Monthly Archives: November 2013

Bandwagons, Flotsam / Jetsam

A good & lazy day

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Today I slept until 10. Then I watched the season 4 premiere of “My Little Pony.” It was both tense and exciting.

Other things I did today:

  • Finished “To Say Nothing of the Dog” by Connie Willis. It was like a time-travel Jeeves & Wooster mashup. It was a little slow-going at first, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • So I went to the library and picked up three more Connie Willis books (“The Doomsday Book,” “Blackout” and “All Clear.”).

  • We watched the “Doctor Who” 50th anniversary special, and it made me feel so many feelings.

  • Ate a lot of cashew brittle.

  • And now I’m watching the Mizzou game. M-I-Z …
    • Bandwagons

    Looking on the bright side

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    This morning I dropped a full bottle of shampoo on my pinkie toe.

    And then I discovered that the company that makes an integral component of our Top Secret Family Recipe went bankrupt, and the company that bought them no longer makes the integral component. (I may have cried on the phone to the representative of a snack-foods company.)

    And then the delicious pizza I was reheating for lunch burnt to a crisp.

    But at least I live in a world where things like this happen: