Shoes and Pie

We Wish You A Retro Christmas, part II

Freelance hasn’t kept me as busy as I would have hoped this year. I don’t have the extra money to buy whatever ornaments and decorations strike my fancy, let alone extravagant gifts. Instead, this is an opportunity to rewind to the Christmases of my youth. To use the ornaments I’ve collected from past years of [...]

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We Wish You a Retro Christmas

One of the things that I do well is shop. I have a bit of free time these days, which I can spend searching online for pretty, useful, and/or elusive things (like a faux-jaguar hat to match my ’60s-vintage coat). As a public service, and to further make it more difficult for me to find [...]

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Lack of a Cohesive Plot

Forgive me, Readers, it’s been a week-ishy since my last post. The Department of Labor sent the letter with their Official Determination, which makes it Official: My contract work wasn’t as a contractor, but as an employer. Oooooooookay. However, the Determination of Benefits letter was based on very obviously (to me) incorrect earnings for when [...]

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I Thought I Knew You, What Did I Know?

You don’t look different, but you have changed
I’m lookin’ through you, you’re not the same
~Lennon/McCartney
Visitors to my blog may notice some visual differences today. Hopefully that’s all you notice. A spontaneous conversation with my friends Jeff and Erica, who Know About These Things, regarding the possibility of moving my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, coinciding [...]

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Twerps. Twoids?

Snippets of information that WOULD be tweets if I could squeeze them into 140 characters. But I talk too much.

I smashed a large, lumbering, pesky fly last night. Whacked it a few times to make sure it was good and dead. Didn’t rush to dispose of it because 1. euw and 2. it wasn’t going [...]

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