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Backposts

I’ve added a few backposts from the Held Hostage series:  Day 49, Day 58, and Day 65, in which are discussed coffee, Amy, parents, pets, lessons for adulthood, internet radio, and a fictional gay pirate dj. 
Enjoy!  Or don’t.

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Quick Note

I’ve added a number of back-posts, older stuff from Anguiano Held Hostage and from Dispatches From The Front Yard.  New readers might like to browse some that for the humor, invective, backstory, etc. 
Denise challenged me to come up with a “red-head flavoured top ten list”, since her husband’s 40th birthday is coming up next month.  [...]

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Greg Turns Forty

 

 
  
My friend Greg Cohen has his 40th birthday party today.  Of course, I can’t be there.  A wide variety of reasons posit themselves, but it all boils down to one thing:  I suck.  And so, as usual, I’m going to miss the party. 
 I’ve known Greg for . . . well, going on twenty years [...]

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            Morning radio sucks.  I usually have to skip three times through the entire dial, past all sorts of ‘morning show’ idiots who are frantically laughing at their own jokes, before I can find an actual piece of music that has managed to insert itself between commercials.  And, of course, it’s a piece of music [...]

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            It’s official.  Amy is insane. 
            I mentioned in my last installment that Amy and I were planning to adopt a cat in January.  Since a particular litter of kittens was involved, we stopped by Lafayette Animal Aid today to look over the remaining kittens and to put in our dibs.  I should have [...]

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            The day quickly approaches for Amy’s thesis defense.  We are, of course, daily invoking St. Albert the Great, patron of scientists and science students, for his assistance in this endeavor.  However, while we would most appreciate the aid of Albertus Magnus in academic matters, we would prefer that he stick to his areas of [...]

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            Lafayette has been rather fragrant of late.  I’ve been reminded somewhat of my one trip to Wisconsin, during which I spent several hours driving a rental car past fields of grazing cows.  Wisconsin is, after all, the Dairy State, which would necessitate a sizable population of cows.  Large numbers of cow will eat large [...]

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