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Bringing Sicily to the World

Sadly I’m back to having breathing problems which leads to me having sleeping problems. I often can’t breathe through my nose which leads to sleep apnea. I wake up unrested. When it is at its worst I will weak up in the night and feel like I’m being smothered. It always takes me a second […]

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Get Out of Jail Free

So sorry that I teased explaining why I’m not going to jail on Thursday and then didn’t write on Friday. I’m back to having sleep issues and didn’t have time to write yesterday What makes it worse is that I wrote a short depressing entry on Thursday and now I have tons to write about. […]

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Great Great-Uncle

I’m a great uncle! My nephew and his wife had a baby. Of course I’ve been great uncle to my nephew since he was born but that is not the same thing as being a great uncle to my great niece. As she lives on the opposite side of the country it is going to […]

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Weird Facts 1

I didn’t do anything interesting yesterday and the political things on my mind are too difficult to write about. It doesn’t do any good to tell people, “You’re being stupid! Cut it out!” I’m not feeling exposing my feelings this morning. So I’m going to do something I’ve had in the back of my mind […]

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Yak Yak Yak

I am writing this under subpar, and subzero conditions. There’s no heat. I’m wearing more layers than an onion. Perhaps this will put me in the right mind frame as last night I went to a Nepalese restaurant to hear Nepalese music. As the feels-like temperature was below 0°F I dressed appropriately; that included the […]

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The Conscience of the King

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Why do we have holidays? It isn’t just so we can have three-day-weekend getaways, important as that is. We have holidays to remind us of things we need to never forget, the struggle for Independence, those that died in war, the things we are thankful for, the struggles of […]

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You Probably Haven’t Heard Volume 3

I’m forcing myself to do a homework assignment today, add ten more acts to my You Probably Haven’t Heard List. I love to write about music and I love to make lists, but somehow it takes an effort to do this. I was happy to discover that I made things somewhat easier for myself by […]

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Does Anybody See What I See?

My life was boring yesterday. I went to my PO box and found junk mail. I went to Aldi. I should do that combination more often as I can take one train from PO box to the store. The most exciting thing yesterday was dinner. I tried something new, a bacon-wrapped pork loin medallion. It […]

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Mea Culpa

I stayed in yesterday which means I have to fall back on my ideas bin. There is only one thing in the phone version and it’s difficult to write, it’s a Mea Culpa. I’ll bite the bullet and write about being wrong. But first of course, the minutiae of my life.

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The Tale of Dan and the Idiot Story

I slept away the morning and now I’m rushed for time. I’m going to see Dar tonight at her annual Boxing Day show, which is not on Boxing Day; by tradition I’m the first one on the line. I woke up at a normal hour, 9:30, but almost immediately fell asleep in my chair for […]