Month: April 2023
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Radically and Phenomenally Better
I am having an argument as I sometimes do with a friend who mourns the loss of what he considers a more civilized world. He thinks that 800 years ago was a better, more moral, more sensible place. But I am convinced he is completely wrong. I suffer from food insecurity but my children have…
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The Crack Before Dawn
It’s too early in the morning for me to be awake once again. It’s that Saturday morning energy. My work week starts tomorrow so I should have time to recalibrate today. Hopefully I’ll be appropriately awake for that. I have an Elders Quorum Presidency zoom meeting in 13 hours. I’ll have to stay alert until…
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Arizona Rx Energy
It’s my day off from Walgreens, so I really don’t need a lot of caffeine and sugar. But who am I kidding, I need to cut back on those every day. I’m having a second Rx Energy anyway this morning. Each one is 114% of my US Recommended Daily Allowance for sugar. That’ll put me…
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Owning Land
One of the reasons that so many of us play video games is that we can do things we can only dream about in real life. The joke on the internet is that they are the only place where “You awake feeling well rested.” I also get fairly rich in the games that I play.…
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Up And At ‘Em
(A Modern Horror Story) A monster rises in the skyIt is a giant flaming eyeAll things hidden are revealedEvery sleepy dirty fieldIt demands that we must riseFrom our beds with bleary eyesStretching from our comfy coilFrom our banished dreams to toil The sun is upThere’s work to doBright and blightWe can’t eschew Some say they…
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Weird
I like to think I’m weird. I’ve certainly exposed myself to a broader scope of ideas than is typical in our culture. But even my weirdness seems commercial most of the time. For instance I grew up with “Weird” Al Yankovic. It has been described and I identify with the description as “music to keep…
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A Party
I had a dream that I went to a party with the wife and kids. It was a small house and there were a lot of people. There was lots of stuff to do. But the dream hung on a scene where I looked out over a pool with orca and the Loch Ness Monster.…
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“Perfect”
Once and a while at work a customer says “perfect.” This happens especially when we get the right prescription to the right customer in a timely manner. It is nice to hear. Much nicer than the customers who no matter what you do for them nothing at all is right. Mind you I believe in…
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Decompressing
Today has been a quiet day. I’ve played some video games. I’ve contemplated what Easter means to me now almost thirty years after my conversion the the LDS Church. My wife brought me a latte from Dunkin Donuts and our son made me a hamburger. Yesterday was stressful. A road trip to see my granddaughter…
Latter Day Sinner 