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30 Days Of Titles: Day One

30 days of titles of stories from Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep ! Day one:

The Belated Introduction of Encumbrance Tables in the Original Chutes and Ladders Board Game Crushed Many Players When They Reached Level Four

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Will I Still Remember How To Blog After This?

Thirty days of titles from Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep starts tomorrow. (Yeah, I know that’s going to be August 31, but my blog is a day off actual and I decided to go that September instead of the real September). That means I’m going to schedule all thirty at once. That also means I’m not going to write a new blog post for thirty days. Will I remember how to blog after this? It’s conceivable that after a break that long I’ll simply forget to come back to it entirely. We’ll have to see.

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I’m going to have so much spam in my filter waiting to be trashed after this.

Living Life On The Edge

I’ve been trying to eat less processed foods recently. As part of that, I’ll make snacks over the weekend and portion them out for the weekdays. These are usually a 6 ounce chicken breast, a small potato, and a handful of Brussels sprouts/carrots/radishes/or corn on the cob. This typically works well, except when I looked in the fridge Sunday night recently on my way to bed and realized I hadn’t made it yet.

You see, I don’t typically eat until I get home from work around 6pm. That meant cooking the snacks after I got home Monday would mean I was first eating REALLY late. Also, we were going to be going out of town Friday night, so I didn’t have room to just have a cheat day Monday and shift one of the snack packages off a day.

I managed to get it all cooked right when I got home that Monday and eat one fresh, but it was close. I was eyeing a bag of kettle chips the whole time.

I really live life on the edge at this time in my life.

RTD Dropped My Bus Again

Fun. RTD dropped my bus again. No notice, even their frequently touted app said it was coming. It wasn’t, just dropped because they didn’t have enough drivers. No choice but to wait for the next bus while already out there. So much fun. They really make it easy to be able to use them to get to a iob where one might, I don’t know…need to rely on reliable transportation?

Can’t wait to move to where I can walk to work and not have to use them. Lack of reliability makes them pointless.

Season Four?

Season four?

#RickandMorty pic.twitter.com/YDbPxjZVMg

— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) August 21, 2018

What do you think?

Still Thinking About Posting Nothing But Titles In September

I’m still thinking about posting nothing but titles from Roses are Red, Violets are Stealing Loose Change from my Pockets While I Sleep next month.

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You probably think I’m joking…but I’m not.

My Wife Is Nice To Me

My wife went to Costco the other day. Remember how I managed to avoid letting her get a membership for so long only to eventually break down? Well, she’s still nice to me about it. She stopped there on her own on the way home from work and got herself a hot dog. However, she wrapped up the buns along with fresh onions in one piece of foil and the dogs in another. Then she reassembled them at home so I could have one.

She didn’t have to do that. That was very nice of her.

WTF?!!!!

I posted about this already on Facebook, but I’m mentioning it here too. The other day, I was waiting at a bus stop downtown. A helicopter was hovering overhead. Then it left and an unmarked white van pulled up. The side opened and two guys got out. One with a boom mic and the other with some big video camera. The guy with the boom mic asked if they had it covered. I asked what and he asked some variant of the same question. Then he said that was a wrap and they got in the van and left.

I still have no idea what that was all about.

Decided Not To Mess With The Radon Testing Person

As I mentioned, we’re in the middle of selling our house. We had the inspection recently and they left a radon test device in the basement. It’s supposed to sit there for 48 hours while the house is substantially unventilated and then they’ll come back for it. I don’t expect an issue. For one thing, my house was built standard with an active radon system and the indicator in the garage still shows that going. That and never having had a radon problem, I expect it’s a formality. Still, I was tempted to print out this picture and leave it next to the testing device:

I decided it’s probably just best not to mess with the radon testing person, even if I think it’s a good joke. They’ve probably heard it before anyway.

I’m An Idiot

I thought my alarm clock was starting to go out. It’s ten years old now and the display was going dim. I thought that was age. Turns out, I’m apparently an idiot.

You see, we got our house ready to put on the market a few weeks ago. I had to put away the power strip I used by the bed and plug in fewer things, including my alarm clock. As it happens, I plugged the alarm into the outlet controlled by a wall switch, one apparently designed for use with a bedside lamp.

It also has a dimmer switch, the reason my alarm has been dim.

I didn’t even remember we had that. I only realized when an inspector turned off the switch and my alarm was the only thing in the room not working.

I can’t believe I’ve had my alarm on a dimmer for three weeks.