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Frey and Viswanathan Question: What do James Frey and Kaavya Viswanathan have in common? Answer a little bit later. I know a little something about addictions, because I have what I call an "addictive personality." …
Work Schedule Changing Soonaquitter asks if I can't get my work hours reduced. Hah! Technically, they're going up. But before close followers of Twoberry's frenetic pace have a heart attack, the work hours are really…
Recap While trying to manage a killer work schedule, I've also wanted to join my wife in taking in some of the events of "Zora Fest: The Mystique of Zora," a weeklong celebration of the life and times of Zora Neale Hur…
The world needs pessimists too, but the optimists need to be present and in charge at all times.
Fire Extinguishers I can't think of a duller topic. The hospital gets its extinguishers serviced annually, and there must be several hundred of them scattered about, and it fell on me Tuesday to escort the servicing gu…
One More Day ... of work, then a day off, which will mostly be spent seeing doctors. (Health's OK, but for some reason doctors feel they need to see me every so often.) Two years ago today, I wrote this. The fellow I…
16-Hour Shift Today ... So no time to write much. Here is a page to visit, if you want a little more biographical information. I love revisiting my pages, and especially looking at the old comments -- from friends tha…
Take the Lead This may be the only positive review of "Take the Lead" you'll ever see. Call me sappy, but I can't recall sitting through a movie that had me pleasantly grinning from start to finish. Perhaps I was in t…
Here's Me in a Tux Except for the usual minor household and dog chores, Saturday can be a day of surfing Xanga, then maybe taking Barbara out for a dinner and movie, then home to bed. Sounds nice, huh? Here's the note…
I'M TOTALLY NUTS Thursday I got off work a few minutes late, home at 4:30, just time for A. a power nap B. a quick shower, to wake up so that we could leave the house at 5:10 to take in a wine-tasting mixer at the …
Is the Fuck Word Really What It's All About? Make no mistake. The flagging system that Xanga intends to create is horrendous, wrong, stupid, and it smacks of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. The idea of asking Xa…
Well, That Was Fun ... being on Featured. Of course, I'm never satisfied. What I want to do is write and write and write, and receive beaucoup de comments et adulation for a long blog that entertains and edifies and c…
Of one thing I'm certain. Donald Rumsfeld has the look of a man who suffers from hemorrhoids. [Tuesday edit: thanks, gang. You put this on featured content!]
Today: Happy Easter Spring Passover (a greeting shamelessly stolen from soonaquitter) Last night ... The Ramsey Lewis Trio Whoever said you can't trust a guy with two first names? The Ramsey Lewis Trio consists of t…
[Saturday night edit: the negative shit has been deleted, rendering some sections of earlier comments mysteriously irrelevant to what remains of this post.] The Campfire My favorite author is the late John D. McDonald…
News Flash! Farewell, Miles Davis Last Sunday night, while Rita, Barbara and I were waiting for the symphony concert to begin, Barbara advised us that Miles Davis would be appearing at the Emerson Center on Friday, M…
My Life in Scrabble Some may have misunderstood. When I say "retired from Scrabble," I mean retire from its being like a second job. In fact, for about 12 and a half years, it was my ONLY "job." I retired from the wo…
Officially Retired From Scrabble It just suddenly occurred to me to make this announcement at Xanga, where my friends are. Yes, you're only virtual friends, and for all I know every single one of you is lying through y…
More About "Thief" More About "Chicago" And Then There's Golf So is anybody besides me watching "Thief" at 10 p.m. Tuesdays on FX? Just four more episodes to go in this six-part series that stars Andre Braugher. If yo…
[Wednesday night edit at bottom] Probably This Oughta Be Protected, but ... What the hell. Nobody I know reads my blog anyway, and besides it's probably OK and I'll be careful. Yesterday we took two cars to breakf…
How Alert Are My Readers? Maybe not a fair question, but I did do some Xanga-touring after getting home 12:30ish in the ayem, and had a bit of a running conversation with the sleepless DMV until 2:30. Daniel gave up be…
Lunch With Bill and Bev I'll try sneaking in this report, even though there's hardly any time this morning, because I slept late. I'm working a double shift; that's why I slept a little late. I'll still get to work on…
Tight Schedule Leaving in 20 minutes for a 2 1/2-hour trip to LaBelle, where we'll lunch at Flora and Ella's (famous for their pies) with Bill and Bev, who winter in Fort Myers. Home tonight sometime. Tomorrow, a 16-h…

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