Wherein The Foment I Been

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Saturday May 29, 2010 · 10:33 PM PDT

2010/05/29 · 22:33

Not that anybody cares. This is a huge community after all.

On the unlikely chance that anybody has been wondering where I've been, well I'm back.

It's been divorce land, moving into a new place of my own, and getting my utilities hooked back up.

And graduating College along the way.

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Sunday April 04, 2010 · 12:39 PM PDT

2010/04/04 · 12:39

This reprise diary is inspired by WarrenS, whose diary I highly recommend. Please go show him some love.

What follows is an essay I submitted last year for a college essay contest. I also diaried it here as The Essay That Did Not Win.

I offer it again, because, well, I like it. I hope you do also.

Peace.

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Saturday April 03, 2010 · 4:32 PM PDT

2010/04/03 · 16:32

So, WYFP?

What? You haven't gotten over being suckered in two days ago?

WYFP? No sense of humor? Or do you just not like cats?

You think you got problems?

Best April Fools joke ever played on me, and it wasn't even April 1st: I went into my bathroom to sit on the pot, and when I finished my business I reached for the T.P.

It wouldn't roll off. It was like it had gotten all wet and got all stuck together or something. Naturally, there was no spare roll (I should have gotten a clue right there), so I pulled and clawed and swore and finally got enough of a wad to make an initial wipe.

I came out screaming, only to meet my wife and son who were in paroxysm of laughter, tears of glee streaming down their cheeks.

It was a gag TP roll, a novelty, all glued together. They got me good.

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Pie

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Chocolate Pie

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Lemon Meringue

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Pie in the face

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Vanilla ice cream

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Parfait

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Strawberries

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Strawberries and cream

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Strawberries and Fields Forever

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Donkeys

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Tea

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Coffee!! I Don't Like Tea. It gives me a headache.

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Spiders and Snakes

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Your friends and family

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3.14159

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Operation CHOI

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Thursday March 18, 2010 · 1:30 PM PDT

2010/03/18 · 13:30

So how's this for an idea?

Operation CHOI: Chained Honor, Obligation, and Integrity.

U.S. Army Lieutenant Dan Choi and U.S. Army Captain Jim Pietrangelo were recently arrested for chaining themselves to the White House fence in protest against DADT.

The Secret Service went nuts.

What if thousands of U.S. military service personnel, active duty and veterans, did the exact same thing -- chain themselves to the WH fence -- all at once, for the exact same reason?

Think we'd get the Administration's attention?

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Tuesday March 02, 2010 · 7:06 AM PST

2010/03/02 · 07:06

A very nice surprise came in the mail yesterday.

It was from my college.

It came in a large, flat, sturdy mailer.

Inside were my diplomas.

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Sunday February 21, 2010 · 3:14 AM PST

2010/02/21 · 03:14

when you cry yourself to sleep.

Old Mother Goose,

She had a bus,

And threw herself under it.

Said the Con to hisself

"It's just as well"

"I really couldn't afford her shit".

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Friday February 12, 2010 · 2:13 PM PST

2010/02/12 · 14:13

Some of you here know I have been battling depression lately.

I appreciate your support and kind thoughts.

One thing you did not know is this part.

I had to give my dog away, to a better home.

So I got these pictures of Scrapper today that I took about a month ago, and thought I would share them with you.

Scrapper, you ol' pup you, I love you and miss you.

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Tuesday February 09, 2010 · 10:26 AM PST

2010/02/09 · 10:26

A couple of recommended diaries here and here have prompted me to write this one.

Comes a time when you just have to walk away.

Comes a time when you just have to walk away from a bad job.

Comes a time when you just have to walk away from an abusive spouse or partner.

Comes a time when you just have to walk away from a failed investment.

Comes a time when you just have to walk away from a worn out automobile.

Comes a time when you just have to walk away from your country.

Say what?

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Tuesday February 02, 2010 · 4:22 PM PST

2010/02/02 · 16:22

What do you want me to do?

John F. Kennedy told me to not ask what my country could do for me, but rather to ask what could I do for my country.

Incidentally, I cried my little fourth-grade eyes out when he was gunned down.

I was there, in front of the television set in 1969, when we landed on the moon. As promised.

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 10:01 PM PST

2010/01/25 · 22:01

There is no more terrifying aspect to life at sea than a fire aboard.

We were taught in the Navy that the most hopeless approach to a fire was to run from it.

You fight it or you die. Yeah, you may die in the process of fighting the fire, but your shipmates may live on.

Or you may just knock the fire down and live on to champagne celebration.

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Saturday January 23, 2010 · 1:36 AM PST

2010/01/23 · 01:36

Buck's Lake Lodge

a local summer-wintertime year-round tourist attraction, fun to go to spot, grocery store, bar, dance hall and meet-up place is no more.

Wednesday morning, January 20, 2010, fire claimed its own in the depths of a winter night.

For me, its almost like losing a family member to a sudden unexpected death.

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 11:07 AM PST

2010/01/12 · 11:07

According to those who would advance the proposition that marriage is primarily about having children and raising children, my current marriage should have been disallowed.

I'm fifty-five, and back on September 25, 2004, I married one of the most wonderful women in the world. This is not just my personal view. In my small community my wife is well known. All who know her hold her in the highest esteem.

But we are childless. She had a hysterectomy decades ago. We, as a married couple, cannot produce children. Therefore, according to the leading argument that the defendants produced in the current trial regarding Prop 8, our marriage is purposeless.

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