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Quotidian Vicissitudes
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Musings and mayhem from the off-kilter mind of a hyperintellectual neurotic.
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Three Things Completely Unrelated to Christmas
… just in case the holidays are grating on your nerves. 1) I had a strange schedule on Monday that didn’t involve any time for food until around 3 PM. By that time, I was ready to eat anything. And I do mean anything. So when I drov...
The Peculiarities of Fate
Today is the one-year anniversary of an event whose significance I still ponder: the arrival of the Amazon’s first response to a personal ad I placed as a cynical joke, with the idea that nobody would respond to it, but at least I’d hav...
O Cat
I. O Cat You are my first and best favorite cat whom I love although I call you a moth-eaten old ratbag. But of late, O Cat I find myself troubled by your fickleness. When the Amazon is near I am as piffle upon the wind to you. But when we are again ...
Thanks and Chickens
1) I recently made a charitable donation to a local school, and to thank me, they gave me tickets to a holiday event I don’t want to attend, but I kind of have to because it will be good for business. I really wish they had just skipped thank...
Miscellany
1) The small weasel cat has taken to licking out my coffee cup on a regular basis … luckily she waits until I’m done with it. However, she needs to be caffeinated exactly as much as she needs a hole in her precious head. She is a very...
Brief Updates
1) The piece of flesh that the dermatologist gouged out of my back turned out to be harmless, so now I’m (predictably) annoyed at the inconvenience and expense of the biopsy. 2) My student finished his paper on time, amazingly. His dad had...

