My grandmother is down for her second nap of the day. It’s not even 1:30 in the afternoon. She’s been sleeping more of late. She’s also been keeping odd hours, and her perception of light and dark seems to be non-existent. The new television remotes confuse her. There’s one for the television, and one forContinue reading “On the Week In Review”
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On the Day After Thanksgiving
If you are Black Friday shopping, do be careful. 🙂 I’ve had to disable the “Let It Snow” plugin for the blog. That plug-in created gently falling snow. It was pretty. It was hypnotic. It also caused problems for people browsing with Internet Explorer. (And really, if you’re using IE, why don’t you upgrade toContinue reading “On the Day After Thanksgiving”
On Forty Random Questions
A bunch of odd questions, taken from Keith:
On Looking Ahead
Today at work I found myself looking at things coming in May. It’s not even Thanksgiving. And I’m already dealing with May. Somehow, living in the moment means planning to live in the moment months hence. I mean, I’m already thinking ahead to my annual viewing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. And then theContinue reading “On Looking Ahead”
On Being Accosted at the Mall
It’s gotten so that I don’t enjoy going to the local shopping mall. The reason? Kiosks. In particular, there’s a kiosk at the mall that is invariably staffed by salespeople who barely speak English, who are selling sea-salt skin products, and who snag their customers by reaching out and grabbing them. Once, many years ago,Continue reading “On Being Accosted at the Mall”
On Random Road Thoughts
I was out, on the road, this weekend. I’ll write about it later. For the nonce, I listened to Death Comes to Time, the Doctor Who audio from 2001, and found it surprisingly better than I remembered. It’s only in its final fifteen minutes that it goes terribly wrong. The journey to that point, however,Continue reading “On Random Road Thoughts”
On Conversations About Politics
I ride the Baltimore subway to work, and at times I think I’m the only white person who rides the rails in the evening. Friday evening, there was a man on the subway platform there at State Center. I’d have judged him to be about forty. He had muscle tremors of some kind. He approachedContinue reading “On Conversations About Politics”
On the Perils of Peanut Butter
My grandmother refrigerates peanut butter. I do not like refrigerated peanut butter. The reason? It’s impossible to spread. It comes out in clumps, and it tears the bread apart as I try to smooth it out. All I wanted, all I really wanted, was a peanut butter and banana sandwich. However, my grandmother had eatenContinue reading “On the Perils of Peanut Butter”
On the Coming of September
I gets dark so much earlier now. The mornings are chilly. Chilly enough for a jacket in the morning, but too hot for a jacket in the afternoon. Chilly enough for long-sleeves in the morning, but too hot for long-sleeves in the afternoon. September. The leaves will start turning in a few weeks. September.
On Hanging Posters
Two years ago I moved to Baltimore, and in all that time, I never bothered to hang my poster collection. My poster collection amounted to not much at all, but it was my collection, and I never hung them up. There was many and multiple reasons for this. There’s really no place to hang posters,Continue reading “On Hanging Posters”