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The hell of writer’s block.

And five other reasons I’m utterly failing on my New Year’s Resolutions… Okay, so not really. Writing six reasons why I’m failing at my New Year’s resolutions would be pointless, right? So instead, we’ll talk about work and happiness and gratitude. In that order. Or maybe not. Maybe we’ll talk about kitty cats and how…
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The Operational Definition of Insanity

It is important, in this the new year, to lay out a series of precepts that the entire world across which I recreate myself should operate. Ironically enough, they all boil down to the following maxim: Doing the same thing expecting different results is, quite frankly, insane. (I think Einstein said this first.) Where this…
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Wal-Rant.

I won’t name names of a certain giant retail conglomerate that has a reputation for entering small towns (and several rather large ones) and driving out competition by undercutting prices. I’m not complaining about that — after all, competition is the name of the business. However, I will complain about something else. When you wait…
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My New Year’s Resolutions…or, The Art of Being Socially Anti-Social

HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR!! Now that we have that out of the way, let me be very clear: 2003 was a year. 2004 is a year. Nothing of massive note happened in 2003. I mean in a hundred years, to hear about the year 2003, you’ll have to take a 400 level history course at…
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Tragic Blockage

Sorry I’ve not posted in a few days. Things are happening right now that have me kind of blocked, writing wise. So please just hang loose and I’ll return shortly. I promise. md

Trimming trees…

…is so much easier with a chainsaw. The branches just peel away and fall off with no trouble at all. Of course you’ve figured out by now (or God I hope you have) that I refer not to decorating a Christmas Tree but rather the titanic oak in the front yard. What would have taken…
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Hello all…

…I’ve begun a new project in my next few days off, one that I hope will brighten my mood, if not my kitchen. I’m painting it. Yay, me. Right here at the Christmas Season (or Chanukah, Ramadan, or Chinese New Year as the case may be), it never amazes me the crassness of people. Pushing,…
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Why oh why?

I’m on vacation from writing for a few days, as I’m in the middle of horrid writers block. Try back next week, around Christmas. md

A brief bit of brevity.

It always freaks me out when friends of mine and I have that weird moment of psychic connection. You know those moments where a friend tells you they were thinking about you at such-and-such a time and you realize that is exactly when you were thinking about *them*. That just happened to me and my…
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Not seeing in a seeing world…

We take a lot of little things for granted in life. Toilets that flush and a McDonalds on every other corner aside, what about the really important things that go neglected throughout our daily lives. Forget for a moment the person you wake up next to every night or the car in the garage. Start…
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