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Disbelief

Posted in Whiskey Tales, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Why on Earth do you read them more than once?”
The questioner’s tone of voice drips with shock and disbelief as if I had casually admitted to sniffing white-out. Moments prior I had casually mentioned to the girl sitting next to me (a beautiful freckled young lady equipped with a British accent, a [...]

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Shopping Blues

Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The lights flashed and flickered into darkness as Mom finished her fifth catwalk down the aisle. I sighed yet again, noticeably upset that I had traded in a beautiful lightning storm for women’s shoes. As I understood it, Mom needed a third pair of Asics to replace her current “good pair” which she would [...]

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Dated

Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged , , , , , , , on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The last line of the digital notice Pat and Tiff sent me prior to our blind double date read “have an open mind and no expectations.” I think that this was Tiff’s way of trying to assuage my fears and rising anxiety about the whole dating-process.
Dating and I are like oil and [...]

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Systems Analysis

Posted in Whiskey Tales, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »

The instructions on the assignment bore into my brain like a drill. Look through Flickr. After finding three photos, derive your own tags for the photos and then compare them with others’ tags and the metadata provided by the Library of Congress.
Gah . . . every word tightens my nerves like another turn at [...]

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