July 21, 2017 (Friday)

July 20, 2018

Lately I’ve been waking up with headaches again. It’s annoying. I don’t take painkillers, and it’s usually gone pretty quickly. I’m wondering if it’s something skeletomuscular, a tension headache I develop during sleep. Or else it’s the tail-end of that chest flu trying to claw its way into my sinuses to set up shop there. […]

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July 20, 2017 (Thursday)

July 19, 2018

The first half of my decking shipment arrived yesterday afternoon; second half is supposed to come today. It arrived on a flat bed truck the length of a cruise ship (well, okay, not quite that big). Single driver, he unloaded everything himself, good job. Not sure how he managed to navigate the curvy streets with […]

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July 19, 2017 (Wednesday)

July 18, 2018

Things on the agenda today, pressing. AC was on yesterday after all – it was really muggy. Flash-flood producing rains in the afternoon. Must have rained during the night, too. Everything wet this morning. Even though it was quiet in our bedroom for a change (windows closed) and dry and relatively cool, I couldn’t sleep. […]

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July 18, 2017 (Tuesday)

July 17, 2018

Yesterday evening I finally finished my email of complaint about E.-St. traffic and roadbed conditions. Sent it to the mayor, my ward councilor, the city manager, and the state representative (E.-St. is a numbered route). I wonder what kind of response I’ll get. Meanwhile, politics around here remains and gets ever more gnarly. Neocons getting […]

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July 17, 2017 (Monday)

July 16, 2018

The lovely weather continues. But… it’s early and we slept (relatively badly) with windows open, and I’m at the point where this traffic noise is making me cry. Even with noise-canceling headphones on and Focus@Will climpering away quietly, the roar of traffic is all I hear. Ka-thunk, ka-thunk go cars and trucks, speeding along way […]

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July 16, 2017 (Sunday)

July 15, 2018

Soon it’s W.’s birthday, and I have nothing planned. There’s a book he said he wants; I should order it. It won’t be a surprise since we share his Amazon account, so he’ll get an email, upon my ordering of it. If I buy anything somewhere else, he’ll see it on our shared credit card […]

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July 15, 2017 (Saturday)

July 14, 2018

The quality – or qualities – of friendship, of friends… That phrase-snippet occurred to me while thinking of a person I admire; who I don’t know personally. He’s not a friend of mine, but I wish he, or people like him, were. I wish I personally knew many people like him, could meet with them […]

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July 14, 2017 (Friday)

July 13, 2018

The morning pages were always conceived as an adjunct, or, more properly, a basis or habit on which to build a more substantial body of writing. Then, as other projects stumbled or were pushed into an apparently permanent holding pattern, another idea emerged alongside the dying ambition to write “big” things. I began to think […]

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July 13, 2017 (Thursday)

July 12, 2018

The AC is off, doors and windows are open, relatively cool and moisture-laden air is flowing through the house on this somewhat bleak if not outright ominous rain-promising morning. The traffic, muffled during the night because our windows were still closed, is rumbling along, ka-thunking over all the potholes as drivers steadfastly ignore the posted […]

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July 12, 2017 (Wednesday)

July 11, 2018

I occurred to me, just as an aside, that part of what I find so disturbing with the current Democrat meltdown over Trump is the extremely high level of me-me-me-orientation (the narcissism) embodied or expressed in the outrage. Okay, that’s a too-complex sentence, which actually could be simpler. For example, individual Democrats seem personally outraged […]

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