You do not need two security guards patrolling a tiny parking lot on a 100-degree day. In the middle of the day, trying to shoo off non-existent movie-goers in the adjacent theater parking lot. At least those guards were employed. And I feel sorry for them.
When mowing the lawn with a rotary blade mower, you [...]
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I am frustrated because the only contact I have had for renting a room in the condo is from someone who appeared to be a scammer.
The time frame is probably the biggest barrier to renting a room out here. I may just go roommate-less and just hope I can move soon.
Anyway, I was looking at [...]
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What’s on my mind, to keep my mind off buyouts …
Books
Reading Moonseed by Stephen Baxter. A hard sci-fi novel driven by real science. Venus explodes. And not too long after, Earth starts to be eaten away by a contamination of a sample of moondust. It’s up to an astronaut and her geologist ex-husband to put [...]
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I’m a word person. I love words. I sometimes hate them. I’m surrounded by them. I devour them with my eyes.
And I cringe sometimes when they’re bent, distorted, overused.
Today, it was rock star.
I’m sorry. You can’t be a rock star if you are not, in fact, a rock star.
You can’t use this word to describe [...]
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A friend relayed to me the nicest thing anyone has said about me in a long time.
“I told him ‘I trust my friend with my life. And if she tells me not to buy it, I’m not going to buy it.’ “
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It’s always fun when your dad gets a poke in you because you call him for helping you with your windshield wiper blades, even though he lives 2,200 miles away.
“Get somebody to do it for you,” he tells me. “You’re a woman. Play that up. Make them do it.”
“I hinted around, Dad. The girl at [...]
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There’s something magical about serenely floating or lazily stroking through the cool, moonlit water of a swimmng pool. Watching fluffy cotton ball clouds cluster around the moon. Watching the halo of the moon in the clouds, bright, overpowering. Mysterious. Feeling good, lazy, no pressure.
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