Waking Dream

To those who know me, it’s no real surprise that I am spasmodically obsessive. When I latch on to something, I fixate. I’ve taken some steps to avoid this – I don’t do puzzles, I stay away from most needlessly strenuous mental exercises, and I mostly read non-fiction. You can’t become fixated on non-fiction; it’s [...]

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Missed Opportunities

First off, I don’t remember how explicit I was on this…but I had surgery on my left achilles last Wednesday. It feel pretty good now – I’ve been off the sauce since Saturday, and as I type, I’ve had my foot in an un-elevated position for several straight minutes. It’s not even throbbing, exactly. It’s [...]

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Fortitude Wanes

A couple of nights ago, while lifting weights for the first time in a few weeks, I paused for a minute before my last set on the bench. It was, by the way, also my second set. I only really had a half an hour to do it. Would you like some excuses? I can [...]

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Ringing in the Season

I’m getting cornier as I get older. I’m starting to think that corny things are funnier now too. Jen doesn’t help, she laughs at me when I’m silly/stupid. She gets refined humor too, but she doesn’t make me work for it, so I stop at puns and hyperactive slap-stick dopiness. The hyperactive part is the [...]

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Vroom

There comes a time in every man’s life when his wife commandeers his brand new vehicle and he gets stuck driving a 1998 Civic. That time, dear readers, is apparently now.

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Stuck

For some reason, I’ve been sleeping on my back more than usual. I think it’s because there’s someone else in the bed – eventually I try to roll from one side to the other and run into an immovable object, forcing me to stop halfway. Last night, I woke up at around 4 AM, having [...]

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Just Like On TV

I had a strange thought walking into work this morning. Let’s be honest, it was more of a hobble. My left achilles is not doing well. I have a searing pain inside of it when I stretch. I feel it when I walk, it makes me short step. Needless to say, this is not good [...]

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Plummeting Hits

There have been many times that I’ve thought about writing something in the last few days. I don’t remember what I was thinking at the time. It’s sort of like dreams. You wake up at three in the morning with a clear recollection of the dream and you say to yourself (if you’re me at [...]

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Weekly Update

Many moons ago, probably about 40 now, I decided to stop posting links to other people’s blogs. People got insulted when I didn’t post theirs, but I couldn’t link everything, and people’s feelings got hurt, especially if I didn’t like what they wrote. This all applies to people that I knew in the past but [...]

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No Time Like The Present

The only time that I have available to write here is when I’m intentionally trying to be late for something. But let’s be honest. It’s not like I don’t have 15 minutes a day to write here. I do. I have 15 minutes. I probably have an full half hour, heck, maybe even a full [...]

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Please Christmas Don’t Be Late

One of the perks of having a wedding toward the end of December is that you get to piggy-back it with Christmas. We’re not fighting it. In fact, I’m currently vetting Christmas music. We hope to have around 10-15 Christmas songs intermixed in our playlist. I drive to and from work with the likes of [...]

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Lakes and Streams

Tomorrow Steve and I head north. Stop one is for a Yankees/Red Sox game with the old man at the new stadium. On Saturday, we head to mighty Maynooth, Ontario to stay at a hostel. Then, on to Algonquin Provincial Park for 4 days and three nights in the interior. Day one is Canoe Lake [...]

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Job’s Comforters

I used to write here all the time. Today, I had an awkward story that I wanted to get off my chest. I sent Jen a text about it, but she was at work. The story still remained, and I couldn’t move past it until I told someone. So I wrote it here. It’s pretty [...]

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Time, Flowing Like a River, Over a Waterfall

This morning I woke up at my normal 5:43 AM with my alarm. Having been awoken from what seemed like hours of restless, frustrating dreams, I determined that I would sleep more – a disturbing trend which has occurred a handful of times in the last several months. I set my alarm for 6:12, rolled [...]

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North By Northwest

Our plane leaves to come back to the hot and humid east coast in 4 hrs. It has been downright chilly here all week, with temps barely reaching 75, and plummeting into the upper 40s at night. Next time I’m bringing more than one long sleeve. In brief, this week we: Went to the space [...]

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Houses of the Holy

Summer of 1995. I, having just completed 8th grade, am the proud new owner of perhaps my 8th CD – Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. As was my custom, I listened to it maybe 10 straight times, indelibly imprinting every memory from that summer with that album. I popped it in while I did [...]

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The Swine Flu

On Thursday I was a little weaker than I should have been when lifting with Matt. On Friday, I was peeing too much (always a sign that my body is trying to flush something) and shivering occasionally. By Saturday I woke up feeling crappy. Let the record show, I would drive 4 hrs in 90 [...]

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Can Make It Anywhere

I went to NYC this past weekend with Jen and her friend from Oregon, bacon aficionado Dave Reed. We went to the Guggenheim, which made me want to slash funding to the arts, Lombardis, with their delicious pizza, and the always acceptable Gingerman. I got to see the first triumvirate of Katie, Bess and Lara [...]

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Sword Play

[Ed. note: somehow I didn't publish this last Thursday] Last week I had an awkward man moment centered on the art of handshaking. Today’s is a little more graphic. Here’s the scenario: I’m at a urinal, finishing up. Another guy is walking into the area, with enough time for me to leave and for he [...]

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Topics Wanted

The Martins have a blogroll running down the sidebar of their page. Whenever I see myself sliding down due to inactivity, I feel a twinge of guilt. I’m supposed to be the consistent one. Though everyone else waits 4 weeks (or 4-6 months) between posts; I’m supposed to be there, holding down the fort, resolute [...]

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