vodka martini-fueled thoughts on Bond… James Bond
I have loved James Bond movies all my life. I love a good caper flick, but 007 movies were guaranteed to have several other elements as well: great music; sexy ladies who swoon into “Oh, JAMES!”‘s...
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Two weeks ago, a friend, (whom I shall refer to as Annie Oakley for the impressive frontierswoman skills she has developed since moving to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project) asked me if...
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Just got back from PorcFest XI (tangent: around time of last Super Bowl, commented on FaceCrack about how it seems odd to me that Super Bowls are numbered with Roman numerals, since I suspect much of...
View ArticleMiss Jones Gives Her Diary Some Much Needed Attention
Weight – still down >10 lbs from a year ago. In fact, haven’t weighed this little since legendary two-week Answer-to-the-Ultimate-Question tour of London, spent retracing the steps of protagonist of...
View ArticleInternal Monologue Whilst Shoveling Snow During the Blizzard of 2015
Scene: 12:45pm, Feb. 4, 2015 – driving snow; car is completely covered in snow, despite being parked in carport. Snowplow guy has already made initial run, resulting in predictable wall o’ snow between...
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A couple of weeks ago, I felt a sudden and uncharacteristic urge to clean off my desk. I think I read an essay that said something about how all sorts of things can be distracting and lower your...
View ArticleThe Tree of Wrongness
I’ve developed an irrational hatred for a tree. I can see it through my kitchen window, and there’s just something… wrong… about it. It’s also got tall enough that it could take out my power lines,...
View ArticleHow I lost 13 pounds in 8 weeks
TRIGGER WARNING: this is going to be a long, over-sharey post about my recent diet and weight loss shenanigans. If that triggers you, please move along now. tl;dr – I entered an 8-week diet bootcamp...
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