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I was reading my Hobbes, when I noticed what I was using for a bookmark. It wasn't one of those pretty subscription cards I sometimes use, but a 20lb note from the Bank of England! Hmmph! That and $.25 won't even get me a cup of coffee over here! A neat bookmark, though.

As a young lad, just before I helped Alcuin invent the Carolingian minuscules, I was an indifferent speller. My second grade teacher despaired! "I don't know if I should pass Charles. All he does is daydream in class. If he'd get his head out of his..., he might aspire to a career shoveling s__t--with a teaspoon!" I made up the last sentence of her remarks,...
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The Franks ensrined, within a national epic, the ambush at the pass of Roncesvalles of one of their great Carolingian heroes, Roland, so it must be human nature to somehow glorify our defeats to make them a little more palatable. I've done it twice, once long ago, and now, in these past few weeks. Tragic love affairs! Oh, well! To those who have witnessed my...
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Thus my brain slowly imploded! But instead of a, "POP!" there was just a, "mip!"

Another holiday down! Survived another bout of insanity!

Happy Valentine's Day!

St. Valentine's Day is approaching! I think it's time for me to go crazy again! Or am I already crazy?

I'm glad Pittsburgh won the Superbowl, but it was still a disappointing game. It lacked razzle-dazzle. The high point of the whole show was the Rolling Stones. Awesome still!

The groundhog saw his shadow. After several weeks of almost balmy weather, we have snow on the ground again. A week ago the sportscasters were grousing about the possibility that there wouldn't be any snow in Detroit for the Super Bowl. Be careful what you wish for....

The only thing I don't like about the snow is that it makes it tough to walk the...
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I've been taking it a little bit too easy! All this time, lots to do, and I ain't doin' it! Done some thinking, though.

About nigh on to fifteen years ago, just before the New Year, my sister moved into the house I was renting with her husband and son. She and her hubby were on the outs, and within two years they got a...
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