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Previously
- It wasn’t me. I have an alibi. November 8, 2025
- A quick and random thought about Josh Allen November 7, 2025
- Something for Thursday November 6, 2025
- Thoughts on Taylor Swift (a vlog!) November 5, 2025
- Tuesday Tones November 4, 2025
- A random fact I learned minutes ago November 3, 2025
- “I saw a UFO once….” November 2, 2025
- Dispatches from Planet Monti! November 2, 2025
- “People get ready, there’s a train a-comin’….” November 1, 2025
- MASS HYSTERIA!!! October 31, 2025
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A few things
I’m on vacation now, so I won’t be posting until Sunday at the earliest and Monday at the likeliest! Anyhow, a couple of things: :: Hecklers can ruin comedy shows — but sometimes comedians get the last laugh. (Salty language … Continue reading
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So this happened….
We adopted a retired racing greyhound. A dirty secret: I have never been around dogs much at all, having never owned one, and therefore I have always been very uncomfortable around them. I’m a cat person, through and through; some … Continue reading
Instaweeks!
Time to disappear again down the photographic rabbit hole! Let’s get the Flummoxing Felines out of the way first, shall we? And then there’s some recent food and such. The Daughter nagged me into deep dish pizza (I already don’t … Continue reading
I’m not interested in being “normal”.
Let everybody else be “normal”. I ain’t got time for that! I’m just gonna keep right on being weird, thank you very much.
Why I Am Terrible Today
My careful monitoring of essential fluid levels in the home had a misfire this morning. Luckily it’s Grocery Day!
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Buckets, the Bills, Stadiums, Pies, Sharkheaded girls: Some random opinions on some random stuff
Just a grab-bag of some thoughts on stuff going on…. :: I posted the following on a Facebook exchange debating the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. This wasn’t really in response to anything anyone specifically said, but more in response to … Continue reading
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Come all without, come all within…. (How can it possibly have been ten years?)
Little Quinn was born ten years ago today. He’ll never know, alas, what he has taught me about who I am and what kind of person I need to be. Likewise, I’ll never know, alas, what kind of person he … Continue reading
Of buckets and the dumping of the water therein
If you’ve lived beneath a rock of late, you may have missed a viral fundraising activity that’s going around the social media sites. I’m not even sure of the exact “rules”, but it’s all voluntary anyway, so it’s not like … Continue reading
A Feline Love Story
Yesterday morning I brought my computer down to the dining room table, where I did some work whilst enjoying my coffee. At one point I looked down, to my left, and saw that my parents’ Persian cat was hanging out … Continue reading
Dispatches from the Fair, 2014 edition
As another August starts to wind down, another iteration of the Erie County Fair recedes into memory. The Fair is one of our favorite things, and a source of a lot of bright and happy memories, all the way back … Continue reading



