Monthly Archives: December 2002

Well, that was not a pleasant experience

The blood bank sent me home today without allowing me to donate, saying my blood pressure is too high. Continue reading

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It’s a By-Our-Lady* Good Thing

And now you know why it’s supposed to be such a bad swear-word. Continue reading

Posted in Genealogy, Personal History | 6 Comments

Lawn-mowing as displacement activity

The grass and the lawn mower don’t care whether I’m angry. Continue reading

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Assorted Christmas Day recipes

Colonial goose (leg of lamb); egyptian rice and lentils; süss-saures rotkraut; trifle Continue reading

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A very equivocal Christmas

I’ll have a go at a proper wrap-up post later, when I have matters better arranged. Continue reading

Posted in Minutiae | 4 Comments

That hurt . . .

I just managed to pinch my bad thumb—the one in which I shattered the bone twenty-something years ago, and which still has neuro after-effects—in a doorjamb. Continue reading

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Waiting . . . .

I particularly don’t care for them because I don’t like machinery trying to think for me. Continue reading

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My Ghods, this is tedious

The grunt work generated 791 several pages of HTML, which I must now go through, doing the fiddly bits. Continue reading

Posted in Genealogy, Personal History | 3 Comments

One woe doth tread upon another’s heel

Now the washing machine has burned out (it needs a new motor, clutch, and basket), which was to be expected after sixteen or seventeen years, but . . . as though I have money to be buying appliances now.

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Hugs aren’t going to fix this

Merry goddamn Christmas, Texas Workforce Commission. Continue reading

Posted in Jobless, Work (WORK!!?!??!) | 2 Comments