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So. The guys came over to refurbish the exterior of our units at the townhouse complex. In the process they caused a lot of destruction, namely: 1. They destroyed my potted plant, Methuselah, that had been with me since 1996…. READ MORE
Twitter is crap. People call Twitter a “valuable tool.” No, a bottle opener is a valuable tool. Twitter is the magnet on the bottle opener that degausses your flash drive. With Twitter you get – what? – 175 characters to… READ MORE
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So I am restored to two functioning vehicles. Why does one person need two vehicles, you ask? How does that affect your carbon footprint on the earth? How can you afford two vehicles? And what exactly do you mean by… READ MORE
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Sometimes working for a newspaper sucks. You don’t get to sit back and enjoy events like today’s inauguration. You’re too busy trying to come up with local angles, scrounging for art, installing live video feeds and coordinating with reporters in… READ MORE
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I haven’t seen my friend Dale since we were in middle school. He’s married now, to Danita, and I get a Christmas card from them every year. It just arrived today. Danita included their e-mail address so I decided to… READ MORE
It was like climbing out of bed to discover that sometime during the night the sun had come out, melting just enough of the snow to reveal something you thought you had lost. In this case, a magazine that featured… READ MORE
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This morning I took Pavlov to the vet and she had The Talk with me. The Talk amounted to this: If at any moment after today I look into his eyes and decide he’s had enough she would support my… READ MORE
My friend Denise believes I should get out of journalism. She thinks I could make it as a fiction writer. Making it as a fiction writer has long been a dream for me. For the rest of the world it’s… READ MORE
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This Christmas I will have time to rediscover the spirit of the season. I won’t be shopping. Instead, I will be snug in my toasty house – until the madly spinning electric meter forces the thermostat down to 62 –… READ MORE
In this photo, Pavlov sits amid the ruins of tractor-feed perforation strips from my old Okidata dot-matrix computer printer. He loved playing with those strands of paper and usually created a huge mess. Photo by Del Stone Jr. — OK,… READ MORE