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A Few Quick Things, vol. 864
My new phone is starting to freak me out a little. Last week it began showing me notifications around the time I leave for work that said things like, “Your drive to work today will take 39 minutes....
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We’re Heading To Atlantic City, And Don’t Like To Gamble! Will It Be A Good...
It seems improbable and somewhat bizarre, but Toney and I are apparently going to Atlantic City in a few days. It’s something we booked during the summer. And we don’t “book” things. I mean, seriously....
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We Canceled Our Trip And Repurposed The Money That Would Have Been Spent
We didn’t go to Atlantic City. We canceled at the last minute, for various reasons. High on the list: our kids apparently can’t be in the same room for more than 30 minutes without arguing. In fact, a...
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High Weirdness On The Subway! Volume 1
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A Few Quick Things, And Plans For Even More Things!
Happy new year, I guess. Whatever. Right now, I’m not feeling it. But I hope it’s going well for you. I really do. I’m writing this on my laptop at our dining room table drinking coffee that’s too...
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I’m Sleeping More Than Ever And Can’t Stay Awake! Please Help Me Escape This...
Can somebody please explain this to me? If I sleep from 2 am to 10 am, eight hours, I wake up swinging for the fences, feeling great. But if I sleep from midnight to 8 am, also eight hours, I’m...
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Have You Ever Lost, Sold, Or Gave Something Away That You Still Regret?
Many years ago, when we were still in Atlanta, Toney and I drove WAY out to the suburbs one Saturday afternoon to attend an open house at a new subdivision that was being built. I don’t know what...
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Toney Bought A New Bathroom Scale, And Nothing’s Been The Same Since
The way it started should’ve been an indicator. Last Thursday, I think, I was backing out the front door, leaving for work. After I got everything locked up tight, I took a step backward to allow the...
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Do You Own Every Episode Of Any TV Shows? And Do You Still Buy DVDs At All?
I know, better than most, that DVDs (including Blu-ray) are pretty much yesterday’s news. I worked in that industry for many years, and it’s quickly going the way of the Fotomat. Not that it makes me...
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A Few Quick Things, vol. 71
We got roughly a half-inch of snow here at Chez Kay from the Storm of the Century(tm). Apparently we were literally on the outer edge of that thing, because everyone was clobbered just a few miles...
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A Few Quick Things, vol. 20
Yesterday I had to piss to like Man o’ War, and stopped at a Sheetz to find sweet relief. The place was pandemonium, and I walked in with two doucheketeers approximately 19 years of age. If John Hughes...
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A Few Quick Things, Vol. 19
While the Super Bowl was underway last night I watched the latest episode of Hell’s Kitchen (that obnoxious Jackie needs to go), two episodes of Restaurant Startup (why??), and two hours of The Killing...
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Say Again?! Welcome To My Big Fat Muffled Week
My sound-catchers have shit the bed, my friends. My dad has had trouble with his ears all his life, and passed that gift along to his oldest son. Yes, it’s nothing short of fantastic. So, I’m an old...
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The State Of My Fat Ass, vol. 42
I’m suffering a mopey low-grade yuck. It’s been hanging on for more than two weeks now, and enough is officially enough. It’s one of those annoying situations where you don’t feel horrible, but you...
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Random Notes and Pathetic Excuse-Making, Straight from the Bunker!
Hello Surf Reporters! Sorry I disappeared again. I won’t bore you with the reasons, but it’s mostly work-related. Plus, it took me a long time to get over that weeks-long yuck I found myself trapped...
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Have You Been The Victim Of Vandalism? Me Too! Let’s Share Our Stories
Somebody threw an egg at my car. And that’s some level-three bullshit, right there. What the crap, man? It apparently happened overnight, Saturday into Sunday, while the car was parked in our driveway....
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Iggy in the Buff, Millennials in the Workplace, Giant Food, and How Was Your...
Have you seen this?? It’s Iggy Pop posing nude for artists at the New York Academy of Art. I read a headline about it several days ago, and thought, “Yeah, OK.” All my emotion sensors are burned out...
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In Celebration of Biting Off More Than We Can Chew!
When I moved to Greensboro, NC, at the age of 22 or 23 (there’s some debate) I was driving a yellow Chevy Luv truck, very similar to the one in this ad. It remains one of my all-time favorite vehicles....
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A Few Quick Things: Baseball, Propane, Bad Beer, and Automatic Movie...
I’m in the middle of Day Four of a big nine-day vacation from my job. Back in January Toney and I scheduled the time off, with plans of taking a trip to some beach to be named later. Then we spent what...
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I Know We’re Not Supposed To Say Things Like This, But Enough With All The...
I mean, I liked Prince too. You know, kinda-sorta. I saw him in concert twice, and own quite a few of his albums. But, enough is enough. We officially reached a saturation point on this deal sometime...
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