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• A month full of suckage

  September 18, 2006

  And just who am I kidding? it's been far more than a month ... August, and so far most of September, have just been what seems to be the largest concentration of it ... I've been so lost in a world of suck that I haven't even written here in the past six weeksStarting with…

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• Fridays aren’t supposed to suck …

  August 3, 2006

  ... but then again, most Fridays don't involve what I went through today. I got my cat, Orion, in October of 1999, adopted from an SPCA when he was 9 weeks old ... today I had to put him down. I don't know what happened to him, although we suspect it may have been a…

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• Do ‘professionals’ actually take the time to read?

  July 19, 2006

  ... sometimes I seriously have to wonder.I recently posed the question to the members of FLUTE List as to whether or not any of them knew of any reputable hand specialists in British Columbia, since my doctor (whom I'd previously named Pawdoc) wants to send me a local surgeon for carpal tunnel su...

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• Stuff … and stuff

  July 15, 2006

  I guess I really should write something ... I think I hear my diary crying out in pain, dying of textual starvation. My week started out terribly ... what should have been a simple installation of graphic drivers resulted in something messing up in my computer's BIOS ... of course, it wouldn't ha...

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• Pops goes the prognosis

  June 6, 2006

  My ears are being treated to the sounds of the Boston Pops ... Waltzes, Gershwin, movie magic and pop favorites ... One can't help but smile at the thought of watching the great performances of this orchestra, the conducting of Arthur Fiedler, or John Williams ... or especially Keith Lockhart. It...

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• Life bastardizes Blondie …

  June 1, 2006

  "One way or another, I'm gonna find youI'm gonna screw ya screw ya screw ya screw ya" At least that's how things seem lately. Everytime I turn around, it's another altercation with life throwing crap in may path ... if I were a boxer, they'd stop booking the continual rematches of Shado...

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• 9-2, a dash of 5th and a crash for good measure

  May 19, 2006

  I recently read a novel written by Anne Rice, called Violin, in which the main character makes reference to the Second Movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: It's like walking music, the music of someone walking doggedly and almost vengefully up a mountain. It just goes on and on and on, as thou...

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• Oh, for the balls of Fate in a nutcracker …

  May 3, 2006

  And so it is that I am once again unemployed ... the rollercoaster of life has plummeted again, after leaving me on a seemingly endless perch of uncertainty. The single hinging factor in the equation of whether or not I would be moving to Parksville to accept the position of 2nd-In-Command from C...

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• I think I did something stupid …

  April 17, 2006

  You just know that anytime something starts out that way, it can't possibly be good ... especially when it's a 2:00 AM call to the boss Our slushee machine at the store gets a lot of use, even in winter, so naturally we want to keep it in optimal running shape. While disinfecting the dispensers&h...

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