Today I Turn Twelve

Damn but the days pass quickly now. I live mostly in a constant state of fear or frenzy. The job, as poor paying as it is, demands much. During the course of my seven and a half or eight hour day (depending on which day of the week it is) that I get to sit…

If you like PDQ Bach, you’ll get the title. If not, it doesn’t matter anyhow. But spring seems to be a more ephemeral experience than usual this year. I woke up to seventy degree weather, with the promise of ninety degrees before the afternoon ends. This is not the April I was expecting, to say…

A plane down in Queens. I know better, but my mind jumps ahead of events. It’s telling how much I (and others) are still affected by September 11. Never before would I have immediately put terrorism at the top of my list of differentials. But I recognize this as a weakness in myself, and am…

Hit by lightning.  Again.  I feel like the frail off-screen distant relative of some major TV character.  You know the one.  Every weekly episode has a new throw-away one-liner.  “You remember Elaine —  Maude’s uncle’s wife’s cousin?  She just had her gall bladder removed.”  “She just got hit by a car.” “An albatross knocked her…

OK, I got a bee in my bonnet a couple of weeks ago. My car, a Ford Escort, isn’t that old, but isn’t that new anymore either. I’ve recently had to start shelling out some medium sized bucks to keep the car in repair. New tires, a new headlight casing … that sort of thing….

I was checking my site meter yesterday, as I am prone to do when I’m bored and feel like poking around a bit, when I found this URL in the visit detail section as one a referral page: http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deardiary.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fviewer.pl%3Fdiary%3D12117%26entry%3D10861344 Am I the only one who has never heard of “BlogShares” before? As near as I…