Back in my college years an accident at work shattered one of my thumbnails. It grew back, sort of. Basically, at the the tip the thumbnail tends to detach from the nailbed, become fantastically painful, and then detach even more, sometimes nearly the whole of the thumbnail. It’s only within the past year that theContinue reading “On My Thumbnail”
Category Archives: Asides
On Stupid Weather
Since last night we’ve had lightning. We’ve had thunder. We’ve had more lightning. We’ve had more thunder. I called one thunderclap “rolling thunder”—it lasted for, oh, three or four minutes and rocked the world. But rain? Could we have rain to go with this rolling thunder? Of course not. :/ Must drink coffee.
On Blowouts
Add this to the list of things I would have been perfectly content to have never experienced in my life—a tire blowing out on the Baltimore Beltway at seventy miles per hour. It was about 8:30. I was a little past the I-795 merge when I noticed several things. One, the Beetle was rattling. Two,Continue reading “On Blowouts”
On Notes To Self
Note to Self: Buy bag of kazoos at dollar store. Kazoos. Note to Self: Silly putty won’t fix that. Are you daft? Note to Self: That could be a good idea.
On Fun With Industrial Blenders
You have to admire these guys–they’ll stick anything in a blender, just to see what happens. Yeah, when I was seven or eight, I’d have loved to do that. Okay, I had slightly more sense than that. But still, it’s a cool concept. They’ve turned their attentions to the burning question of the day. TheContinue reading “On Fun With Industrial Blenders”
On the Need for Hobbies
Being the hot, miserable day that it is, I worked on a Word macro coding project for work I’d started (and finished–or at least got something that runs) last week, to clean up the code, strip out some redundancies, and replace a brute-force search-and-replace with a much cleaner looped search-and-replace. And then, I turned myContinue reading “On the Need for Hobbies”
On Aches and Pains
Yesterday. Oh, yesterday. I was in pain. I had a minor migraine. I was drowsy. My foot was killing me. Mid-afternoon, I went for a cup of coffee. I’d been hobbling all day. The pain had almost worked itself out. I’d been listening to some John Lennon on my computer while I wrote short featuresContinue reading “On Aches and Pains”
On A Sleep Oddity
I woke this morning at two. I’m not certain why. Might have been a sound that pierced the veil of sleep. Might have been a reaction to rolling over in bed, as I toss and turn a lot. Two. In the past when I’ve woken at odd times of the morning, strange things have happened.Continue reading “On A Sleep Oddity”
On Asking Allyn Anything
Same ground rules as before. The floor is open to questions from the audience. So what do you want to know? If you want to know how I take my coffee, here’s your chance. If your question is too personal, potentially libelous, or borderline illegal I’ll let you know, but don’t let the possibility keepContinue reading “On Asking Allyn Anything”
On the Sam Adams Honey Porter
Saturday afternoon I had to go out to the grocery store–nothing puts a crimp in the rest of the day like a lack of breakfast cereal. (For those keeping score at home, I generally prefer Peanut Butter Cap’N Crunch or Cookie Crisp.) So, I drove to Eldersburg and went to the store. While I wasContinue reading “On the Sam Adams Honey Porter”