A little borrowed genius from XKCD.
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It appears a certain clown and regular commenter at Shot in the Dark has been branching out:
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Earlier this week I wrote a post about our outing to the blues bar where the Mall Diva and her friend were able to sing in an open jam session with other local musicians. They were great, of course, but part of the fun was in seeing the joy that the musicians [...]
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Can it really be five years since I cracked the code and put up my first blog post? Yes, indeed, it can be and has.
It feels as if the time has gone by so quickly. As I look back over the archives I’m surprised to see comments from “new” friends that [...]
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This blog has a history of announcing significant events on December 31, such as in 2006 and 2007. This year another significant milestone approaches.
December 31 is my last day with my current company; January 1 is my first day with my new company. This is actually true for my entire business [...]
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Last year at about this time I announced that I was going to step back from regular blogging in order to see if I could apply the discipline and habits of more than three years of almost daily writing into something a bit more ambitious. The problem was that while I knew [...]
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As the summer and its distractions goes on it seems that blogging vacations are often on the schedule. I know many prominent bloggers take the month off completely, and I’ve observed that posting often gets lighter on many of my favorites. While there have been years when I’ve taken August off myself, [...]
I received an email this evening from someone who said, “Did you know that your Comments are turned off on your last post?” Uh, no, I didn’t. I went into my site administration and, sure enough, Comments were inexplicably turned off for “The Greatest ‘Degeneration’?” post.
Lately I’ll admit to feeling a bit disappointed after posting [...]
I think the poem below pretty well sums up why I write — blogging or otherwise. From The Writer’s Alamanc today:
VII
I would not have been a poet
except that I have been in love
alive in this mortal world,
or an essayist except that I
have been bewildered and afraid,
or a storyteller had I not heard
stories passing [...]
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A few years ago I stopped at a local gas station and convenience store to tank up. It was a Saturday and back in the day when you had to go into the store to pay, and it so happened that I was in a hurry. I stood in line while the [...]