Entries from February 2008
Down
Tonight in Minnesota it snowed and then because that doesn’t make driving challenging enough it also decided to rain on top of that and then get cold enough to freeze. As my dad always likes to say, it was slickery.
Much to my own sense of pride, I decided to drive to class in the weather. [...]
An argument
I’ve discovered that if you don’t want chocolate milk accidentally spilled on your books, you should probably not leave them littered on every surface of your abode. So this afternoon in lieu of doing anything really productive, I sat and put my books away while Liam and Nolie watched Wow Wow Wubbzy!
Nolan quickly tired of [...]
Overheard in Shakopee: The Heartbreak Edition
“I will keep the Batman ninja sword at my other house,” Nolan said.
“No,” Cade said. “We aren’t going back to that house ever ever ever ever again. We live here now.”
“NO!” Nolan shouted. “I want to go back where we started from.”
Small rewards
I stumbled downstairs this morning before work, hoping to talk to Sister #3 about our plans for the day. We’re going to be taking this one day at a time for right now.
As soon as I sat down in the La-Z-Grrl, Liam was at my side. He hugged my thigh. “I woll you.”
“What?” I [...]
Roommates
It seems to me that when monumental events happen in my life I can never find the words I need.
Tonight Sister #3 and the Tibbles moved into Supergenius HQ. They needed a safe place to go and I’m the only one with the room to house them all. Everyone is safe and nobody’s hurt, [...]
I bet I could tell the difference too
Choosey nephews choose Skippy.
Read moreLet this be a lesson to you
If you go to a liquor store in Shakopee, MN at 9 a.m. and buy a six-pack of beer they will look at you a little askance. When you try to explain how you need it to pay off a debt you have with your co-worker Dougs*, they will flatten their mouths into a thin [...]
Read moreOne for Jags whose birthday is today
My favorite memory of Jags used to be the night when she told us about how she hung out at The Longhorn. I have a fascination with the Longhorn. A bar that I have built up in my mind as the Valhalla of Minnesota rock and roll. Whenever anyone talks about the Longhorn I sit [...]
Read moreTurn back the hands of time
My body has decided that no matter what time we crash and burn that 7:30 is a perfectly reasonable hour to be awake. To make matters worse my subconscious has decided that we’re really worried about our last day of work so we keep having last-day-of-work anxiety dreams.
Last night’s featured Jen from Dawson’s Creek and [...]
Some thoughts for this Saturday
Getting up after 11, even though you stayed up after 3 reading The Learners is a good way to ruin the day. You spend the whole day in some sort of funk-like malaise with no drive to do anything but sit in your La-Z-Grrl and watch “The Big Chill” which you’d never seen before this [...]
Read moreA review of Rick Kupchella’s book by Cade, age 6
Cade climbed up onto the loveseat next to me, with two books in his arms.
“Here.” He pushed the books toward me. “You like books. You can have these.”
“Oh,” I read the titles and was surprised to see local TV news anchor Rick Kupchella’s name on the cover. “Who did you get these from?”
“I don’t know,” [...]
Why is corporate America looking for rock stars?
I’ve noticed an alarming trend in the want ads lately. It seems “rock star” is the adjective du jour when describing the employees that companies want to hire. Even Hell, Inc. is looking for “rock stars” now that they got rid of all of us mid-tempo balladeers.
It’s an interesting choice of words, and maybe [...]
An epistolary slap in the face
Yesterday afternoon we all got letters of termination, reminding us that in case we forgot, after March 3rd, we were no longer employed. It was an epistolary slap in the face.
Holy shit. I’m not going to have a job.
Since November 29, I’ve been playing at being unemployed. Pondering the possibility of not having a [...]
The Rake for sale?
Fascinating read of the day? The MNSpeak thread on the possibility that The Rake is for sale.
Read moreThe penguin in great peril
When we last left our intrepid interspecies lovers, they were enjoying a lot of togetherness nestled on the bedside table. Since then their love has grown. Now Madison has decided he is in charge of Pinguino’s well-being.
His new trick is to monitor the water that fills Pinguino’s belly. When Madison has determined that the level [...]
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