Folsom, UK

On Thursday, 5 of the 6 of us who work as a unit at work bought lottery tickets. We each kicked in 2 dollars and got a total of 10 tickets.  Yesterday I was thinking, “Won’t it be great if they announce that the RE division won?”  and then modified it to, “Won’t it be [...]

Choppy Friday

I got my dishes together and went to the local shelter to give them the 3 boxes and one bag of dishes.  I met the nun and was extremely grateful that while she thanked me, no mention was made of J3sus or any other religious figure.  I always find it awkward to cause an invocation [...]

Coming…soon

These days I am putting a lot of focus on the upcoming improvement in the seasons.  I tell myself that in 10 days daylight savings starts.  That in around three weeks Spring starts.  The in around a month, the Greenmarket fish monger will return and I will eat lovely seafood again.  Today the temperature is [...]

Tripping

Yesterday was a good trip upstate for a work-related project.  It was also an easy trip—all trains left their origins and arrived at their destinations on time, which is important when you’ve awakened before 5AM for your trip.
 
While I was waiting at Penn Station for my boss, I saw 2 panickers.  One woman had thought [...]

Ungrateful pigeons

I wasn’t going to post, but I realized that tomorrow I head up to Albany for an all day meeting.  Actually the travel time exceeds the meeting time, but that’s ok. It doesn’t happen too often.
I plan to donate my old dishes to a shelter run by the Cath church.  In responding to my inquiry [...]

Gift acquisition (almost)

For my b-day, at my request, a bunch of friends got me a gift certificate to Cr@te and B@rrel.  I went today to pick out dishes and flatware.  I had done my research online and since I don’t like to shop I got in and out of there pretty quickly.
Here are the dishes I chose [...]

Caution: crazy cat lady post

This week Frannie and I will celebrate 6 months of co-habitation.

In honor of FC Frannie Banana’s almost-6 months with me, I have decided to post some photos of her.  She took a gigantic leap onto a chair this morning and I missed that photo, but caught some other nice shots of her.

I often call call [...]

Dino Men

Last night I went to an event at Br00klyn Academy of Mus1c called Eat drink and be Literary. I had asked my friend K which of the authors she’d be interested in hearing and she chose J1mmy Breslin, which I was  happy with.  When you invite an almost-80-something year old columnist/author to speak, you get [...]

Happy bumping

My big thanks to Laura for sending me a big bday package with candy and brownies and coffee and all kinds of wonderful b-day goodies.  I love packages with lotsa stuff.  The candy is all gone, but I’m hoping to…um…control myself with the other goods.  And the pecan pralines were heavenly.
It was a bonus day because [...]

Baby F

The night before we left for PR, we went out to dinner and were walking home along a quiet avenue when we saw an older guy cross against the traffic light.  A car was coming slowly and didn’t stop for the man, who wasn’t pleased.
Here’s what he said:  You stupid fuck.  You stupid fucking fuck.  [...]