This was inspired by Scoob’s comment.
I can’t say I’m really for unions.
In the jobs I’ve held, I was hired to do X job for Y dollars per hour and Z benefits. The benefits weren’t even my idea, they just came with the job. As I have always done X, as required, [...]
There are hermit crabs and hermit people. What about hermit monkeys?
“Johnny, stay away from the crazy monkey that lives by himself in the cave outside of town! He’ll beat his chest and fling poo at you. He shows his teeth and sticks out his tongue. I swear, he has no social [...]
I nominate Frary to be the change here in Maine.
Can I say, now that I’m here, how stupid I think “change” is for this presidential race? The current president cannot be president again next term. Therefore, we’ll have a different man as president next term. Since we won’t have the same man, [...]
Lothar drove another replacement post into the ground behind Hobgoblin Wall. This section of the wall was named after the creatures that caused the wall to be built. Fifty years prior, the greenskins had attacked the town from out of the surrounding forest. A short rock wall which used to demark the [...]
Here I am with a wonderful day off. The sun is shining, neighborhood dogs are barking, there might even be some birds at my feeder.
Why do I have a Thursday off, you ask? Oh, just a little thing called…pneumonia. Stupid, dirty disease keeping me up all night and sending me to the [...]
It’s difficult to remember that villains have feelings, too.
I know in the books you read a lot about the bad guy becoming the bad buy because of the fact that he has feelings and someone has hurt them. I’m thinking more…realistically, though, if I can presume so much. I thinking of Willoughby from [...]
We sat around the kitchen table painting little metal miniatures.
The screen door opened and closed, distracting me from work at hand. Host turned around and said “Hello.” He looked back to me to explain, “This is our friend, Mary,” as a little girl looking about 9 came in the door.
“Are you still in [...]
The first time I painted, it was a short session, relatively unproductive. Then I couldn’t get a good close up of the miniature.
While I can now boast that the painting is complete, my picture is little to no better than before. Here’s the blurry image for you to make out what you may. [...]
These puppies are pure sugar. I wonder if they are hurting my pancreas and my ability to process glucose. Wouldn’t it suck to become diabetic just because I can’t keep my hands out of the orange slice bag? Either they are addictive, or I really, truly have too much of an addictive [...]
This year I will be a professional information guru at the American Folk Festival! Want to know where the lame all-banjo band is playing today? I call tell you. I have a festival schedule! Yes, they are on hand in about a billion different locations, including that guy who was handing [...]
disease our minds as well as our bodies. Sedentary lives lead to obesity and all the health woes included therein. The mind wastes as it spends fruitless hours engorged with entertainment, whether on the TV or the internet, at the bar or at the bowling alley. We are increasingly unable to physically [...]
We don’t use near as many forks as we do spoons. I wonder if other families are like that. What if we’re different? What if we’re strange? What if we’re not like everyone else?
I had something else for today, but this is much better. It is stolen from Kari. The story is that apparently the National Endowment for the Arts estimates that the average adult has only read six of these books. Here are the markup guidelines:
1) Look at the list and bold those you [...]
