For Franny

I think I’m pulling out of whatever attitude I’ve been copping for the last week. Someday I’ll get it through my head that it’s OK to simply be confrontational about something, and get it talked out. Like with the dishes. Do I tell the professor I’m getting pissed off? Noooooo, I just wash the dishes…

Two thousand eight hundred and twenty-three believed dead. Three hundred and forty-three of them were firefighters. Many were killed instantly, but perhaps over a thousand of them survived the initial impacts. More than three hundred of them took advantage of the extra last minutes granted to them to phone or email to the outside world,…

Reality television participants, People who don’t get the concept of “personal space”Circle I Limbo DMV photographers, The guy who invented SpandexCircle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind Advertising jingle writersCircle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow Shoppers in the “8 items or less” line holding 10 items, Drivers holding cell phonesCircle IV…

Today the world is an emptier place. My heartfelt condolences to King Duncan’s loyal court. Tonight an empty throne is sure to bring only pain, but tomorrow it is my sincerest wish that it remind those who loved him that he was given as royal a life as any who may have borne a crown.

I’m feeling perverse. They’ll never answer me, but I sent this to our friends at WhizBang! Labs: Sirs: I maintain an on-line diary at deardiary.net. One of the services deardiary provides is a hit meter that lets me know who has been visiting my diary, and how often. Over the past week, I have had…

The third straight day of rain … I suppose it’s needed since this has been one of our driest springs on record, but the grey days are just playing into my mood. The Professor is teaching a night class for the first half of the summer. It’s Tuesdays and Thursdays, until 10:30. I’ve been chiding…