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Utility my ass

The Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy (which took over from the Department of Public Utilities) should be ashamed of itself. Verizon public telephone charges $0.70 for a ONE MINUTE local telephone call. Now I have never been anything but … Continue reading

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eleventh

This is dsc00011.jpg, the eleventh photo I took with my then-brandie-new camera, the Sony DSC-F717, in February of 2003. Yikes! Such a long time ago. That is still a camera as yet unreplaced. True, I have moved on to a … Continue reading

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sweet reason

“Stop the war now. As Baghdad will be encircled, this is the time to get the UN back in to inspect Baghdad and the rest of Iraq for biological and chemical weapons. Our troops should not have to be the … Continue reading

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upon the end

So now what?  You know, a bad movie can do some good things.  Especially, when one is as emotionally fragile as I, one may perceive profound movement of things ancient and unmoved, even in a bad movie.  Perhaps I am … Continue reading

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unsafe

I absolutely love chaos, which is nothing more, really, than the potential for disaster.  Opportunities for disaster fascinate me and draw me in.  I can’t resist sticking my fingers into fan blades.  I used to play with matches before I … Continue reading

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eat

Work called today.  Somebody was out, they wanted me to come in.  But I was so bad yesterday that I was feeling that familiar fondness for the rope (and I don’t mean the one with the life ring at the … Continue reading

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fifty again

Already time for bed, again.  Why does this always happen?  Another day is gone, and I’m just getting here. Anyway, I told my boss today to take her bonus and stick it.  She wanted to give fifty bucks each to … Continue reading

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nuts

What am I, fuckin’ nuts!?!  Well, yes.  I am.  This, dearies, is the ugly side of a DSL addiction.  There is no treatment.  If there were, I would not want it since I already know what the treatment is for … Continue reading

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did

I actually did a couple of the things that have been on my To Do list for about the last year.  Here’s the latest:.  I have a new doctor.  I haven’t had a PCP since Jan 2000, which may not … Continue reading

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loss It represents only

loss It represents only 1 ping every ten minutes, and in the space of ten minutes this DSL connection goes up and down more often than me on a good night.  In the time it takes me to write a … Continue reading

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It has made me too

It has made me too jittery to think straight.  This dropping-DSL, which has been down for days on end, coming up for 30 minutes or an hour a day, has made me link-light crazy, watching the router nervously for the … Continue reading

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Ok.  Enough of this.  My

Ok.  Enough of this.  My astrologer tells me I take myself much too seriously.  (Yeah, an astrologer.  What else would I call her, an angel?).  I was going to get all tangled up in some new javascript that I found, … Continue reading

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Simple. A new start, gracious

Simple. A new start, gracious though ungraceful – panicky even.  I am close to the end, the parts amputated are still nearby, sheddings of a weightful something – old trauma perhaps, but more likely sheddings of a present fear.  Just … Continue reading

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