Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Public school gulag
January 30, 2013 | BlogTrue story. While signing Kid A up for school today, a girl walks into the office and asks the admin for the key to the dungeon. I like this place.
Senior cat box
January 29, 2013 | BlogI’m quite proud of the senior cat box I made last night out of a large Rubbermaid storage bin. The door is low to the floor for no effort access, tall sides keep wayward fannies on target, and there’s enough room for a litter free zone for those times she doesn’t feel like digging. Also […]
Memo from management re: end of world
December 21, 2012 | BlogFirst off I’d like to congratulate all of you on yet another fantastic End of the World! The circumflexing of the poles was imaginative, and it really felt like a millennia of burning, hateful torment. Good job, Mayans! On to business. The multiverse rebooted as expected and on time at 12:01 AM, with minimal data […]
Wet foot
November 19, 2012 | BlogKid A and I transplanted 4 birch saplings on the weekend. During which, I did that thing to my back that makes me mildly grumbly whenever I use it, I broke 1 shovel handle, Kid A got a wet foot, and I’m pretty sure as of this morning that one of those saplings isn’t a […]
Tom Waits on responsibility, maybe?
November 13, 2012 | BlogWe’re chained to the world and we all gotta pull. Tom Waits Regardless, I like it.
Cat of a different level
September 4, 2012 | BlogI take back everything I’ve ever said about this cat. She’s clearly working on an entirely different level of rodent eradication. Mouse witnessed in basement several weeks ago, but not since. Found floating in sump pump hole this afternoon, clearly for some time. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE ELDERLY.
Breaker labels
August 31, 2012 | BlogA few days ago I traipsed around the house with a table lamp searching for the outlet end of a breaker labeled freezer. It was a fruitless search, so I left the breaker off. This morning my tea was violated with the kind of scum that occurs when calcium and tea tannins get much too […]
Roger Sterling gives drinking advice
August 29, 2012 | BlogYou don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it’s good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink, because it’s what men do. Roger Sterling, Mad Men
I just took my mind off the hook for a bit
August 10, 2012 | BlogI just took my mind off the hook for a bit. I reckoned that if the world wanted me badly enough it would call back. It did. Ford Prefect, Life, the Universe, and Everything All I get is a dial tone.
I could use a Rain God
July 25, 2012 | BlogAnd as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and […]