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Runaway trains! Antiques! Food! Pies! What a weekend!

(UPDATED below.) I spent a muchly-deserved, muchly-anticipated long weekend over the Thanksgiving holiday. It was a great time. Details and photos and such after the break. This is a “daily life” type of post, with a bunch of photos. But … Continue reading

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Five years….

Groovy Boy!, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. How can it possibly have been five years since I last held my son? Time is awfully relentless. Wow. This photo was taken just days before he decided that he’d had about enough of … Continue reading

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Things I’m Thankful For

I’ll be spending some quality time with The Family over the next few days — first just with The Wife, as my parents take The Daughter for two nights, and then with all of us for the rest of the … Continue reading

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I guess I’ll wait for my unavoidable doom, then

Via Palgolak: Yeah…I’m screwed. No, I don’t think that a dip pen is likely to slow down an encroaching zombie. Sure, it’s nice and sharp so maybe I could use the pen to stab the zombie in the brain, but … Continue reading

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It’s like the song, George! Downtown! There’s your answer!

Here at Casa Jaquandor, our regular day to go to the library is Thursday. That’s carved in stone. We always go on Thursday. Except for weeks when Thursday is some kind of holiday, such as the upcoming Thanksgiving Day…or last … Continue reading

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A word picture

The woman who entered the cafe was tall and thin, dressed in tight jeans, a form-fitting hot pink t-shirt, and a long black cardigan. In the style of the day, she had a wispy lavender scarf twirled around her neck. … Continue reading

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A Vacation Report (or, Recent Adventures in Overalls)

A couple of weeks back, I took a short vacation. OK, it was actually a five-day weekend, but I called it a vacation, because that’s what it felt like. Below is a really long recitation of stuff I did on … Continue reading

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Thirty Nine!!!

Thirty-nine years ago today, George Lucas was sitting at his desk, working on something, when he got a strange feeling. He looked up, away from his work, and glanced out the window at the dusky sky. He couldn’t quite put … Continue reading

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Holding pattern

Sorry, folks, but I’m nursing a bit of a cold that has sapped my enthusiasm for doing anything other than watch a bunch of reruns of The Big Bang Theory, eat ice cream, and dream of swimming in a giant … Continue reading

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“The City of Dead Works” (an annual repost)

I re-post this every year on this date. It is the first piece of fiction I wrote after 9-11-01. “The City of Dead Works” There is never any rest for me, the Ferryman of the Dead. I pole my barge … Continue reading

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