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Roar! : Because the damn pot smokers are back with a vengeance. (posted Jan 6, 10:46pm)

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In Gratitude... : Yes, I know there's a day (or two?) left to Holidailies but I was feeling mushy and decided to run with it... (posted Jan 5, 8:48pm)

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A Vision of a Possible Future? : Eels and dogs facing off like Jets vs Sharks from West Side Story… And a whack of oversized cats in a den. (posted Jan 5, 1:58am)

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Holiday Haikus : My offering of spare verse... Such as it is... (posted Jan 3, 7:41pm)

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Video Games... : … have sure come a long way since I played Super Mario II until birds started chirping and I was shivering from sleep deprivation. (posted Jan 3, 2:11am)

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Don’t Spy Over Green Milk : My nephew came up with the wicked title for this post. (posted Jan 1, 10:51pm)

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T’is The New Year Where I Am : Instead of resolutions I’m leaning in the direction of DECLARATIONS (posted Jan 1, 1:31am)

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On The Grid & Back in the Game : Santa knew my address after all. (posted Dec 30, 10:54pm)

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500 Words of Fiction: It Dawns on the Living : The restraints were tight but he damn near kicked the pole off of its two inch bolts when I said that. Wasn’t trying to be mean. Just the truth. (posted Dec 29, 9:21pm)

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If I Have One Regret... : It’s that at no time thus far have I had the opportunity or the company with which to get giggling stupid drunk. (posted Dec 29, 1:54am)

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A Bitchy Thought : Her possessive look made me actually have a gander at the dude. Curious what she was fighting for with her eyes or if maybe I was missing something. (posted Dec 28, 12:58am)

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The Red Shoes : Best of Holidailies Thinking about it now, I have no idea how I used them for three solid winters in this climate, but I did. In fact, I probably wore them between 250-280 days a year for three years. Partly because the winter and wet spring weather here lasts a long time and partly because much to the chagrin of one of my ... (posted Dec 26, 8:36pm)

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My Christmas of Solitude: Day 2 : Merry Sniffle Sneeze Merry (posted Dec 25, 8:13pm)

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My Christmas of Solitude: The First 24 Hrs : I offered the whole team some tea and they got the other two guys from the other suite being worked on this morning and when one of them came in here – where I was playing a DJ Vadim disc very loudly by request – he said, “That’s good music, I’m with two old ladies listening to Christmas Carols.” (posted Dec 24, 10:42pm)

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500 Words of Fiction: Okay Then : Still. She was a mess, and he was just sitting there in his car like everyone else behind and in front of him, like the guy who might as well be him in his car beside him. But what the hell could he do? (posted Dec 23, 8:13pm)

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*Sigh* : The boyo goes back to his dad’s tomorrow. I am wrestling demons and plans and possibilities. And maybe a virus. (posted Dec 22, 10:51pm)

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Birthday 2009: Part II : Wherein this octopus goes on a small birthday safari...... (posted Dec 21, 3:44pm)

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Birthday 2009: Part I : Wherein this octopus finds that things do not go quite to plan...... (posted Dec 20, 9:44pm)

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The Perfect Wedding Song : It does not pretend to be anything it isn’t. It has joy, it has tenderness. It has a catchy chorus with a nice message. And there are Muppets. (posted Dec 19, 8:55pm)

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At the Staff Party II : Best of Holidailies When we are around each other conversation is pretty easy even if my oldest friendship is two years older than he is and I don’t even try to stop myself from saying so if it comes up in conversation. (posted Dec 18, 8:40pm)

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Not One Word of a Lie : There is a pirate ship, replete with canon, in my kitchen. (posted Dec 17, 9:10am)

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Waiting Up : Waiting up for something I can’t name but I can taste. I can feel. Like when you lick the skin between your thumb and forefinger and then shake on the salt (posted Dec 16, 1:31am)

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Barney Haunts Me : My ex bro-in-law throws one of his more quizzical, comical, baffled looks at me. We had been exchanging looks like that across that table for years and this one was very well-grounded because I have not ever since his heavily medicated purple and green inception said anything kind or even accepting about Barney. (posted Dec 15, 12:35pm)

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Confession : ...I want to give without fear to someone who is not afraid of me or of failure and I think about this a lot because it’s what I always wanted and what I’ve never had. Because overcoming failure is the best part of anything and failure is inevitable... (posted Dec 14, 11:41pm)

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Well, Ernie, Tonight I Actually Do : There are kisses and cuddles and we built a new train track together. He built his part, I built mine. His is a long stretch of track that crosses the entire length of the living room until it hits a wall. Mine is bendy and twisty with roundtables and split tracks and all manner of ways to navigate over bridges, ... (posted Dec 13, 9:30pm)

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500 Words of Fiction: So Pretty : I turned on the rear defrost. The back window was all frosted over and I had turned on the rear defrost. It’s always amazed me that those little lines can melt ice. Little lines. Thin little lines. (posted Dec 12, 9:12am)

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Not On Thursdays : I think the only reason I have been able to handle his absences is because I work with kids. I leave my son with his father, I go to work and then I get there and I’m surrounded by babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kids… (posted Dec 11, 9:42am)

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“Love Is The Answer”: Mark Twain or John Lennon? You Decide : Essentially, he wrote that though he definitely thinks the world is a cess pool of cowardice, stupidity and failure – his own included – he also staved off the feeling, held it at bay and kept himself from becoming “comprehensively and uncompromisingly odious,” out of love and respect for his wife. (posted Dec 10, 8:42am)

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Notes to All & Sundry From a Cranky Bear : The road signs that light up with bright yellow moving arrows big enough to be SEEN FROM SPACE indicating a lane closure three blocks ahead don’t mean speed up and try to cut in as close to the front of the line as possible. (posted Dec 9, 4:27pm)

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You Are Not The Boss of My Imagination : Best of Holidailies If your partner or stage-mate approaches you in the posture of a monkey and starts to make monkey sounds you do NOT look at them and say, "You are not a monkey." You feed them a banana. You grind an organ and see what kind of dance might happen (you might wind up choreographing something the Joffrey Ballet would be ... (posted Dec 8, 8:05pm)

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Liberty : I was in New York a while back. Hot summer. Tumult. Turmoil. Had some plans to do some things that didn’t work out and I found myself sad and worried and sitting in Battery Park. In the grass, staring at a pigeon until he stared back. (posted Dec 7, 1:24pm)