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“So what were those fizzy tablets called? Alcatraz?†“No, Alcatraz is a small island in San Francisco with a prison on it.†“Oh, like in Harry Potter.†“I don’t think Alcatraz was in Harry Potter.†“Oh, Azkaban. Never mind. I’ve got it now.†“I think my head might be starting to hurt. Actually Alka-Seltzer would …
My daughter has some of my sense of humor. We’ve been out and about the last couple days and of course there’s Father’s Day stuff everywhere. With a smile on her eye, she looked at one rack of grilling aprons or something we saw somewhere, and she said, “So everyone who gets one of those …
My daughter has been fascinated by crows and ravens for a long time and she even recently got a crow call from the Big 5. We walked to school again this morning, and there were crows and ravens everywhere and she was complaining that she should have brought it along. I told her we should just …
It’s been a year with a lot of small but important changes. Sometimes the most impressive changes are the ones that are easiest to see – new house, loss of job, new pet, kid – but those sort of take care of themselves. They don’t happen all the time. For me, I find that I …
Since I work at home, I wouldn’t easily get snow days anyway, but I feel cheated sometimes when people around me are off and I’m in my lair hunched over a keyboard and pushing pixels around. My clients are still in New York City, and it’s 60 degrees there right now. Me, I have half …
I offer now my own Dave Barry style contribution to Murphy’s Law; nothing scatological need be implied by the title. I don’t know what cosmic law of attraction is involved, but as a mostly private person, I’ve found that the best way to abort a lonely fugue right at the onset is a quick trip …
I love living in New Mexico, and I love the seasons. Autumn has gently started; we still have mild weather and quiet nights, but the leaves are changing. It’s beautiful. I’ll trick myself into ignoring that it’s what precedes winter – not my favorite time of year – and enjoy what is usually a long …
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I’ve confirmed that a new generation of angst dreams have started. My family’s in them now, but I don’t know why it should change now as they’ve never been in them before. They still don’t cause the angst for the most part, just typical “But that’s not what I want to eat” type stuff. I’ll …