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Bent
The aches and pains about which I complained recently only grew worse this past week of work. That’s partly because Iʼm so old, I suppose, but also because of a glitch in the system that only grew...
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Editing After the Fact
I have to assume I am the only one who cares, knowing how I myself read other peopleʼs blogs, but I want to mention that old Wakdjunkagaʼs Blog undergoes real-life editing — by which I mean editing...
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Second Thoughts from Momsʼ Day
Yesterdayʼs post* ended with a bitter pill: “the restʼs just sin.”** However, some reflection, inspired by coincidence and dueling theologies, has made me think twice about the idea of life as merely...
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Going It Alone
Work continues, obviously. This week I put in almost 50 hours… I went out on my own, working, for the first full day on Thursday. I spent the day restoring or replacing traps which had blown down from...
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A Memory (not quite appropriate for Memorial Day)
I have a multitude of things to do — like mowing the yard and planting some clematis — and even some places to be, one of which in fact has already started (the grammatical connection for that “one of...
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Cursed Summertime
Itʼs hot. This announcement is not news to those of us living in the Midwest (and apparently in many places throughout the country, as record heat made the news shows this morning). But it is hot....
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Life Near the Mississippi
…or Bumbling Ineptitude Mark Twain did a remarkably clever thing when writing the memoirs of his youthful riverboating days, Life on the Mississippi, recapturing that long absent and nostalgic time...
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Congratulations, Tim and Jess!
Today, about the time this item posts online, my nephew Tim marries his sweetheart Jessica. His/their aunts and uncles (-in-law) could not feel happier, and I personally am looking forward...
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Whining (Again, Parenthetically)
Qwest (or perhaps… the presumably lamewad modem* we were forced to buy half a decade ago when The Lovely One first let us online here at home, as she purchased her Windozed Hewlett-Packard...
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Nothing Much
Let us now whinge… I don’t know if itʼs the heat, or if I just encountered too many things to be doing (mowing the lawn, running errands, diddling the day away), but I just havenʼt written too much...
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Repairs Required
As I seem to be on a whiny roll, I might as well complete a triumvirate* of complaining posts. In addition to my lassitude and the bug-ification of our backyard, by Monday two other troubles had...
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Dirty Work (at and away from The Crossroads)
My job is dirty work. I havenʼt mentioned this issue before partly because it didnʼt seem that way back in April when I got started. (I am thinking about “when I got started” as I have begun to take...
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Wrapping Up
Hmmm… The month of August is nearly gone with just one little post from me to mark this time, way back on the first of the month. Pretty sad record, that. Whatʼs up? Work. Plenty of it. August is the...
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Best Laid Plans?
Yesterday, almost from the predawn moment I arrived at my government Trailblazer to fetch it home for the dayʼs activities, rain poured from thick, dark skies, persisting all morning, as thunder revved...
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Apologetic Punkʼdee
Sometimes oneʼs own foolishness can provide the meat for a blog post. Well, thatʼs true at least in my case. And hereʼs the post, today, to prove the axiom. (I could have entitled this one, “Stepping...
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Free as a Bird (Not)
Rainʼs moving in… Of course, the radar has shown that rain closing in all morning, but the front wall of the rainfall has curved around Our County, encompassing Dubuque and a big region south of...
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Glitchiness
Software poses an interesting problem. Without it our personal computers (and for all of those cooler than myself, other digital devices) would be worthless. On the other hand, somehow the software...
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Formulaic
Lots of probably valid advice are* flickering out there in the digital ætherverse about how to improve and maximize the potential of “your blog.” WordPress offers some, and many bloggers have repeated...
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Retrotemporal Celebration
Happy Birthday, Betty! I drove Janet to work this morning, an unusual event (I think in the eleven years sheʼs worked out of town I have driven her to her job only a handful of times, by which watery...
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Past Blast
As the dextremist Enemies of Americans at Fox News attempt (tiresomely, repetitively, again) to distort real news/events for Their own smarmy purposes (abetted by that shady and seditious shark, Andy...
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