Tag Archives: Personal Blather

Is there some rule, like the Five Second Rule that applies to clothing rather than food? At what point does a removed shirt change from a prop in a seductive striptease to a pile of dirty laundry?

Driving in this morning I spotted something on a side street that freaked me out for a minute. It looked like a guy, in full motorbike gear, zipping along the sidewalk at roughly knee level. He was a block away and behind a row of parked cars, so I couldn’t see what he was riding, but he was nearly matching the speed of car traffic on Washtenaw. When it got to an intersection, I was able to spot that he was scooting along on a tiny racing motorcycle.
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So… How many people out there got hit in the head this weekend? And how many of us remember how it happened?

I’m on the first list, but gosh darn it if I failed to qualify for the second… All I know is that I’ve got a tender spot on the back of my head and a heck of a goose egg behind my right ear. My fiancee took a look at it last night and my scalp looks a bit abraded, so it must have been quite a whack. Pity that I don’t remember any of the details…
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I really really hate flies. And, unfortunately, the house has a minor plague of fruit flies. Little annoying buggers that you can barely see, but which drift into your eyes or up your nose. I think they can smell the sugar and the fruit in the gasses that the blueberry wine is giving off as it works. They tend to congregate around the carboy, even though they can’t get into it.
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At work this morning I took a picture of a bottle of some stuff called “Bone Wax.” Despite the name, it’s not actually a polishing compound… In fact, if you do a quick Google search, you’ll learn that Bone Wax is a sterile beeswax compound that is used for hemostasis of bone.

Which means practically nothing if you don’t speak medical.

Fortunately, you’ve got me here to provide a translation.

Basically, it’s skeleton spackle.
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A co-worker of mine who knows far more about cars than I do sent me a link to an Auto Week article about Porche’s latest SUV offering. You have to realize that when it comes to car news, I’m out-of-touch enough that I hadn’t realized that Porche made an SUV.
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RIP Wesley Willis.

There’s a big chunk of watermelon in the break room. It’s sitting there on a plastic plate with a picnic knife in it, waiting for people to hack off a chunk and snack away. The whole room has a faint whiff of sweetness from it. And I think it’s got to be the worst possible food to bring in to share with people at work.
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This will make no sense to anyone who doesn’t read the on-line comic “Ozy and Millie”

Good grief! I haven’t been this badly sunburnt since… Well, I don’t have an exact date or anything, but it’s been a very long time. Pre-high school somewhere. What’s really eerie is how sensitive the burnt skin is. It’s like I can feel individual threads in my shirtsleeves as they brush the back of my arm.
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