Doing TimeDoing TimeA personal blog full of wry and self referential archnesses. 
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All Present, Powerful & Knowing
2008-06-05 03:53:00 Guest Blogger: Puppy Dog on the continuing, rambling phone messages my mother insists on leaving… Star date: 20080604 The fortress is secure having banished the evil hordes- all right, the mailman, back to the shadowy depths of hell from whence he came. The squirrels are proving more troublesome as they barricade themselves behind a forcefield in the ... More About: Present , Knowing
Bad Moon Risin?
2008-06-02 23:56:00 I’m often amazed at what it takes to send me off the deep end in the shallow pool these days. I know how I am. I push too hard for too long. Neglect the little things in life. You know, those little things that actually make life worth living sometimes, and then whammo! I either ... More About: Moon
A Fine Lass
2008-05-31 01:51:00 I say, there’s precious few things funnier in this world than my mother, overseas, drunk, and leaving rambling messages on my phone. Mummy is over on the Old Sod visiting the cousins and it seems like all they do over there is tie one on night after night, or maybe it’s actually continuous, I wouldn’t ... More About: Ireland , Fine
Shaky Ground
2008-05-30 00:19:00 I’m thankful to live in an area of the world where natural disasters are few and far between. And while I think I can handle tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, and maybe even wildfires, I take for granted day in and day out that ground I walk on will stay right the hell where I expect it ... More About: Ground , Iceland
Slow News Day
2008-05-29 00:25:00 Dunkin Donuts and Rachel Ray were proverbially bitch-slapped by some windbag at Fox News , when said commentator likened a scarf Ray was wearing to a something a terrorist would wear. Naturally, Corporate America being the spineless wusses that they are over such matters, immediately pulled the ad with profuse apologies. Honestly, this has to be a ... More About: Slow
Eating My Particle Wave Cake
2008-05-25 16:00:00 Sailor Man often complains that I want it both ways. He complains to me that I can’t have it both ways. Given the existence of particle wave duality, I argue, yes, I can. Light is a tricky beast. Allows you to see everything yet will blind you at the same time. Sometimes acts like a particle. ... More About: Cake , Particle , Eating , Wave , Know Your Rights
The Measure of a Man
2008-05-23 02:18:00 I admit it. I’ve been a bad blogger. Finals kicked my ass and I got sucked into a project that, is too, kicking my ass and the blog has been put to the wayside. HOWEVER, I’ve been tagged by Turkish Prawn over at Fox and Maus and I must confess, I was intrigued by ...
Schrodinger?s Cat in Burma
2008-05-16 17:00:00 Geek that I am, I love physics. I particularly like quantum theory when it bleeds over into other worlds we might not associate it with. I was listening to NPR about the current situation in Burma , still horrendous, and how while the Military powers-that-be there are more than willing to accept our aid, they ...
Yoga School Drop-Out
2008-05-12 01:58:00 I heard the class at the downtown Y was loose and friendly and so I thought I would give yoga what is becoming my Biannual Attempt at Flexibility. I walk into the room and it is dark. In fact, the light is never turned on. This is good, I like this. I take a place at the ... More About: Yoga , School , Drop
Oh, Joy, Michelle Duggars Uterus Still Works?
2008-05-10 05:23:00 Rising food costs, ridiculous energy fees, foreclosed homes, tragedy in Burma (you’ll not catch me saying the “M” word), and more misery than a planet can bear and yet my favorite family of whack-job, over-populating breeders is back to their usual hijinks! And it isn’t even Giftmas!! Okay, I’m going to skip the rant this time ... More About: Works , Michelle
Making Lemonade
2008-05-06 02:36:00 I think we can all agree that the economy basically sucks, but instead of looking around and asking “Where am I going and what am I doing in this hand basket?”, I have been oddly noticing small changes occurring around me and have been feeling strangely hopeful. For my own part, I hadn’t really noticed a ... More About: Lemonade
Spring Revival
2008-05-02 02:30:00 In the immortal words of Sailor Man’s grandfather: “Horay! Horay! It’s the First of May! Outdoor sex begins today!” I have received countless phone messages and emails from the Sailor-Man-Clan to this effect. Can you believe this is what I married into? …yeah, me too. More About: Spring , Revival
Dating the ?Other Team?
