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From the photoblog department:
I try to go to the cottage for at least a day, if not the whole weekend, on Thanksgiving. I figure if I have anything to be thankful for, it’s this special place where I can go to enjoy a life as removed from the city as I can get it.
This […]

From the departments-are-like-points-on-whose-line department:
This was such a silly conversation that I had with Wartbag Smith (not his real name) that I had to share it with AZROLB. Names are changed to protect the innocent:

(20:20:38) NorMMonkeY: I had a cool idea today at lunch
(20:20:43) WartBag: do tell..
(20:20:56) NorMMonkeY: I went to Wendy’s and I brought […]

Holy crap! Three posts in one day! I guess this means I won’t post again for what… three months?
From the hella-heli-fun department:
A few weeks ago, I gave a cow orker a ride to the local hobby shop where he bought himself a remote-controlled helicopter. The crucial, defining moment was when he brought […]

From the inane-ramblings department:
Lunch has become my favourite meal of the day.
I’ve always enjoyed reading and eating at the same time. Ever since I was a kid who got yelled at a lot for reading at the table.
There’s something complementary about the two activities. Maybe eating by itself has […]

From the social-studies department:
Have you ever noticed what happens after you go see a movie at the theatre with a group of friends? I’m talking about the post-movie discussion. For it oft seems, at least with the people I accompany, that the conversation’s usually critical.
“Everyone’s a critic” goes the old expression. I […]

From the silly-childrens-stories department:
THE DUMPTYS
Humpty Dumpty was a blacksmith, working in the castle smithy for the King. The smithy, if one went looking for it, would be found between the soldiers’ barracks and the stables along the castle’s inner wall. Between the outer and inner walls lay the homes of many peasants and […]

From the musings department:
The Shell of Politeness
Politeness: it’s the common ground that allows people with different ideas and personalities to get along with each other. It is a filter that lets through only the safe, politically correct and non-offensive. It’s what keeps us from saying “You hare-brained dolt” to that guy on the […]

From the camping-hiking department:
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE READER: Before you start, know that for a short story, this will be pretty long. Prepare thine eyes and mind, for I allowed mine to wander to a Storyteller’s Place as I put thoughts to words.
Oh, yeah - it comes with pictures, too! Anyways, read on, and […]

From the three of three department:
SOCIAL-LAND
P and M have bought a new house. We had a party, with pizza and beer, for all the people who would have worked hard at moving boxes and crap had P&M not paid somebody to do all the work. Pizza and beer taste better when you didn’t […]

From the two-of-three department:
My sister has managed to make a house-buying decision approximately five years earlier than anybody expected (for those of you not playing along at home, my sister never does anything quickly, or on time. This trait comes into play later in this story. Now you have something to look for […]