2013...

I thought to maybe not re-post this but will. It is in parts with some reflections each year since mom passed and Mother's Day comes and goes without her.

This spring after 3 years I took mom's ashes to the coast. It's a great spot she loved to go with me… Read full post »

I don't expect anyone to be able to help.

I have lost my scorecard, and my reading retention.

I may have lost my will to read. That's not a big deal.

SHOULD I USE BOLD TYPE? It looks important.

maybe just go all lower case

icould mispell stuf and use bad… Read full post »

That tr ig, eh?

 The guy is like Merlin the Magician tickling the back of your throat with a blow wand.

It all comes back to me reading him and his calls to inspiration. It comes right back up and out my nose.

20 or so years back at the swankest,… Read full post »

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The top level OS admin type person has been officially designated MIA. Some are quibbling over whether or not it is appropriate to say he was ever actually "in action", but that… Read full post »

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Lunch break. Climbed down off the ladder to see if anything was happening around OS.

Post after post is mentioning the errors, copying the errors, wondering if the errors are going to be co… Read full post »

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This is my final tweet. I tried not to make it pithy.

#fortunecookieadvice

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I don’t intend to bring dead flowers to the OS funeral.

I like them better alive.

Bring a bouquet of dead flowers if you like. We’ll all be there under the trees weeping.

These were alive recently in their place under the… Read full post »

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It’s a fast paced life we lead. Choices abound and not all are easy to make. Take the main drag through any city or burg and it’s likely you’ll see many restaurants, food carts and fast food joints to tantalize the sophisticat… Read full post »

Ranting a little. This town is drenched in rain. Sheets of rain they won't stop talking about on the news like I can't tell why I'm wet. Rain turning to showers turning to rain. Thanks happy guy. Idiot.

It stopped yesterday for about 12 hours. Sure, greenest place on earth etc.… Read full post »

2012

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Where has the good stuff gone?

I think I have participated in maybe one or two of these confounded OS meta posts in three years. I'm not participating in this one either. You've misunderstood what I'm not saying altogether. It's a joke. A social experiment.Here's the numbers. ZIP. Really?… Read full post »

I try not to blog too much personal information. It's just not my style and it seems better to avoid the cyber world crashing down on me like I have seen happen to  others before.

 I am faced with a bit of a dilemma however and wondered what the proper… Read full post »

My friend and I spoke this morning. On the phone way too long for grown men with other things to do.

So I took even more time and wrote to him: 

Hey Charlie,

I was actually bothered by the Grammy show too. Worked yesterday. It wa… Read full post »

Early January my wife and I had the good fortune to spend two nights out of town which I had won in a drawing in a no strings attached door prize at work. All I had to do was put gum on the back of my business card and magically it was the one drawn at… Read full post »

I missed the 80's. Not miss the 80's, just plain missed them. They didn't beckon me or have much to do with who I became.

I guess I was too young to slow down and appreciate the decade. I just dove headlong pell mell into being married and starting up.

Here's the only… Read full post »

I met Mark Twain again.

It's been nearly 117 years since he came through town in the flesh. That was early August in 1895. He was on the first leg of a long journey of lectures that would take him across the ocean and through countries that most who heard him… Read full post »

It's always something. This time I need to stop feeding the birds and having firewood stacked in the side yard. 

About three weeks ago I came home in the dark and right there in the front of the house, up in the Vine Maple was a rat. Rattas rattus to be… Read full post »

The news this morning is that two of the greatest Rhythm & Blues musicians of all time have passed away. Johnny Otis, most famous  I suppose as the singer of the doo-wop hit "Willie and the Hand Jive" is gone at age 90.

Etta James, is probably best known for a… Read full post »

Trees and stones.

Most everywhere I turn are trees, ferns, boulders and pebbles.  Some are natural, their growth part of a bigger scheme, set where they are without my input. Outside my office are some planted by landscapers. The birds can’t really tell they are plants native to another c/… Read full post »

   I won’t make it to the OS party Saturday tonight. If the doomsayers are correct it could be the last New Year’s Eve blast ever. End of Times predictions and all that. Not worried about it myself but just in case, we went to a big party last night with… Read full post »

          I put this off for awhile because it was difficult to come up with seven things I don’t like.  Not because there aren’t at least seven, but because if I don’t like them I don’t want to think/… Read full post »

I turn 60 today.

I thought that when I turned 60 it would be a day to celebrate accomplishments, to look back at the successes and a few failures that greeted me along the way.The ones that made up my fabric and defined me would be easy to separate from the others.… Read full post »

Mid-day deep in the forest in the Pacific Northwest, cirrostratus clouds formed with microscopic ice crystals. Somehow through magic and science, borne of providence or serendipity, or the unlikely combination of them all, sunlight made itself known .

The scientists tell… Read full post »