2008-04-30 19:09:00 It hasn’t happened for awhile so I was a little taken aback when I got the call. “You have to talk my friend’s little sister! She’s dating this guy and everyone knows he’s gay except her!” You have no idea how many times I’ve received a call like this. And no, I am not Dr. Ruth, I ... More About: How To , Dating , Team
D.C. Occupation
2008-04-28 14:21:00 I was in Washington DC this weekend and, per usual, I was reminded how much I adore that town. For whatever one thinks about the district and whomever happens to reside in the big house at the center of it, you can not deny that this city has a life of it’s own. DC is so ... More About: Monsters
Waiting for Rain
2008-04-21 03:01:00 All day waiting for the deluge promised by the weather report. Walked the dog and then bathed the dog in anticipation of it. Raked the yard and and picked up pine cones figuring it was a task better done in dry conditions. Frantically ran errands before I saw clouds moving in. Went to a dollar show in anticipation of ... More About: Rain , Waiting
The Duct Tape Groom
2008-04-20 00:47:00 An old friend of mine called this afternoon to thank me, tearfully, for the tool kit I gave her as a wedding present 12 years ago. I was a little taken aback at first, because one, it took me a minute to remember I had given to her, and two, because I remember the look on ... More About: Duct Tape
Haiku on A Dog Walk, in 3 Parts
2008-04-17 13:28:00 #1 Why, Dog, why the poo? Two minutes out of the house You don’t carry it! #2 Don’t eat that shitzu He is one-tenth your size and He might not taste good #3 What’s that you rolled in? Oh, Dog! Can’t you smell the stink?! You’re getting Febreezed! More About: Haiku , Parts , Walk
The Presidential Grade
2008-04-16 05:19:00 So it’s coming down to the nitty-gritty. The proverbial Talking Heads are all agog. Speeches are being thoroughly scoured for anything even smacking of the slightest controversy so that the media hounds can swoop in like the vultures they are and devour the carcass of the misspoken. All this talking and I still don’t feel ... More About: Politics , Presidential , Monsters
Dangerous Curves
2008-04-15 00:41:00 Some girls just are. They really just are. From a very early age, they like make up, they like having their done, they’re obsessed with nail polish, and Barbie dolls, and boys. They just instinctively know how to flirt and manipulate to get their way. They understand that they look differently, better, than other little girls ... More About: Curves , Dangerous
Territorial Disputes
2008-04-14 01:39:00 Unilateral: ?adjective 1. relating to, occurring on, or involving one side only: unilateral development; a unilateral approach. 2. undertaken or done by or on behalf of one side, party, or faction only; not mutual: a unilateral decision; unilateral disarmament. My niece is 11 years old. My elder sister who bore said niece has done her level best to ... More About: Disputes
Progress: Spanish Style
2008-04-13 01:38:00 The new Spanish cabinet has been revealed and for the first time in the country’s history, the women outnumber the men. To quote John McClane, “YIPPEE-KAI-YAY-MOTHER-EFFER!!̶ 1; To think, the idea of equality is not yet dead in the world! The mere thought of it makes me all giddy and ready to turn cartwheels and handsprings. And that, ... More About: Politics , Style , Feminism , Progress
50 Degrees of Happiness
2008-04-10 20:03:00 I was driving to school behind a car that has “H8 Witner” as their license plate number and I couldn’t help but chuckle. Here it is, a beautiful spring day in Erie , PA, which means it is technically above 50 degrees although it doesn’t feel like, but the skies are blue, the sun is out, and the ... More About: Happiness , Degrees
Erie Tire Plant Part Deux
2008-04-07 18:46:00 or aka: Blowing Smoke Up My !@#. I wrote about my feelings regarding the Erie Tire Plant some time ago, back in the “Before-Time”, and since then, I have been dutifully following the progress of Rubino and gang as they move forward with Erie Renewable Energy TDF plant. I haven’t heard much about the tire plant ... More About: Part
Taking Aim at Bratty Neighbor kids
2008-04-05 05:26:00 Given that dog bites are one of the top injuries children suffer, I am often amazed that parents don’t teach their kids better manners when interacting with domestic pets. Case in point: three evil cretins who reside in my neighborhood seem to think it’s amusing to run up behind me while walking the dog, shout something ... More About: Kids , Taking
Lush Life
2008-04-03 00:37:00 It’s an unspoken rule that most couples have: The 3. The three people with whom you receive an automatic Get Out of Jail Free Card from marital fidelity should you ever, in this sphere of existence, get the opportunity to shag one of the people on your list. Last we spoke/joked about it, Sailor Man’s three ... More About: Life , Feminism , Lush
Culling the Herd
2008-04-01 23:54:00 I did it once back in 2000 and it broke my heart. I had, quite literally, a room full of books and it was time to pare down the numbers. First I counted the total number and then by a very complicated process of consulting calendars, Greek oracles, planetary positions, and devising algebraic equations that ... More About: Erie
Rat B?s and Mother F?s
2008-03-30 19:13:00 Has it gotten so bad in this country that even our own government doesn’t want to employ Americans anymore? Someone seriously needs to explain to me how outsourcing the creation of American passports is a good idea. Hell, screw good, explain to me how this is a safe idea. Blank passports passing through the hands ... More About: Politics , Mother , Monsters , Know Your Rights
Big Flirt
2008-03-28 14:16:00 Oh, Vladimir, you know how much I hate it when you play coy. So don’t think I don’t I know that this Medvedev fella is just a front. Playing Christian to your Cyrano, and no matter how much I love playing Roxanne in this little triangle, I don’t care for it. And seriously, the flights over US ... More About: Politics , Russia , Flirt , Vladimir Putin
Like Detroit Only Not
2008-03-27 18:12:00 Being trapped in Detroit with my parents over the weekend really reminded me how much I enjoy living far away. Time to time, I come home and kvetch about the latest paving-over of some beloved landmark, but still, there’s never any shortage of the element of surprise. So it was Easter, I was home, Sailor Man ...
Mexican Widow
More articles from this author:2008-03-25 22:30:00 So it looks like Mom didn’t actually have nefarious purposes behind her invite to me to come home for a visit. My father, who was layed off from his job after the company he worked for shipped all their work to Mexico, is now at another job working nights, seven days a week, 65+ hours ... More About: Mexican 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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