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Many Moments More
Jul 314 min read
Okay, Red Sox
Wednesday 7/31/24 There's an implied heading to this entry of "I'd prefer to be wrong" but we're here on the last day of July and I'm...
Jul 304 min read
Red Sox thoughts on trade deadline day
Tuesday 7/30/24 Much-needed win for the Red Sox last night by a score of 14-7 over the Seattle Mariners. They got out to a 10-1 lead. A...
Jul 284 min read
Vaccines
Sunday 7/28/24 I'm getting this Tdap vaccine tomorrow. I'm overdue. I don't need the lockjaw. Is that what you get when you're pricked by...
Jul 285 min read
Arms, blown saves, Moby Grape, narrative, lemonade business, "term," "intention," AAV, standards, minimizing out
Sunday 7/28/24 My arms have become pretty big. It's just the push-ups. Or I should say, doing them correctly after not doing them...
Jul 275 min read
Drinking truths
Saturday 7/27/24 I estimate that I used to have 150 drinks per week. That's a real number, unfortunately. It could get as high as 200. I...
Jul 272 min read
Witching hour
Saturday 7/27/24 It's very early. Working. I finished "Pass" the other day. This morning I finished "Tidy Sums." It’s always two plus two...
Jul 267 min read
Why
Friday 7/26/24 I'm floored by the amount of talent some radio actors possessed in what they did. The range of their characters and...
Jul 252 min read
Performing sobriety
Thursday 7/25/24 This is what people do now by the way. The go online and perform sobriety. It becomes their shtick, their business...
Jul 254 min read
How are you today?
Thursday 7/25/24 You could argue, I guess, that people who write, "Prove me wrong" ("Aaron Judge is the MVP. Prove me wrong," "Chivalry...
Jul 242 min read
A little secret for you
Wednesday 7/24/24 The solution to one's problems is very unlikely to be taking to social media and enumerating them, especially as so...
Jul 242 min read
Lilah to the rescue
Wednesday 7/24/24 The other day when I was coming back from helping with that move I learned about something that happened when my nieces...
Jul 244 min read
Fantasy and reality
Wednesday 7/24/24 Yesterday I saw some people on a hockey history discussion forum partaking of a fun activity: Trying to determine the...
Jul 232 min read
Math
I wrote this story called "Tidy Sums." It's these two people having a discussion about how people only say "It's like how two and two...
Jul 238 min read
Let's talk about six "simple" lines of dialogue
Tuesday 7/23/24 I had talked about a new story called "Pass" in an earlier entry. As I mentioned, the story is six lines of dialogue and...
Jul 233 min read
Slugs on the sidewalk
Tuesday 7/23/24 People who say they're all about "witty banter" annoy me. First of all, they're never witty themselves. Secondly, they...
Jul 232 min read
Fitness backlog
Tuesday 7/23/24 This won't exactly be thrilling. Just logging some recent fitness doings. On Friday I did 100 push-ups, walked three...
Jul 222 min read
Commence to dancing
Monday 7/22/24 The Grateful Dead and the Capitol Theatre. What was it about that place? A friend and I were talking over the weekend and...
Jul 201 min read
Two Beatles paragraphs
Saturday 7/20/24 McCartney wrote songs that resound after the fact as part of a progression. We can hear what predated them in his own...
Jul 205 min read
Solid: The language we use
Saturday 7/20/24 The other day a friend texted me to say that someone who works for them was in a bad car crash and was barely hanging...
Jul 193 min read
When it's most gratifying to be a fan of a team
Friday 7/19/24 There are two ways, I'd say, that being a fan of a team is most gratifying, with one way being more gratifying than the...
Jul 194 min read
Jaylen Brown, USA men's basketball, and the concept of risk in our society
Friday 7/19/24 I understand why Jaylen Brown is pissed about being left off the men's USA basketball roster as it obviously had nothing...
Jul 191 min read
Upcoming entries in this journal
Friday 7/19/24 This is just a quick entry to say what's upcoming. There are going to be a few other entries on here about various...
Jul 181 min read
Story description to someone
Thursday 7/18/24 I wrote a story this morning called "Pass." I actually wrote it in my head in bed last night and typed it out this...
Jul 183 min read
The implication being that it's precious
Thursday 7/18/24 I just don't feel like having a cat or cats should be one of the defining qualities of your life. As in, "Here is one of...
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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