Tag: Rambling
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Thin Bean Soup
This isn’t a recipe. It’s not even a serious post. You know how to make thin bean soup? Well, first you roast the beans. Then you grind them. Then you drip hot water over ’em… Coffee. I meant coffee. I could do without it. I could! I don’t really want to, but if I had…
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It’s Friday
I’ve got about ten minutes before I need to toss some food in a sack, slop coffee in a cup, and go. Funny how it is. It’s not that I’m not looking forward to being at work. I have some good puzzles to work through while I’m there, and the possibility of being handed more…
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Floors and Desk Fittings
Having skipped the weekend… I didn’t, actually. But I also didn’t manage daily art, blogging here (I always do MGC, at least), or anything creative. Instead, I was being creative in entirely different ways. There’s something to be said for sheer manual labor, broken by pleasant interludes of spending time with family or a…
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Tiny invisible hugs
As I was making the bed the other day, I was stripping off the sheets and quilt, pulling fresh ones from the blanket chest, and contemplating our interconnectedness with the past. In my case, making the bed forms this bridge for me on purpose. I chose to buy a pair of blanket chests in a…
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Scattered, Smothered, Chunked and
My dear First Reader introduced me to the phenomenon that is Waffle House when I first came to Ohio more than seven years ago now. At the time, the little one nearest our house was his favorite hangout spot. He knew all the waitresses, and soon they knew me, too. They let me to know…
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Five minutes
Ok, maybe ten. It’s not that I need to get in to work early, it’s that I really enjoy that quiet hour when I’m alone in my office. Paperwork, training, just put in my earbud and cruise through it with very little interruptions. Except the printer (which is also in my office) ‘talks’ to itself…
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One Word
I’m waiting. I can’t do much, because I’m waiting and could get the call at any minute now, so if I commit to some project that I can’t immediately walk away from, that would be a problem. That, and it’s going to be a long day. Which is planned for, and actually a good thing…
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Dog Dynamics
My Mom is here for a short visit. She’s been driving across country, visiting family along the way, enroute from Oregon to (ultimately) New Hampshire. Last evening Mom, my sister Juniper… and two dogs showed up. All were welcome, but it’s been funny watching the dogs, her two and our (very spoiled) one. They met…
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Pre-Dawn Calm
As part of the new routine, the First Reader and I have found a new time to spend together. Before I have to be on the road for work – and the sun doesn’t come up until after I am in windowless labs for the day, which makes walking outside at lunchtime an interesting experience…
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Boxes of Miscellany
I was rambling about the move, and how it may or may not relate to writing, age, and family, over at the Mad Genius Club this morning. The house is nearly unpacked, saving for the boxes that are stowed in the basement, and a few boxes of miscellany that need to be sorted. I don’t…