birth control pills, and even though I ditched them weeks ago, the crushing fatigue is still with me. I tested negative [...]

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