Power bars and trendy names

This weekend I did two volunteer shifts under the Big Top – Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Not ideal, but I did the scheduling and that’s how things worked out for my life this month. 
There are a couple of new art exhibits at DEN: “Colorado: See the New West Like a Local” which is outside the security [...]

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Clean

Thursday I was Miz Grumpy so it’s just as well I didn’t blog then.  I was going through the major inconvenience known as “colonoscopy prep.”  The no-solid-food-all-day followed by the overnight at-home inner cleansing (the most polite phrase I can think of) before my 8:30 a.m. Friday colonoscopy.  Now I really understand the metaphor of [...]

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Friends

I know some nice people.  Including the ones who called me Thursday to offer me their tickets to last night’s performance of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.  And the friend who accepted my last-minute invitation to go with me.
Dinner beforehand was good.  It was a lovely spring evening to be out and about.  Downtown was bustling [...]

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Maybe he’s hoping to get a date

Oh, how refreshing.  Spring has finally come to Denver, flowers are daring to bloom and trees to leaf out.  And the looney tunes are coming outdoors, pale and shriveled from hunkering in their basements all winter, and squinting in the sunshine.
Exhibit A:  the guy who says he *seriously* wants the Denver City Council to create [...]

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Different

Have you seen those commercials for Comcast phone service?  The ones where some doofus is saying “But now I’m calling you on my new Comcast digital phone!” But of course that makes no difference to the situation at hand – which results from the caller being a hopeless screw-up and isn’t curable by a change [...]

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Scurried

Yesterday Jasper and I went to Washington Park for the Furry Scurry.  So did 10,000 other humans and 5,000 other dogs.
It was a hoot.  I got there early enough and hung around our corporate team area but none of them ever showed up there and I didn’t see any of them in the crowd elsewhere. [...]

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And we wanna be Really Really Dumb

In a sane society he would be showered with the big money now paid to US Major League Baseball players, drug-addicted rock stars, and CEOs of huge and soon-to-be-bankrupt corporations.  He might be dogged by paparazzi when going to a movie.  His statements would be lead items on teevee newscasts.
Thomas L. Friedman is, I hope, [...]

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A certain four-letter Anglo-Saxon word to you, Windows Vista

Here it is. A picture of the final straw on this here camel’s back. The ultimate frustration for someone who spent years as a mere network user at work, with limited ability to customize her own PC environment. Who after paying her OWN DAMN MONEY for a PC to use at home, is confronted with [...]

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