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When organization is key

Posted in commute, life, technology, thoughts, travel on April 20, 2008 | 13 Comments »

 
On my way back to the house the other morning I realized where my wife’s keys were (also where she wouldn’t know they were) and that there was no way she’d have gotten out the door in time. I didn’t know it yet, but it was only one link in the mayhem.
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Ka-WHUMP! Bark-bark-bark-bark!

Posted in animals, commute, dogs, gardening, life, pets, travel on March 27, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Sometime shortly after 7 last night, we had finished dinner and were transitioning toward evening activities when we heard a loud “Ka-WHUMP!” from the street. We felt it, too, especially the dogs, who immediately adrenalized into watchdog action: “bark-bark-bark-bark!” and the alarm was sounded. Almost simultaneously, the sirens began.
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Emergency Preparedness

Posted in beer, commute, life, nature, rants, thoughts, travel, walking on February 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »

If the world were to begin shaking and tumbling and the streets of the Financial District filled with shards of broken glass falling from the office highrises, I would take some comfort, were I to survive and be trapped high in a building, in knowing there was a first aid kit with high-quality anesthetic near [...]

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Akron Car Theft & Brake Repair

Posted in commute, culture, e-scrapbook, life, technology, thoughts, travel on January 30, 2008 | 12 Comments »

I’m not sure why this story stays with me. It isn’t just the stealing. I guess it’s that the thieves fixed a damn-near 20-year-old beater.
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Anthropomorphic Motoring

Posted in commute, culture, humor, life, pets, technology, thoughts, travel on January 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »

I have a coworker who gets lost easily; I’ll call her A. About four of us were hired at the same time, working between two buildings, a lovely old well-ornamented Beaux Arts building and a modern concrete and glass box, connected by various corridors and passageways. We have passcards to beam us into the places [...]

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A message for azahar

Posted in commute, dogs, humor, life, pets, travel on January 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’ve meant to tell you, azahar, I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the video you linked for me: the Man-Cold.
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Après moi, le déluge

Posted in beer, commute, life, music, nature, walking on January 4, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Whooo-wheee! it’s storming out here.
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Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Gloom of Neighborhood

Posted in commute, culture, travel, walking on November 28, 2007 | 8 Comments »

There is a post office at the corner of Hyde and Golden Gate in San Francisco where you cannot mail a letter.
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Onward, Foggily, into Obscurity

Posted in animals, commute, dogs, life, nature, pets, rants, thoughts, walking on November 2, 2007 | 8 Comments »

Incredible fog this morning. When I got up at what my clock radio says is 4:40 but which I know to be 5:40 (damned Congress futzing with daylight savings time! I’m stumbling over dogs in the dark and it’s their $#%& fault!) I looked out our large bedroom window and the streetlights had that hazy [...]

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At first, just puppies and kittens

Posted in animals, commute, dogs, life, nature, pets, travel, walking on October 12, 2007 | 11 Comments »

At first it was just puppies and kittens. They bounced off the pavement and ran down the gutters with a hissing sound. Then they grew bigger, tabbies and Pekinese, and wilder, Maine Coon and Schnauzers pouring down, and walking round a building I was hit with a gust of wind and doused with whippets, the [...]

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