Month: June 2023
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Positive Syncretism
When I was growing up I played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. I would entertain myself with mini adventures almost every day. There was one source book that fascinated me called Deities and Demigods. It had a list of various gods from many of the world’s more famous pantheons. Each god had a description…
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Banded Collar Shirts
I really splurged today. I still had money from my last paycheck and the new one is coming soon. I looked online for banded collar shirts. I found a beautiful but small and expensive collection. I knew that shipping would be the same whether I bought one or two so I bought three. I really…
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I Hate Paperwork
In order for me to bill for the boys I need to legally prove who I am, where I live, and where the money should be deposited. I think I have sufficient paperwork for all three of those things. Physical copies. Actual documents. Well screen shots and print outs of actual documents. Dealing with the…
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The Dodge Street Standard
When I was in my twenties I lived in an apartment on Dodge Street. It was in a single dwelling house that had been cut into three pieces. I was desperately poor by American standards but I had everything I actually needed. I sometimes refer to it as “living on the edge of society in…
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Wrapped Carnations
My wife knows I love carnations. She bought me this bouquet last week. She warned me that if I didn’t take them out of the wrapping and put them into water that they wouldn’t last long. I left them in the wrapping and hung the whole arrangement on the wall of the den. She was…
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Early Sunday
It’s too early to be awake and I’ve already been up for two hours. I’m still planning on going to church today, but it seems like such a long way off at this point. The house is quiet and my thoughts are spinning. They aren’t wildly out of control at the moment. They’re just at…
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Saturday Sugar
Saturdays were lazy days when I was a kid. There were cartoons on the television and lots of sugar. I almost never watch TV anymore. I kind of grew out of it and it’s very expensive for the crap they put on cable nowadays. But I woke up at a decent time today and I…
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Loose Bolts
Most of the chairs in our house are a composite of multiple building materials. Fabric, and wood, and paper, and metal. But they are almost all bolted together with bolts about half as wide as my pinky finger. Those bolts get loose pretty quickly and as that creates wear and tear the speed they loosen…
Latter Day Sinner 