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• Got it bad

  April 9, 2025

  This Tuesday was a Monday. Not a bad day, not by a long shot. But not a great day either, in terms of smoothness. In terms of how I like my days to go. In terms of how they usually go. The day was irritating. I stress out at work. Blow my deadline. Get stuff done…

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• Sparq?

  April 8, 2025

  I asked you out because I like you, yes. And I thought, if you said yes, it would be fun. It's always fun to spend time with you. Even if it leaves me shaking my head. Maybe especially when I leave confused. And I thought your kids would enjoy it, too. That's all I wanted.…

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• Life in the 80s as a teen

  October 3, 2024

  It's early October. Evening. Well, night. It's 10:30ish. A nice day in the ending. Slightly unseasonably warm day, pleasantly cool night. Jackets not required, but recommended for your enjoyment. Right now, I'm sitting at my desk at the newspaper. I pulled up Spotify, and was feeling like a littl...

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• The end of the world is beautiful

  May 11, 2024

  I am parked on potato hill, north of town with the lights of Stockton, 15 miles further to the north. The lights of Stockton itself is a joke because there may be all of 10 street lights that are visible from here. The clouds are backlit my feet blow. How to describe it? it looks…

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• Take five; marker.

  June 18, 2022

  It’s two in the morning, and I step out of my office onto Main Street Small Town USA. I take a few steps, and take a deep breath. The air feels like being back in college in Arizona. It was 100° this afternoon, or hot enough that a few degrees either way doesn’t matter. It…

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• So it happens.

  February 25, 2022

  I arbitrarily decided to stop working at 4pm so I would have time to run to my post office box, then to the banks before they closed, and then to Dairy Queen – which was a mistake, because it was still too much volume of food, too little nutrition of food, and except for the…

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• Unexpected

  February 6, 2022

  Kimball couldn’t flip a switch if his life depended on it. Not that it could anymore, not could anyone’s. I had been hoping for a woman. A younger woman within good fashion; a woman whose pragmatism would overcome any deficit in my looks or age, in exchange for my skill set and even temperament. ...

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• Texture of context

  January 29, 2022

  I was just leaving and stumbled upon an entry by an old-timer, from the original OD. She commented on how customizable the old interface was. It was really neat. Choice of colors, wallpaper, backgrounds, typefaces size and weights: the layout of a diarist's pages told you much about the diarist w...

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• The wee early years

  January 29, 2022

  I was born in the year 1968, and that's all I'll say about that. Within about two years, I came to live with my family at Topeka, in a modest but well-appointed home on the southeast edge of town. The end of the 60s was a golden age of gaudi flocked paisly drapes in green…

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