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I spent much of the weekend in the following do-loop: 1. Pick stuff up2. Put stuff in boxes3. Put boxes in car4. Drive car to new townhouse5. Take boxes out of car6. Take stuff out of boxes (this step is occasionally omitted)7. Put empty boxes back in car (if there are any)8. Drive car home9….

This Post Is Marked As Friends Only As of the new DearDiary System the Friends system is not currently implemented – but may be again soon This content is therefore hidden

This Post Is Marked As Friends Only As of the new DearDiary System the Friends system is not currently implemented – but may be again soon This content is therefore hidden

I’m a little lost this weekend. It’s the same old New Year blues that hits me as predictably as the battery on my camera running out just before the cats do something that absolutely needs to be captured for posterity. This time of year is a beach fresh at low tide. The water has gone…

One hundred and thirty-five thousand names. Over forty-four September 11ths in the space of less than two-and-a-half hours. Americans think that September 11th shook the world. The “Christmas earthquake” did shake the world. And yet we remain USA-centric, even to the point of calling this the “Christmas earthquake.” It might have still been Christmas in…

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It’s snowing … the kind of snow that resembles nothing so much as an invasion of small, white, frozen fruit flies. It’s certainly cold enough for this stuff to stick (somewhere in the mid-twenties, last I checked), but the stuff seems more intent on displaying Brownian motion in the air than it seems to be…

It’s ten o’clock, and I’ve only been home from the vet’s for a few minutes. Clueless is holding his own, but in spite of me grossly overfeeding him he’s failed to gain any weight. It’s concerning, but at least any overt signs of illness have pretty much been banished for the present. I hadn’t intended…

Some vibrations have the ability to excite items that are receptive to the energy the sound imparts. Imagine an old friend pushing you while you are seated on a swing. Each push is timed to coincide with the pendulum sway, and so each swing receives a fresh dose of energy, and you are moved. The…