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Waking to Chaos

Posted on November 21, 2024November 24, 2024 by Paul Woodford

Our dogs wake up at 5 a.m. and consequently so do we.

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Posted in Bicycling, Cooking, Critters, Culture Wars, Current Events, Local Color, Personal, Politics, WordsTagged BathroomBills, FriendsInLowPlaces, LivingWithDogs, QueerIsAsQueerDoes, TinnitusLeave a Comment on Waking to Chaos

Horsefeathers

Posted on July 17, 2024July 17, 2024 by Paul Woodford

How childish do you have to be to insist on setting off fireworks ten days after the 4th of July just because you weren’t here for the main event?

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Posted in Critters, Local Color, Personal, Social Media, Words, Yelling at CloudsTagged BraveSirDonna, GetItRightYouMoron, IndulgeYourInnerChild, OhSayCanYouSeeLeave a Comment on Horsefeathers

Saturday Is a Sharing Day

Posted on December 23, 2023December 23, 2023 by Paul Woodford

I guess I share too much, because my son Gregory keeps cautioning me not to mention this or that until he gives me the go-ahead.

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A Little of Stuff

Posted on November 16, 2023November 16, 2023 by Paul Woodford

We bought prepared Thanksgiving dinners the last two times, and guess what? Between reheating and prep, they’re almost as much work as a DIY feast. Our only takeout this year will be the traditional Costco pumpkin pie.

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Posted in Big Seiko, Cooking, Critters, Local Color, Personal, WordsTagged BigSeikoLittleDick, HomeImprovement, ThanksForNothingLeave a Comment on A Little of Stuff

22 YEARS LATER

Posted on September 11, 2023May 29, 2025 by Paul Woodford

Twenty-two years on, one scar’s still tender to the touch: the failure of our intelligence agencies and leadership to prevent an attack anyone could have seen coming (and many did, including me).

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Posted in Consumerism, History, Personal, Social Media, Terrorism, War, WordsTagged BigSeikoLittleDick, BojinkaPlot, BTVS, Metaplasmus, NineEleven, TimeHealsMostly2 Comments on 22 YEARS LATER

Sunday Bag o’ Dyslexic Orange Wreckage

Posted on August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 by Paul Woodford

My dyslexia is not the normal kind.

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Posted in Flying, History, Military, Personal, The Internets, WordsTagged AlaskaFlyingMemories, BushPilots, HistorialDyslexia, InternationalOrange, LiveInMiddleAgedDaughterUpdate3 Comments on Sunday Bag o’ Dyslexic Orange Wreckage

The Singular They … Again

Posted on August 15, 2023April 4, 2025 by Paul Woodford

I think in the future we’ll look back on this era of pronoun experimentation with embarrassment.

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Posted in Personal, WordsTagged #EnglishAsSheIsSpoke, #Pronouns4 Comments on The Singular They … Again

SA In the Shiggy

Posted on April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 by Paul Woodford

This morning I looked up shiggy in the Urban Dictionary. Turns out I was pretty close.

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Posted in Consumerism, Critters, Flying, Hash House Harriers, Local Color, Personal, Photoblogging, Products, Social Media, WordsTagged #BigSeikoLittleDick, MyLinguisticMission, SituationalAwareness, StrappingItOn1 Comment on SA In the Shiggy

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