Category Archives: News

Just the news, big deals, not-so-big deals, birthday, anniversaries, announcements, mostly timely stuff. The news that applies to the personal world around me, not what you watch on cable or listen to on the radio.

Had to fight a cold over the weekend

My recent lack of posts wasn’t sadness or anything negative I couldn’t control, just my health dropping out a tad warning me about having too much fun: The B-52’s 40th Anniversary show (more one day) and then the following night … Continue reading

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Two thousand miles for 2019!

Not everything in the soon to be smaller, more resilient Maggi Republic is bad news. Today, I succeeded in passing the 2000-mile in a year mark on the indoor bike as per my spreadsheet tracking all exercise since 2011. Pretty … Continue reading

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So what’s with the mid-month header change?

After 20 years together and 16 years of marriage, Somara has asked to call it quits. Why? A gazillion reasons why on both sides and in some ways I was too cowardly to ask for this as my birthday present … Continue reading

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Another bird collides into my car in one year

I have no idea why it happened either time. Maybe birds have a thing against the Prius. Maybe birds have a thing against me. No, Tippi Hedren wasn’t my passenger. Yet again another made a kamikaze-like dive into my car. … Continue reading

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Dental Work #3 & #4: New fillings

The progress on repairing/rebuilding my teeth had to take a pause due to scheduling with the dentists and I forgot to mention the right side getting fillings while I was patching the “time holes” in the site. Today though was … Continue reading

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Harley’s first set of mpg stats are in

With the iPhone app Road Trip always takes the second fill up to be of any use when you buy a new car because I can’t remember why it doesn’t calculate the dealer’s gratis tank, doesn’t matter, the car’s computer … Continue reading

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Texas continues to lead in stupidity

Nevermind The Onion‘s ongoing dark joke about America, the Laboratory for Bad Ideas (the Texas Legislature) and Gov. Shitbag signed a series of laws to give Ammosexuals boner pills. These will soon go into effect, allowing morons to carry guns into … Continue reading

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Dental Work Extra: Root Canal not needed!

This morning I saw a specialist I was referred to by my dentist to make sure my anterior teeth 7-10, the busted ones on my upper jaw, are alive.  After a couple X-rays, including a really cool 3D take on … Continue reading

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Thanks for the wishes and all, mellow day

Took it mostly easy yesterday. Had to get up relatively early to have some finishing touches done to my new car, goop they put on the windshield to protect it from all the damned rocks and gravel here. Then I … Continue reading

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La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV Sensor

Firstly, as I’ve had to tell some strangers…this is not a camera! Walking around with a disguised camera without warning people is a dick move. Why do you think those other people were nicknamed Glassholes. This is a cool little … Continue reading

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Another toy tribute to a Caffe employee

Originally I wanted to make a Playmobil figure of Carlo as I’ve done for two other people at the Caffe who are very nice. The problem is that this chef wear a black outfit, not white. Besides being super difficult … Continue reading

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Officially welcome my new car Harley Quinn

I want to officially introduce my new car I have officially dubbed her Harley Quinn because her exterior is a nice red and interior is black. As you probably forgot, my original Prius C was Vixen to match a lesser … Continue reading

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Farewell Oz

Our friends’ kitty Oz passed away today. He had been suffering from kidney issues and putting him to sleep was the best option sadly. Oz’s fellow house cat Mika will miss him too, even when cats aren’t BFFs, they still … Continue reading

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Overcoming another round of the ‘fuckits’

Believe it or not, I didn’t coin this word, it came from my therapist. I still get taken aback when she drops an F bomb but she was on the money when I went “on strike” with the world last … Continue reading

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Dental Work #2: Cleaning the left side

Nothing too exciting regarding yesterday morning. The dentist and his assistant cleaned up the other side they didn’t work on earlier. The only change, after the right side, I got a prescription for special toothpaste. After this cleaning, the dentist … Continue reading

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