bare yellow bulb, vol 1

a bright day cold windy very windy a bright cold windy day just the sort of day made for starting over

it was cold then and the air was full of snow then and seamless clouds reflected orange city lights and made a violent sky on a violent nigh...

it wasn't something that bothered her like it would bother other people. i mean, to be bothered by something, you have to understand tha...

a few years back, i decided to run 2000 miles in one year. it's not as random as you might think, but i can see how you'd think that...

looking back over last year's booklist and seeing the lifeguard manual reminded me that i did, in fact, become a lifeguard last year. go...

24 books this year, an even 2 per month. not a bad total, but only 2 non-fiction, disappearing spoon and the lifeguard manual. i'd like...

currently: complete: the disappearing spoon [sam kean] the language of bees [laurie r. king] the god of the hive [laurie r. king] flash and ...

it's not so much that i'm the jump-to-conclusions type as that i am simply INTJ. i have what you'd call a high need for closure....

one of my coworkers is brilliant. he is smart enough to realize there are a lot of things he doesn't know but wise enough to kindly expl...

bees live in hives all their wee short lives. bees make sweet honey but don't get any money. bees buzz around to fly above the ground. b...

we went to see the new sherlock holmes movie last night and contrary to the findings of all the professional reviewers, we found it highly e...

....lights - decorations - boiled custard - russell stovers - oranges - nuts in the shell - candy canes - santas lap - bourbon - fanny battl...

12 drummers drumming 11 pipers piping 10 lords a'leaping 9 ladies dancing 8 maids a'milking 7 swans a'swimming 6 geese a'lay...

and then he said, " We might, for example, set a goal of blogging once a day just in case, serendipitously, something beautiful strikes...

i am fascinated by dead air. it rarely happens anymore because radio stations, like everything else, are nearly completely automated. one so...

skip a rock skip a payment skip it skip it to my lou skip a rock skip a payment skip it skip it to my lou if someone told you something told...

remember what i was saying the other day about the wax in my ear? wells, i got this box of stuff called 'murine ear wax removal system...

it's that time of year again. enjoy! good things come in small packages. it's a bengals christmas.

today i heard a story on NPR about eric whitacre's virtual choir. apparently it's not a new thing, just new to me. maybe new to you?...

just saw a commercial for this new show called 'work it' which pretty much looks like a remake of 'bosom buddies' which was ...

take responsibility. give credit. ........................ if only for the sake of the things you thought you'd do when you were just a ...

and then she goes, "there's a wax plug in your ear." "what?" haha. hahaha. ha. get it? like, what?, i can't hear...

i went to target to purchase a baby shower gift and came home with a pack of underpants, a half gallon of milk, a bag of pretzels... and a b...

there's this place i like to hang out online. i like the banter, the camaraderie. sometimes we have serious discussions. sometimes we ju...

if you wanted to purchase a gift for me, you could purchase for me a cardigan sweater. make it a warm one, a soft one, not itchy. turn cold ...

the day was actually going pretty well til i ran up on a curb and mangled my sweet car. why did i go in that way?! why didn't i make sur...

thought i was going to watch 'once upon a time' off the tivo but forgot that it comes on sundays not fridays so there wasn't one...

if i reach out my hand to you will you reach out to me will you meet me in the middle where the others used to be reach out across the ocean...

when i walked out of the dentist office, there were two women and a girl in the hallway. the girl was maybe 3, 4 years old. one of the women...

heard on NPR today that the government holds the key to job creation and then i heard that the US postal service is cutting 200,000 jobs. sa...

when we say "communication" we mean "prose" and the more important the communication, the more prosaic it becomes. chatt...

we were watching this newsmag on the telly and they were showing some sort of community agency in some city handing out 'free' bicyc...

the vandy football team took it to wake forest yesterday to become eligible for a bowl not titled "quiz". [arguably, both vandy an...

i came in here to address seasonal holiday cards, so of course instead i am pillaging my co-buxers. currently, i am pondering how some peopl...

hello. did you miss me? yeah, you probably didn't even notice i've been away. well, except for mr alfie over there in the corner wit...

you & i. us here. this thing where i write and you read. we might be on a bit of a break on account of i am fairly busy just now. on the...

reading 'the god of the hive' i realised i'd missed the book before. there were too many references to a story i didn't know...

currently: the disappearing spoon [sam kean] the language of bees [laurie r. king] complete: the god of the hive [laurie r. king] flash and ...

although you'll find differing calculations across the world wide webernet, the most prevalent estimate is that less than 1% of the worl...

my fitness has gone to hell in a handbasket. i lost all motivation to lift weights several weeks ago, and in the past couple weeks i've ...

i didn't go to work today. instead, i went to the doctors office for yet another test to determine if i have asthma. the doctors have al...

on the way home i got rear-ended. in my CAR. gosh, you are a perv. there was a delay up ahead, and so i was phoning my old man to tell him t...

so i am watching "once upon a time" which is a new television show starring gennifer goodwin. why do i like the show? let me count...

black friday makes me sad. this year, some stores are rolling back into thanksgiving - opening at 10pm or midnight. thanksgiving remains the...

i wanted to tell you a funny story about something that happened at today, but nothing funny happened at work, nothing funny happened on eit...

today i received an email about a $92k wire transfer where to finalize the transaction, i merely needed to complete the paperwork, but i dec...

i heard something on NPR today that i wanted to share with you. too bad i cannot remember what it was. maybe it was the story out of seattle...

this guy called brett ratner was supposed to produce the 2012 academy awards broadcast. he directed the new movie tower heist and when aske...

the US census bureau is the agency that provides the info about how many folks in the USA are living below the "poverty line". the...

currently: the disappearing spoon [sam kean] the god of the hive [laurie r. king] complete: flash and bones [kathy reichs] jane eyre [charlo...