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A small but passable life.

by Neogy Titwhistle

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March 15, 2018

Pointless entry?

After coffee and reading this morning I had to make a return trip to the grocery store. I needed egg noodles for a recipe and Mom needed donuts for a street breakfast tomorrow morning. And of cou...


March 14, 2018

Errands.

62 degrees in here at 8am this morning after having the window open all night. Coffee and reading this morning. I made a round of errands all by myself. The bank, Walgreens, the library, the gro...


March 13, 2018

Living vicariously.

So, I woke up this morning and grabbed the clock . . . 7:54. Okay. I got dressed, made my bed (military indoctrination), and went in the house to put on the coffee. Mom said, “Why are you up earl...


March 12, 2018

Road trip?

The Ben Bova books are a series called “Star Quest” this fourth one was published in 2017. I started it this morning with coffee. Mom and I headed out at 10am. We went on a quest for Sunday brunc...


March 10, 2018

Or not.

I finished reading “Apes and Angels” by Ben Bova today. That is the third book in the series. I don’t know if series is the right word. All the books could stand alone, if need be, but still foll...


March 06, 2018

Why not?

I know I wrote an entry on the 4th. Yesterday I did not. I’m not sure what I did yesterday. But today, after coffee and reading I made a quick trip to the grocery store for a gallon of milk. I th...


March 04, 2018

Not really.

Not really sure the point of writing another entry so soon after the last, but hey I ain’t got much else to do. This morning it was coffee and starting the third Ben Bova book of the series. This...


March 03, 2018

"Mixed weight couples"?

An article I stumbled onto on huffpost was titled- “10 things to never ask a mixed weight couple”. What. The. Fuck. Yeah, I read it. Who’s not tempted to? Apparently, morbidly obese women who’ve ...


March 02, 2018

Mission accomplished.

Okay. Got it done. After coffee this morning I headed over to the insurance office. The new homeowner’s policy was ready for me to sign. Final numbers: car insurance was $1270 annually, now $452...


March 01, 2018

A little manic?

Well, things had to be done which meant I had to put down the book and get out of this chair. I didn’t want to, but needed to. The insurance was due on the car the current bill was for $1270 for ...


February 25, 2018

Debate won?

I could say I’ve won the debate. The debate? Yeah, the dorm debate of the late seventies titled basically in various renditions- “Disco or Rock N’ Roll Forever?” I stumbled upon this while stumb...


February 16, 2018

No opinion.

February 12- I just didn’t have a reason not to so I was up and out the door by 6am this morning. I was wearing my hiking socks for the second time during the last nine plus months and I put on t...


February 08, 2018

Gray Man fail.

I went to the hospital today and sat for a bit, helping Mom with her lunch. I talked to the nurse for a bit. I left and came home to listen to NPR. I was pretty much stuck to the landline. Mom ca...


February 07, 2018

Waiting, again.

One, two, three more days of the same routine. Coffee, reading, and lying by the pool. Today was different. I went in the house at my usual 8am-ish to put on the coffee. Mom is sometimes already ...


February 03, 2018

Just like every day.

I didn’t really notice the date yesterday. It was the 38th anniversary of my first marriage. The first practice one, on Groundhog Day. The second one was on April Fool’s Day. Oh, and I forgot to ...


February 02, 2018

Some nuggets.

We’ll call today a normal day. Coffee. Some reading. Lying by the pool listening to NPR. Yeah, something like that. Some nuggets from the airwaves: January 2018 was the third warmest on record fo...


February 01, 2018

Granny Nanny?

Calm. Calm routine. Calm weather. After coffee and more of the biography reading this morning I went once again to Walgreen’s for more cough syrup for Mom. I keep telling her she needs to get rid...


January 30, 2018

A record,

Yesterdays high temperature was a record setting 82 degrees. I didn’t go out. The wind was blowing. I’m not really a fan of wind, no matter how warm. I’ve spent too many years in the Llano Estaca...


January 28, 2018

Too sweet!

I did make it to the pool for a couple of hours yesterday. It had warmed up to 75 degrees. This morning after coffee I made a quick trip to Walgreen’s for some cough medicine for Mom. She’s had t...


January 27, 2018

11:58 pm?

Okay, first of all. The open diary re-launch. Forget it. OD was dying before it was dead and now Bruce is trying to re-animate the corpse. Fuck him. A metaphor may be called for here. Take a cit...


January 23, 2018

f(x)=x+2

I’ve been sitting right here since I scribbled the last entry. I watched a TEDx talk by some guy who said that the grade one makes in high school algebra class is directly correlated to future e...


January 19, 2018

The usual.

This morning was coffee and more of the biography. I put a stew together for the crockpot using a couple of pounds of steak meat I’d cubed and stashed in the freezer. A can of carrots, a can of c...


January 18, 2018

Why not?

I laid in bed from 10pm until 8am. I may have got some sleep. I know I dreamt a bit. I then spent the day sitting right here in this chair. It was warm enough to go out and do something. It alwa...


January 17, 2018

A different perspective.

I probably could’ve returned to poolside this afternoon, but nah. I went to mail a letter and went by the pool and it looked kind of crowded. Maybe another day. There’ll be plenty. Snow. Cold. Ic...


January 16, 2018

Day 21,697

Coffee with a few dozen pages read of the biography this morning. Chef-Boy-R-Dee Beefaroni for lunch. A few hours lying by the pool under a partly cloudy sky with an ambient air temperature of 70...


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