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Category: Musings
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Why Different?
It’s different, he said. Good different or bad different? I queried curiously. Just different. I don’t know why you had to make chocolate cake different. I don’t know either. Because I could? Because I was curious and wanted to see what would happen if I baked a cake with S’mores flavored porter as the liquid?…
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The Empty Bookshelf
I recently bought two large bookshelves. Since we moved, and the kids each asked to have a set of shelves in their rooms, and another set got repurposed from ‘book’ to ‘bathstuff’ due to limited space in the bathroom… I needed some shelves. I picked up a little set at the thrift shop, but it…
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Logic Failures
I had a weird conversation last night. The First Reader and I are shopping for a beater pick-up truck. His vehicle needs to go in the shop, we’re planning to move, and we’ve been wanting a truck for hauling what-not for some time. So it’s time to get it done… I’m taking my usual route…
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Don’t Blink
I think that was a weekend, but I’m not sure. It was kinda fast and blurry. I blinked at the wrong time, and suddenly it’s Monday. When coming to work is a moment to relax and look forward to, you know you’re doing something wrong. We’re trying to slow it down, but it’s a bit…
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Inertia
I spent two hours this morning navigating snot-slick roads with rain, no, that’s snow, no, that’s rain, no… that’s sleet now… falling on us. Given that we were in a car with two-wheel drive, four wheels on far too little surface are on the road for my comfort under those conditions, and even though I…
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Stop and Smell the Roses
I know, I know, we’re just (maybe) coming out of the coldest snap to grip the entirety of North America in… some time. There are no roses. So find something else. Hug the person nearest you. Pat a puppy. Play with a kitten. Carpe diem and squeeze ’em. We were awakened this morning by a…
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The Peril of Niceness
The First Reader and I started out our day with a small conversation, but it was more of a running topic we’ve mulled over together for years, now. Probably from even before he and I got together. The topic is something along the lines of ‘nice guys finish last’ and (get your minds out of…
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Use it or Lose it
I had to do math this morning for work. Nothing major, just a calculation of standard deviations and RSD for something. Population set of only six. Only… I wound up having to do it by hand and was painfully reminded that if you don’t use math, you lose it. I didn’t have a decent calculator…
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Waiting
What do you pack to keep yourself entertained if you know you’re going to be waiting for an unspecified period of time? Personally, I used to tuck a couple of paperback books in my purse. Usually, books that didn’t require much concentration to focus on reading, and books I could abandon in place to lighten…
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Chatter and Book Reviews
After a few days away, I’m back on routine. It’s been… interesting. You know what they say about life being interesting. I was telling Mom when we were chatting the other day I’m ready for some stability (and boredom) in my life for a couple of years. You know, to kind of rest after the…
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Occasio Praeceps
Hippocrates’ pithy summary of life continues with ‘opportunity is fleeting.’ We all know the cliches – seize the moment, and so forth. But how true is it, really? Yesterday I discussed life is short mostly in terms of my own life span, but the reality is that when this aphorism was coined, the life span…
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Myths
A guest post by Doug Irvin, whose story reminds me much of my First Reader’s tales. Let’s talk about – – – Privilege. It’s hard to get into a decent debate these days without someone playing the Privilege card. “You don’t understand the struggles, because you were raised to be privileged.” “You’re so privileged…