Tag: random musings
member name: David Rochester
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November 03, 2006 11:25 PM EST --
This afternoon I was making my way home after lunch, driving the speed limit in the center lane of a three-lane expressway, when another driver pulled out from a side street without looking; . . .
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November 07, 2006 12:14 AM EST --
1) Recently I showed a house to a young couple who struck me as rather peculiar. The husband is older than the wife, and they had an odd method of communicating, whereby everything I said had . . .
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October 25, 2006 12:39 AM EDT --
Today I was in line at my local bio/eco/organic/free-range grocery, and noticed that the cashier was wearing a button encouraging shoppers to add a sum to their bill, in support of Meals-on-Wheels. . . .
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October 02, 2006 09:24 PM EDT --
Last night my father and I threw a 60th birthday party for my mother that I fear she won't ever forget. Highlights of the evening included, but were not limited to:
1) Her best friends . . .
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October 03, 2006 03:35 PM EDT --
Today at the post office I was in line behind a distinguished-looking older gentleman in a nicely-tailored dark blue suit; he had a magnificent head of silvering dark hair and a stern . . .
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October 09, 2006 09:59 PM EDT --
My mother likes to tell a story about a disagreement she had with me when I was at that difficult age between two and three. Unlike many children, I was never a thrower of tantrums, but I . . .
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September 28, 2006 11:12 PM EDT --
My mother's 60th birthday is on Saturday. I spent most of this year trying to decide what to give her for this momentous occasion, and finally settled upon a pair of sapphire earrings. . . .
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October 05, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
My cats' current favorite toy is a tuft of feathers attached to a long plastic wand, which they pounce upon with much glee. Sometimes I let Little Liu the Weasel Fiend "kill" . . .
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October 05, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
My father gave me a handful of his old golf balls, thinking they might make good cat toys. The cats seemed fairly indifferent to them, but one day somebody batted one right under my desk, and I idly started . . .
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October 19, 2006 03:07 AM EDT --
I wouldn't have thought it logically possible for a person to be tense while sleeping, but apparently I am; almost every morning I awaken sore and aching, feeling tied up in knots. I'd like . . .
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September 26, 2006 10:36 AM EDT --
Today while I was eating lunch at my favorite bakery I observed a classic specimen of The Aggressively Masculine Man. This particular specimen was rather small of stature, so . . .
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September 27, 2006 02:37 PM EDT --
Yesterday I had occasion to purchase three dozen donuts to serve to a gaggle of realtors who were previewing one of my new listings. It took one of the girls behind the counter . . .
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September 27, 2006 11:54 PM EDT --
I arrived at the library half an hour early, to set up the meeting room for the play-reading group, and also to do some preparation for the reading which I had left until the last minute. I . . .
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September 28, 2006 01:31 AM EDT --
I went for a walk this afternoon through a pleasant neighborhood where I had been showing houses. I know the area fairly well, but I was surprised to suddenly come upon a small playground situated . . .
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October 02, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
Recently I have been re-reading my collection of Evelyn Waugh, for whose writing I developed a passion in high school, and have not enjoyed again since. Today I sat down with a cup of . . .
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November 01, 2006 12:45 AM EST --
As I have done each Halloween for the past four years, I spent the evening at my parents' house, helping them to deal with the 800 trick-or-treaters they get. Actually, they buy 800 . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
1) I was back in high school with the same people who were in my junior year Creative Writing class, except that we were all adults now. The teacher was the same guy, Mr. Davis, but he looked very . . .
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September 24, 2006 09:34 PM EDT --
Recently I suffered through a plumbing adventure. I had noticed that my kitchen sink was giving off whiffs of decaying vegetation, but had been too busy to investigate the cause. . . .
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October 24, 2006 08:50 PM EDT --
About five minutes ago, my phone rang. I saw on my caller ID that it was an out of state number. Sometimes I get out of state calls on my business line. I answered, and the woman on . . .
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October 06, 2006 09:44 PM EDT --
hello everyone my name is liu i am one of davids cats i like to use the computer but my dad turns it off usually when hes not using it hes so selfish. one thing i dont like . . .
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