Category: Life

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Who was rocking those eighties?

You like to look good, don’t you?

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Haiku: Complacency

Complacency

Industrial Idyll
(Photo credit: Till Krech, Berlin)

A contemplative
moment becomes the method —
don’t get too comfy.


You know that moment you realize that you’re slacking, and you fear that you’re going to lose whatever it is you’re working for to unseen forces encroaching just beyond your immediate horizon? I’m having one of those weeks. It may be due to the fact that we have been living without Internet service in our new home and that makes it difficult to keep up; fortunately, that will be taken care of today. But will that dissuade the beast at my horizon?

Polychromatic planet!

. . . because I’m almost certain that you have a favorite color.

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Catching waves in the closest ocean

Do you believe in multitasking? (more…)

Weekly Photo Challenge Haiku: Beginning II

Beginning II

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Back to work — no prob.
After running the gauntlet,
I welcome this life.


Well, after two weeks off it’s finally time to return to what is considered to be normal. In some ways I’m looking forward to it – training on the Mazak laser cutting machines, earning my wages again and not getting paid through a magically finagled combination of holiday pay and paid time off. My widdershins world is running rightways again. The thing I will miss most is being able to spend the day at home with my ladies, Mme Ross and the wee one.

This post was prompted by this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge.

Weekly Photo Challenge Haiku: Beginning I

Beginning I

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Box by box unpacked,
a space for writing is shaped —
finding my feng shui.


We have so much to do when we are moving from one house to the next. I, for one, didn’t think to call the cable company until a few days before closing and so of course we have to wait until Wednesday to get our Internet hooked up. I’m posting from the phone for now, and forsaking formatting!

This post was prompted by this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge.

Haiku: Culmination

Culmination

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For the moment I’ll
be incommunicado–
today is the day.



Today is closing day. Our house is empty and for a short while we will technically be homeless. I’ll be a busy man, and then pretty soon We will be back on daily life’s sweet rhythm. As for the picture – well, I had the pleasure of staying in this room on two occasions when this hibiscus had bloomed; surely it’s a sign from the Creator.

People Are Hilarious: the Smexxi Beast!

I’m thinking about this fun kind of post I might call something like People Are Hilarious. A photo of something that makes me want to laugh at someone.

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Case in point: I was headed out to the new Clan Ross home this morning with a load of family treasures and found myself sitting at a light behind one Sexy Mexican . . . or is it smelly Mexican? Smelly sex? Is it portmanteau of both smelly and sexy, as in “I am one smexxi sumgun?” I don’t know, but I’m thinking this is a great example of an unfortunate vanity plate choice. And what’s worse is that this person, when applying for the plate, has to explain what it means. What was that like, and how shamelessly and glibly did they blurt it out?

Here’s an idea: this person’s next vanity plate should say SMOOFUS.