buddy gonna shut you down

The latest bandwagon on which I’m jumping is simple, relatively painless, and very short term: I intend to live without my computer for 24 hours tomorrow, March 24. I mean, what the hey. I have a rare, insanely busy social schedule tomorrow (two birthday parties for four people? eh wot?) and my hand has been…

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peculiarities of the place in which i grew up #1

Bomb shelters! Quite a few underground dwellings (for cozy protection during the nuclear apocalypse) existed in Phoenix in the post-atomic heyday of the late 60s/early 70s. Ours was under our carport, accessed by a heavy iron door in the floor and a ladder leading down into a fantastic and very creepy room. It was outfitted…

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breathless

At left is the AP feed that greeted me this afternoon on the San Francisco Chronicle‘s site. It makes it look like the West is still Wild! Crash torch smashed ba-bang! And that last one: did the men fall off the cliff onto the train tracks just as a train was passing by, causing it…

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the blood in my veins

I tend to forget that I have a lot of kinfolk in this county. My mother’s side of the family extends waaaay back into the early roots of what is now Camarillo, California. My grandparents had a lot of siblings and therefore I have a lot of second and third cousins, direct and once removed.…

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thats my funday

Tonight, on America’s Funniest Home Videos (verbatim listing): Office bloopers include a man frightened by his coworkers’ fake bat and another whose tie gets stuck in a laminating machine. Ha ha! Oh, ha ha ha ha … {sob} Happy Sunday night, everyone! Good luck at work tomorrow! Photo: MSF0017, by ribarnica. Thanks for letting me…

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it’s been brought to my attention

from a me-reading source that it seems I’m neglecting my little bloggy and therefore appearing uncommunicative. Au contraire. I just spent every spare second processing the insane amounts of photos my sister and I took while in San Francisco last weekend. I am communicating with you visually. I also have been communicating banally by posting…

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