drat fink

fence din

death to poochie

travel day for me. made it to my destination but not without incident. somehow somebody fell under our train at the stop previous to the last. it was unclear when or how it happened or how serious it was. considering the general lack of alarm, it didnt seem life threatening. and instead of waiting like a good little poochie for an indeterminate amount of time (we were already a half hour behind schedule), i scuttled off in search of alternate transportation. however i misunderestimated the cost of a cab to my eventual location on top of which my cab driver got lost. if i could have strangled myself at that moment i might have but no such luck (for some).

anywho, ive made it to the farm (a farm if you count hay and taxes as cash crops). youll all be happy to know that the baseball glove is satisfactory. but for sure if i had bought a more expensive one id be playing in the pros right now.

lots of toys around here. im wireless on one of those mini sony vaios and theres some slick super slim panasonic digital camera just itching to be hotlinked. alas, ive proven too hideous at such close range to project but maybe in daylight ill find a worthy crevice to illuminate.

still, too much consternation. why do people make it so hard sometimes?

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bought me a new piece of leather. couldnt justify the big bucks and failed to conjure a momentary lapse of reason, so i settled on one that was more than adequate although not particularly comfortable. im a little worried that the finger holes arent large enough but im hoping theyll stretch out. wouldnt be such an issue except that my some of my fingernails are brittle and especially tender from the psoriasis. also, the old guy working the baseball area at paragon was an effective salesmen. i hope his judgement is as good as his pitch.

and as long as im in the sports zone (ouch), i should mention game two of the nba finals. how bout that accused rapist (talk about your momentary laspe of reason) kobe bryant? ok, done.

port in a swarm

it aint done by none longshot but if yall ever done wonder what all them letters mean this heres an expanded list. someday ill learn em to stand up straight so them is more legibitable too.

alexander who?

cant get the dime, how about a 10-spot for the dearly merely departed?

reel to reel

i didnt think it possible but the ceiling in my bathroom actually looked better with a hole than it does fixed. way to spackle, lupe. i guess exposed tape is all the rage these days.

pencils down

i guess this is a form of googlewhacking. i like to check with google to see if what ive just thought up has been used before, and thats a "before" in the very limited context of whats been indexed by google.

so usually i am being unoriginal as with todays construction -- does god grade on a curve? i guess i was trying to imagine how difficult the entrance exam was to heaven, and whether or not it was standardized? word is there may be some institutional biases built into the whole system that prevert the results.

times up

fell asleep during the second half of the nba finals opener. at least from what i saw, detroit looked like it might have more of a chance than many believed. of course when noone scores more than 5 points outside of your two stars than it can be a long night. detroit played with more energy and more of a concept. it seemed like larry brown had outcoached phil jackson. but when your shots go in, it has a way of making your decisions look better.

i was marginally pro-laker as i rooted for them against the hated celtics back in the 80s but thanks in part to ever-so-tepid neoliberal kevin drum and his la triumphalism, im leaning toward detroit.

but really, i prefer chris rock to kid rock, so detroit better rock harder or theyll lose me again. not that anyone (including myself) cares. im just killing a minute between 7:49 and 7:50. and now a few words from our sponsors.

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