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I’ve been meaning to write for a while, but you know how that goes. Now that I’m on vacation, I’m searching for things to do and writing here is a good time-killer. The past couple months have be...

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I’d meant to post this on or around Aug. 1, but forgot. I keep forgetting that this is here. Anyway I’ve now been doing this online diary thing for 20 years. Yes, 20. My first post: https://www.o...

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I have an iOS reminder set up for the second of every month. Flip my calendar. Write in Prosebox/OD. I go in fits and starts about complying with the notification. Since I moved (more on that b...

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A couple weeks ago I was told they were letting us work from home for a couple days because of the coronavirus stuff. No big deal, I figured. My plan: work from home on Friday, a slower day, to w...

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I wasn’t hired for one job at work for which I was well qualified. They hired someone who’d been there for a year, not seven. There is another job opening where I won’t be considered. I know it....

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I sure hope this is true. A nominal supervisor appears to be trying to show me up in a few of our company’s Slack channels. (Oh yeah, I dislike Slack.) At least having it in there means it’s on t...

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A couple months ago I started taking a 101-level improv class. It’s been challenging and fun at the same time. At the end of every semester, you do a show to show off what you’ve learned. Mine...

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I’m going under the knife Friday. It’s the first time I’ve had surgery. Assuming this is successful, let’s hope it’s the last. What’s happening? I’m having my tonsils removed. Yes, tonsils. I’m a...

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Every time I open up one of those lengthy everyone-is-great work e-mails and see my name not mentioned, or buried pretty far down there after about 46 others, I remember that I have no future at ...

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When OD disappeared, I tried to download my diary and it didn’t seem to work. I figured it was all lost. When it returned, I made a vow: I’m cutting and pasting everything into my PB. And that’s ...

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I’ve seen the entries today and I felt like getting on my soapbox and shouting nonsense. A. I’m not taking sides, I find both sites have positive and negative points, but … B. I’ve never felt th...

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This could refer to this entry, but instead it refers to work. For those who don’t know, I work in journalism. I’m working on a time-sensitive story, something I’d like to get done by 6 a.m. And ...

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I have a job where my name usually isn’t attached to my work. But when I fuck up, everyone sees it. It’s in a very prominent place. Even if my name is not attached to it, I know it was me that ...

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Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever be “normal” and not get into these routine funks.

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I made an impromptu trip to the old haunts last weekend to visit friends. I’d been down that way in April, but after canceling a recent trip to South Carolina (more on that here) I had a flight v...

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I spent 20 years trying to run away from my high school experience. Damn, I was sick of those people. At least for a few years. But as the years wore on, I was hoping we’d all get together. We ha...

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I went on a first date with this lady – we’ll call her S – a day or two before New Year’s. We’re both wicked sarcastic, and immediately I felt a chemistry. We also were both amazingly defensive, ...

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I try to not get political, but . . . This is what it’s come to, demonizing an entire group of people. In this case, brown ones. It happened to the micks/paddys and the wops and many other immi...

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She has been appeared in a couple of dreams lately, even though I swear I’m trying to move on. The first was last week at my not-girlfriend’s place. In the middle of the night. It wasn’t a sexua...

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I had a feeling this would happen. Life calms down, and I stop writing. Sorry. I’m looking forward to vacation. In a few days, I head to D.C. to visit friends. I’ll stay with a college friend and...

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February is usually the worst month of winter. Perhaps the year. December and January around here tend to be tolerable: there’s snow, but some mild days, too. You’re not that far removed from th...

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I’d like to discover new writers on Prosebox. I thought there was a “random” button, but it seems to have disappeared recently. In the event anyone sees this on the homepage: can you steer me in ...

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Whoa! Once again a very long absence. I’ll get better about it one of these days. I know I only have a few readers on here, but those of you who know me (and followed me over from OD) know that I...

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There’s not much to mention today, but I want to get into a regular writing rhythm, so here’s another post. My friend is in town and we’re having fun. We drove about six hours to visit a mutual f...

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I made a vow to start writing in here more often, so I’m gonna write, dammit. There’s really nothing special going on at the moment. This is the part of my night where I start to feel a little do...

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