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gold medal
Gold medal, at last. Against Germany, which makes it better. (Refer back to the last World Cup if you need this explained to you; it is rather painful.) Brasil! (That’s two hundred thousand voices,...
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happy belated world photography day
Happy belated World Photography Day. It was a weird week, and somehow this important date passed me by. (It was Friday, if you too missed the memo.) But photography has become really important to me...
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the birthday corgi
Today is a very special day: it is our old corgi boy’s 15th birthday. We can say about him the greatest thing you can say of any of his kind: he is, and has been every single day since we first met...
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olympic notebook: shuttlecock
(Of course, there was an Olympic notebook. Or rather, an Olympic yellow legal pad. And like any notebook, I wrote down a few things that turned out to still be interesting the next day. And a few that...
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dust pans on parade
Today at Menards, an assortment of “High Power”dust pans. (The red one is described as a “Big Dust Pan” and costs a buck more.) Plus, square “U” bolts! They are made of zinc, as are the regular U...
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3 more tuesdays
This blog is non political, and will continue on that path. I want it to be a safe place, a place where you can come every day to look at some art, read a bit of fiction or a poem,and/or have fun with...
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2 more tuesdays
Went to the County Administration Building today to pay the property taxes for World Headquarters. Saw this whiteboard in the lobby just inside the front door. Went downstairs to 102-A and behind this...
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the purple horse comes home
Those of you who follow my Instagram feed may remember a photograph called the Purple Horse at the Liquor Store. https://www.instagram.com/p/BLBxobeh4DN/ Today I was back at the liquor store and they...
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old gold
If anybody ever asks you what people mean when they talk about “old gold”, just tell them it’s the color of the gilding in Rapp and Rapp’s marvelous Chicago Theater, built in the 1920s. Pretty sure...
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one more day
This leftover Halloween decoration captures exactly how I feel in these last hours before election day: the weather is still autumn-perfect, golden and beautiful, and I am stressed out to the point of...
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didn’t catch it!
I’ve never actually played Pokemon Go, but I think I saw a tall blue one this afternoon while walking the Dire Corgi. I didn’t catch it, and neither did the dog.
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martian tartan
Did you know that Mars has its own tartan? It does–it’s the rather handsome pattern of (Mars) red and (water of life) blue, with four green lines (for being the fourth planet from the Sun), and a white...
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a very dire phone camera
While cleaning some of the junk out of my phone’s photo files (chorus: why in the world did I take a picture of that???), I found this extremely worthwhile image. What could be so profound and...
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fifteen years ago today
Fifteen years ago today, we brought home a Cardigan Welsh corgi puppy, black brindle with one white ear. It was a very wise thing to do.
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a new lens for the last of november
Today marks the arrival of a new lens– a short telephoto macro* for the Fujis, which is definitely giving Mischief a fresh outlook on the world. Even on a cloudy, raw last day of November there are...
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seasonal tool exchange
Good bye, hose cart for soaking the new trees. Hello, snow shovels and the long brush for sweeping the satellite dish so we can watch TV.
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smol typer
(A new little creative tool, bought with pocket money in the Black Friday sales, is used to make a fragment of prose in the “bad science fiction” style. There is a photograph to go with it.) I haz a...
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welcome to my world
This is the first post from the smol typer, as seen in yesterday’s post. And what better topic to try out a new blogging tool on than a beautiful four color matchbox label. “The Globe” displays a lot...
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wade in the green water
It’s too cold for wading here in already-wintry Indiana. I don’t really want to write about the news any more, and while work is finally starting to go a little better, I don’t have anything ready to...
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