December 2009
1 post
Hey Achilles, what's up with your foot?
Good morning Boys and Girls. Checked the official surrogate “mood gage”, this morning and there it was, plain as day on the dial, just as I feared. It’s a simple set-up I fabricated from an old water meter a few years ago. It’s powered by a connection from a nine-volt battery, through a mood ring I bought at a flea market for this very purpose, then to the mechanism from...
November 2009
1 post
Bitterly-born bargains...
Good morning Boys and Girls. Across the street this morning, a couple of houses down, a woman is setting up for a garage sale. Most garage sales around here seem to run Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday, but this morning, Sunday, there she is, getting things ready.
Yesterday, both she and her next-door neighbor had one, but so far today, I haven’t seen her neighbor setting up....
October 2009
2 posts
A memory from long ago, playing itself out in...
Good morning Boys and Girls. A memory from long ago… I walk along a busy road in the dark as rain falls. I pass through an underpass, with water gathered in a wide puddle at its bottom. There is a sidewalk along there and its raised just enough to be above water, but it’s too close to the road for me to avoid being sprayed by every car that passes. I curse seven cars during the...
Sharp nails...
Good morning Boys and Girls. In what’s been a strange confluence of computer purchases and sales over the past month, I added one Saturday simply because it was too great a bargain to ignore, and as a result, I learned - again - how true it is that men and women just plain think differently. Friday was SweetLady’s birthday. My job, being the loving, caring, gentle suitor I am, has...