This is one of the common blights on our street:

As far as wild packs of dogs go, four chihuahuas is not as scary as, say, the pit bulls that used to get loose on a regular basis from another house on the block. Nonetheless, these little yappers are not shy about running up and growling [...]

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Thank goodness I didn’t leave it until the very last minute to get my beaver tail out of the closet. I dug it out to discover that you could barely see the black fake fur.
It was covered in real fur.
Damn cats. If I wanted a cat tail, I would have made one of them into [...]

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We arrived at the Atlantis for our off-season beach vacation late yesterday afternoon. One of the risks of beaching it off-season is that your view might look like this:
Most of the time, that large tube snaking off to the left is pouring out a dark sandy slurry…I guess either the beach didn’t have enough sand, [...]

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There’s no light brown sugar. How can there not be any light brown sugar in the house? Dark brown sugar, white sugar, confectioner’s sugar, honey, molasses, simple syrup. Feh.

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Like I give a shit.

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Worked labor day, worked all week, worked saturday, worked sunday. And the two BIG projects that were supposed to hit in August should start any day now. Probably just in time for me to leave town for my wedding.
I went to a small business seminar once in which the speaker said “If you don’t wake [...]

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After errands to the DMV and the social security office earlier this month, it was a pleasure to deal with a different government bureaucracy today.
We got the marriage license today.
They have bibles right there on the counter just waiting for people to show up and have to swear something, but they don’t require you to [...]

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Had dinner last night with Pete, a friend I’ve known since the first grade. I can recall when I was amazed that I’d had a friendship that lasted 10 years. 44 years? Jeez. That should be illegal or something.
As much as I enjoy meeting new people, there’s something comforting about having a shared history–and knowing [...]

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I happened to share the sidewalk with a couple of business travelers this evening, who were staying in the downtown Marriott and strolling to Brightleaf Square for dinner. They asked me a number of questions, to which I replied:
-Yes, there’s a lot of construction going on, as old tobacco warehouses are converted to new purposes. [...]

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The LAST time I went to drink with the Durham bloggers’ cabal, I was a mere wannabe. Now I can hoist my brew with the best of them…or at least with those that show up.
See ya shortly, cronies.

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