mrzablowdowski

16:00 Work
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Eighteen months of restructure and sale is complete. The name on the building changed. I return to work after three weeks vacation. Survive yet another round of "technological change".
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The iron horse of data communications, the teletype printer, filled the dumpster on the way to the scrap heap. A few jobs went on the pile. The world evolved to desk top...
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Vanilla Coke in a can, a good book, the beach, all the ambition of last week. Communion of child, monkey, and mother earth. Ooze squeezed through a once opposable toe. And nurture the nature of a soul.

As the planets did conspire, none of these ambitions were achieved. Yet, I am left strangely satisfied. Less monkey. More sloth. A three toed sloth. A lack of...
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The ice cream parlor down the street has 208 flavors.

As a kid, I thought 31 flavours were alot. I had trouble picking between two. I was happy, if I got one.

Down the street they have a nice garlic pernod. I had the chocolate chocolate fudge brownie. What kind of ice cream do you like?

immoral is to amoral as withhold is to without
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Empathy in the tone as she spoke set a sypathetic vibration in the hollow resonance of my wooden soul. The dog pound. Once more. Me and Miss Smith. Three months. Same dog. Named Oliver.
Soon swallow the knot in my throat. And joke his is name probably Oliver Twist. A head like a mellon split,...
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Rums and Cokes. The nieghbour's lime.
Shoes off sushi. A comfortable company.
Hot days. I got to take time. And enjoy life.
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Last year the fire hall sent a truck to the block party for the kids. This year a unmarked police punched the lights and car raced down the block. Pursuit, a guy with a pony tail on a bicycle. Short exchange from...
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I dreamt of mom and dad. Now gone a dozen years or more. Oddly after all this time, never dreamt of. Mom was keeping a black bear and two cubs in the spare bedroom upstairs.

Arrived. At home. A count of dogs and cats lounging or scampering about the living room never complete. Shod hoof...
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My cat has been sleeping in the litter box. What's that about? I'm convinced, cats live in a world of stink.
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Sound of hammering. A real estate boom. Finding at last my nieghbourhood.

Work nights. Sleep in the day. Not today. An old roof, thin through to daylight, yeilds a luxury suite beneath. A house lifted and twisted and pour a heated floor, a...
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Not attention span nor interest in decline. It has come to my attention that we live busy lives.

In an effort to reduce your comment time. In the future choose the following.

1. You rock...
a) on.
b) totally!
c) my world...

2. You suck...
a) donkey balls!
b) slew water.
c) as usual.

3. You're weird...
a) like my brother.
b) like the guy...
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Kink the hose. It's time to jump through the sprinkler.
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Drinking and driving mishap. Wheelbarrow and the hen and chicks.

Why did they cross the road?
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The mushrooms did not return this year. And so did wonder if the fairies, at last, had frightened away. As often become carried away, prancing about with my pitch fork, in the garden.
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Lips aglow cherry...
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Giddy from the whipping gas in the aerosol can of dessert topping, a snack watching Muriel's Wedding.
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Firestarter. The Prodigy is cranked, bounce on bed in pyjama bottoms, untill crack head into drywall.
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"What?" The cat keeps asking for something. "What?"
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Elections Canada Voter Information Card, for the guy that lived at this house tweleve years ago, came last week. In spite...
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