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The Mostly Weekly - Sep. 29 2008
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- You may have noticed I changed the name to "The Mostly Weekly." I figure this name is most accurate to how often I will be putting this
thing out. Next week is looking dodgy. We shall see.
100 Words - The Plastc Orange Army Man (fiction)- Today I found an orange plastic army man on the sidewalk. I picked him up and took him home and put him in the bag with my green and gray little plastic army men. I bought the bag at a yard sale with the intent of making an animated toy war epic. I got everything ready. I set up a table-top diorama movie set. I had the camera. I had the editing software. I even had a Brian Eno song picked out for the soundtrack. But I could never muster up a story. Maybe the orange guy will help.
Whacked Word of the Week- platonic - The favorite soda of cartographers
The Funnies
Puzzles for the Rest of Us - Crossed Words-
1 2 1. Double ________
2. The building blocks of sentences
Writing - New Short Story- RUNNING HOT AND COLD
Home - TBD
For the last month I've been working under my house reinforcing the wooden foundation. It's lots of fun. It involves digging down to
the bottom of the support posts and either reinforcing or replacing the wood. The digging has revealed a pile of stuff, mostly
just bits of junk, but also a few bones. Nothing scary or menacing though, and nothing identifiable.
Then I had to replace a section of the rear deck due to a water heater issue. I pulled up the deck which I thought was six or seven inches off the ground. However the "ground" turned out to be three feet deep of debris. The previous owners, or their contractors, I don't know which, dumped all the junk from previous work in this hole. I pulled out the pieces that were still intact, then pulled out the rusty bed springs, then still had seven contractor trash bags full of decaying pulp that needed to be shoveld out. Mixed in the debris were thousands of worm salamanders who must now find new homes. I'm sure the lizard gods are none too pleased with me.
Also mixed in the debris were the bones pictured here. After finding them I sifted through the rest but found nothing else. I looked up animal skeletons on the web and I'm pretty sure they are a racoon's hip and leg bones. I think there's something wrong with me because I'm disappointed I couldn't find the skull.
Sports - Tom at the go kart track- A ragged practice on Go Kart Racer's Super Track
Guest Editorial- Myunee Buscheck examines Gov. Palin's appeal
Off The Wires- Some of my favorite stories from the past week
- The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time - included mostly because it includes the Amiga's dreaded guru meditation
- The world's smallest motorhome?