In the United States today, most families performed a ritual sacrifice of a turkey, which is then eaten.I made a sausage stuffing, not in the bird, cooked on a stove. And gravy. My sister made mashed potatoes, a green bean casserole, and supervised the oven as it cooked the turkey. We had apple pie and vanilla ice cream.
As ritual sacrifices go, it is not...
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It was easy. I got in the cab, and I told it to take me a few blocks to the metro stop. There, I put on a hoody type of thing Aisha has not seen me in in at least two years. I got on the train, and walked to the hotel. Embassy Row, not a place we would see anybody we know.
I checked...
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Megan asked me to change the date of my flight home from Tuesday to tomorrow.
She will do the same thing with her train trip home to Boston.
We both kept those dates for the tickets. Tomorrow, while we will pretend to leave, we will be checking into a hotel. In addition,while we both get back on Saturday we have said we will not get...
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My death, that is, which was fairly close the day before I was to leave for Reno, and still is. I have a blood clot in my lung, and my parents (I was in Dallas visiting) barely got me to the hospital on time. I made it through this time, obviously, but the next time, probably not. I have been given a ballpark figure of...
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I do not have enough time to spend enough time on this site.
I want the Redskins to win, as they are my team. At the same time, I want them to lose, because they need a new coach. It is a bad situation there right now.
I need to talk to Claire, we both know that. Claire has even told me. This is a...
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I wanted to go to this game, but Aisha forbade it. Possibly a good idea; I may have had a heart attack.
To my dear friends at UVA, do what I am doing. Drinking. Do not get hammered. I am drinking a fairly weak mixture of one bottle of Coney Island Hard Root Beer, and one can of Barq's. While a good root beer experience,...
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Today is Patriot's Day. We had the day off.
Have you forgotten?
As noted below. I expected a beating last night. It did not happen. Aisha calmed through the day, especially after she took $50.00 from my wallet. I reminded her we had not been looking at Member Review on our vacation, so, for the next few hours, we perused the many wonderful sets we had missed. Eventually, Aisha became totally calm.
Not that she did not...
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End of our second mini vacation. Older crowd, as expected, still plenty of young women with side boob and thong bathing suits. Aisha and I both have wandering eyes, and the scenery was often rather nice.
Again, we stopped at Red Hot and Blue. It had been open for about a half hour, so yes, we arrived early. We were informed that something was wrong...
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Then we have to go home. Actually, it is pretty dead right now. Every morning, we are treated to a beautiful sunrise, and, every evening, an equally beautiful sunset. It is romantic. Even Aisha, generally immune from any hint of romanticism, is not unaffected.
Last night, we went to a sports bar, and convinced a waitress to tune one single little TV to the Dallas...
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