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Monthly Archives: April 2003

Gorky’s

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

I opened a CD case and found an extra CD doubled up with the CD that was meant to be there. It was a regular commercially manufactured music CD, but it had no title printed on the disc. I didn’t recognize the music. So with the help of CDDB I could identified [...]

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How Deep the Water Is

Monday, April 28, 2003

There are some days where your canoe is capsized by a wave coming up from the wake of a giant powerboat, figuratively speaking. You’re dunked underwater and you manage to get the boat turned back over. You retrieve the paddles and what suddenly seems like an excessive amount of cargo for a brief [...]

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Green

Friday, April 25, 2003

Another photo of the traffic circle from the last shot appeared here a few weeks ago, when it was still intact.
Bonus Photo for Photo Friday: Shadows

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Rich

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

In the course of cleaning my apartment I dug up:

$1.54 in coins taped to the back of a postcard
Fiona sent me the change that was left at the end of her 1997 U.S. trip. The words “emergency cheering up kit” are written on the back. If I remember correctly, Fiona advised me to [...]

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Dwindling Returns

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

This morning - yesterday morning - I ate the handful of jelly beans that I had left, even though I was suffering a slight jelly bean binge induced hangover.
As spring progresses there will be fewer and fewer opportunities to describe the leaves on a tree as being just painted on.
A burnt-out floodlight has left the [...]

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Photographer

Sunday, April 20, 2003

I notice the group at the table right outside the window - a girl with long tight curls chatting with two guys. I get back into my book for awhile. When I look up again, the guys are there and the girl is gone. But I see her immediately. She’s trudging [...]

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Different Things

Friday, April 18, 2003

Bonus Photo Friday shot - “Water”
There isn’t a consistent thread to this week’s photo gallery - just nine photos.

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Orange You Glad?

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Based on the forensic evidence I was able to determine that the WHACK! Thump. Sproinng! (thump.) (thump.) Clatter! that woke me up early this morning was caused by an orange falling from a shelf in the kitchen, hitting a spoon on the counter and launching it into the air, and [...]

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What Infinity Looks Like

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

My nephews are in their car seats in the back. Matthew asks Daniel a rather lofty sounding question. “Daniel, Do you know what infinity looks like?”
Daniel answers, “No.”
“Infinity is an eight squashed on its side.”
A minute later Daniel calls out to Rachel in the driver’s seat, “Mom?”
Rachel looks up at the rear view [...]

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Watchband

Monday, April 14, 2003

I checked the time as I was getting onto the bus, walking up the steps of one of the rear entrances. I tried to check the time - I made the usual arm flick to free the watch from my sleeve and I felt the weight of my watch suddenly disappear. I felt [...]

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