On A Limb with Claudia

I had a conversation recently about poor choices.  Here’s my list of poor choices:

Not wearing underwear when you know your private parts are showing and will be photographed.
Drinking more than 1 drink/hour and driving a vehicle.
Drinking to black out and waking up not knowing what happened.
“Forgetting” to pay your parking tickets when you know they [...]

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When I was in high school, I knew this boy named Dave Carpenter.  He introduced me to the concept of “fair game”.  It’s stuck with me as an odd cornerstone of personal philosophy.  I was surprised recently that other people had never heard of it.  I thought I would share it here.
Fair game: If you [...]

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I had dinner, and a few drinks, with a rocket scientist last night. We got to talking about Mars. I’ve never understood Mars or any fascination with Mars. Even though this rocket scientist started his career designing space craft to Mars, and I’ve known him for more than twenty years, we’ve never [...]

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With a kiss on my cheek, D. left for the long weekend. He went to an obscure relative’s birthday celebration in Clovis, New Mexico. He returned with these statistics about his road trip. They are pretty funny.
Amount of time gone: [...]

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I grew up in this tiny town about forty minutes from Los Angeles.  I was a restless kid.  I was always ready to go.  Hollywood? Great.  Downtown?  Sure.  The beach? Absolutely.
I met this guy at some point.  I’m not really sure when or where.  It wasn’t that kind of friendship.  I like him.  [...]

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I really liked this picture, so I thought I would share.

Elliot Erwitt at Magnun Photos
Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Saturday started as a normal day. I got up. I worked on my fiction re-write. I had some lunch. Then D. returned from the park with the dog and everything turned strange.
“Wanna go shoot some guns?” He asks.
This was my chance to say, “No, dear. I’d like to have a normal [...]

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Now you know things have gone too far.
(P.S. This photo come from Stevo’s MySpace page.)

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I haven’t been able to check the bees this year. In fact, it hasn’t been warmer than fifty degrees since sometime in the middle of October. I usually take a peak every month or so and see how they are doing. Not so this year.
Today it was 55 degrees in the apiary. [...]

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I know I promised not to complain about the cold anymore.  I’m even sick of hearing me whine.
I just wanted to share this moment with you.
Sometimes, our dog Rose needs to go to pee in the middle of the night.  Well, the truth is: at 3:00 am every morning, Rose needs to go outside.  I [...]

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