Thursday, September 28, 2017

Hurricanes Cause Change In Plans

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So we had planned this vacation in Florida for the summer. We were supposed to be going at the end of July, at least, that's when our ti...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Now That's A Pretty Song

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Dominion Road by The Mutton Birds, from their compilation album Flock: The Best of The Mutton Birds . If you've never heard The Mutton B...

LIRR Fiasco

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So yesterday the commuters attempting to catch the 8:58 am connection at Jamaica for Atlantic Terminal were witness to a particularly egregi...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Now That's A Pretty Song

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Grand Hotel by Regina Spektor, from the album Remember Us To Life . I was driving home from my monthly Delta Green RPG manly high-stakes p...
Friday, August 04, 2017

Dried Fish

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Blimey, where did all these cobwebs and silverfish come from? As the reader - long-abandoned by the humble scribe - will know both the land ...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

More LIRR bleeptery

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And the inconvenience and incompetence goes ever on and on High winds have blown across Long Island all last night and most of today. As a r...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Back To The Same Old ****

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One. bleep ing. Day. That's how long I was back in New York before the LIRR started bleep ing me about. I had spent the last nine days i...
Tuesday, January 03, 2017

The Scooter Debacle

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The sad tale of Mark's Snapped-In-Two Car Fiasco reminds me of a tale from both our mis-spent youths, when we were callow youths of 16....

Losing It

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This morning a large, blocky, red truck bearing information in blue paint barreled past me. In every way it was reminiscent of a Fire Depart...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

That Was Christmas, That Was

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Ho Ho Ho! Will This Day Never End? The house seemed very sad, small and quiet this year with no Stevieling in it. We barely managed to get ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

A Christmas Story

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At this time of year I am minded of the fact that when the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve stretches between weekends, British...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

A Christmas Carol

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It is a little-known slander, completely unsupported by any facts whatsoever, that Bing Crosby once had a flirtation with "flower power...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Uninsipred

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Haven't felt much like posting of late. Stuff's been happening. I just haven't been minded to write about it. A lassitude brough...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Status Report

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Mood : Onshore, gusting westerly with light showers and thunderstorms overnight. What I'm Listening To Now : High Pitched Whistling, Ins...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Now That's A Pretty Song

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Baby, Now That I've Found You by Alison Krauss, from the album Now That I've Found You: A Collection . A stripped-down acoustic ver...

And The Leaving's Gonna Get Me Down

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So it's been a while, during which more annoying stuff happened at me; I will speak here of The Florida Relocation Annoyance. The Stevie...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

The Very Definition Of Useless

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From the Wikipedia article linked to by the phrase hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic : The hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic was a t...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

This Sort Of Thing Happens A Lot To Me

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Me: I don't want to set the world on fire ... Policeman : Then why are you carrying two five gallon cans of regular unleaded gasoline,...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

Not With Both Hands, A Map And A Sign Saying “This Way To Your Own Arse”

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Once again I am put in the position of having to charge three quarters of an hour of lateness to my vacation time accruals because of a ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

A Grim Reminder

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I couldn't persuade Mrs Stevie I had Beri-Beri or Dengue Fever and so I was forced to accompany her to a wedding reception on Saturday ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Anatomy Of A Fiasco

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Last week I was the epicenter of a confluence of screw-up the likes of which the world hasn't seen since it got biffed by another planet...
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