2002

WARNING: What follows is a bona fide rant. Read it or not…at your own risk.To this point I have limited my commentary on Dubya’s Folly to a random paragraph scattered here and there, or notes left in other diaries. I do believe, however, that anyone who has read my diary with any sort of regulari...

We’re coming up to the end of yet another year. (A master of the obvious, aren’t I?) One thing I do try to do (with varying degrees of success, I admit) is to review a bit. In the review I try to identify garbage that I need to get rid of. It’s a new year,…

Young Stud went home, the Christmas frenzy is over, I’m still unemployed and still smarting over my ‘friend’s’ betrayal. I have a bookcase that needs painting and a quitclaim deed to get filed. So….of COURSE I don’t want to anything and I am BORED. My brain doesn’t seem to be functioning in any c...

Here it is, the evening of Christmas day already. Over the past few days I’ve wrapped, unwrapped, cooked, eaten and napped. I’ve also swooned, schlepped and sniffled. And now….I’m just plum tuckered out! So, how’s by you? Did you have a wondermous Christmas full of the 3 Fs? (friends, family and ...

It's two days until Christmas, but only two hours until I get my present. Young Stud's plane will be landing right about then and I'll be SO happy to see him!I've been so excited that I'm actually delusional. I've spent HOURS doing my Christmas baking. Never mind that it's never actually been a f...

I am still alive and kicking. Mostly kicking. Currently I am hopefully winding up a 3+ month long confrontation with my DSL provider. For some reason I have had to do a LOT of explaining to them about the fact that a DSL service is no good to me if it doesn't actually work. I…

Friday was my last day of slavery. As I was finishing up a couple of final tasks and straightening up stuff to make sure it could be found after my absence, I came across a couple of things that the person formerly known as my friend had done that further drove home the point that…

My sense of humor seems to have flown the coop today, but it's amazingly resilient - so expect to see it, in some warped form or another - popping in here somewhere.Yesterday was a day of loss. Thankfully it was not a day of loss of life, limb or health. What I lost yesterday was…

Wednesday:Sis: What time is lunch tomorrow?SW: 2 p.m.Sis: Well then when will you put the turkey in? How big is it?SW: 18 pounds-the instructions on the turkey say about 5 hours.Sis: No - it will take 4 at the most.SW: You sure? In that case I can sleep in until 8, if you're sure.Sis: Yup.…

In case anyone is blissfully unaware of this fact - Turkey day will be here SOON! My personal preference is to have a 10 month year - ending after October (And, coincidentally, my birthday, hehe). Let's just wipe November and December off the calendar. Those are often two suck-o months for me so ...