It's been a while, man....

I just had to check to see when I moved to the duplex I live in now -- it was almost eight years ago. I thought it was more like six, but, no, I moved in June on 2005. One of the very first things I noticed when I moved in was that one of the burners on my stove wasn't level. I was already irked that -- for the first time in my life -- I had an ( Read more... )

I got an Instagram account about a year ago because I loved the Instagram photos that my brother and that drood were re-posting in various places. And, I have to say, it's completely changed the way I see the world around me and the way I look at things that might at first seem to be dull and uninteresting. I've always thought of myself as a very visual ( Read more... )

Whatever happened to poodles? I never see them anymore. When I was a child, it seemed that every wealthy older lady toted around a toy poodle (the way Paris Hilton used to swan around clutching her Chihuahua accessory-dog). Toy poodles actually DID look like toys (nervous toys) and always seemed little more than overly-groomed puffballs with pink ( Read more... )

Today's Google doodle is pretty cool, celebrating the birthday of the great Saul Bass, the graphic designer known for, among other things, his fantastic movie title sequences.

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(And that music by Dave Brubeck -- "Unsquare Dance" -- is great. I think I need to break down one of these days and finally explore the world of Brubeck.)


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I probably don't need to volunteer the information to a prospective employer that he and my cat share the same name, do I?


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Yesterday, I got a card from my car dealership congratulating me on the upcoming first anniversary of the purchase of my car. (I get a lot of overly-earnest and "concerned" mail from my car dealership. In fact, I hear from them almost as much as I do from ATT who apparently will not rest until they sign me up for their U-verse plan. I've never felt ( Read more... )

Last week I was awakened by someone pounding on my bedroom floor. ...From underneath the house. Can't say that's ever happened before. I sat up in bed, blinking, wondering if I was still asleep. Then I heard it again. This time it was followed by a voice shouting "HELLO ( Read more... )

My aunt had recently taken a leisurely drive with a friend through East Texas and called me up afterwards to give me a hot tip about having seen a large "hidden" room of books in one of those quaint antique shops one sees in every small Texas town. She thought I might want to hotfoot it out east to paw through the waiting treasures that were no ( Read more... )

I have always been a night owl. I stay up late. Sometimes really late. I usually go to bed around 3:00 a.m. I've never really had a job where I had to be at work early, so even though I LOVE being up at 6:00 in the morning, I don't understand how people can get out of bed at 6:00 in the morning. These days I get up somewhere between 10:00 and 11:00 ( Read more... )