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Choosing A Birthday Present

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This morning I was tasked with whisking Miss 8 into town aboard the rattliest scooter in the known universe to search out a birthday present for the little b...

Behold The Blogroll

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In spite of original thoughts to keep this place bare bones, simple, and minimalist, I’m slowly adding, extending, and growing it’s virtual tentacles. It’s n...

Friday Morning 1Am

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I’m playing that game where you avoid the arrival of tomorrow by staying up late tonight. Except it’s already tomorrow, so the game doesn’t really work at al...

An Hour To Go

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I’m in a curious limbo hour this afternoon. I didn’t really stop at lunchtime, which means technically I could pack up and leave now - except I won’t - becau...

This Blog Needs A Banner

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I’m working on it. Honest. Stupid really, isn’t it - I can write code that would floor most people, I can design websites, create WordPress themes from scrat...

Thinking Outside The Box

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For the last several years I have only really followed a handful of blogs - most of them discovered during the inaugural running of “NaBloPoMo” (National Blo...

Splendid Isolation

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In a perverse way, I’m kind of enjoying the fact that very few people have either found this blog, or are reading it so far. Of course this faux-anonymity wi...

The Abercrombie And Fitch Paradox

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A friend posted on Facebook this evening about Abercrombie and Fitch’s marketing strategy - the fact that they don’t sell clothes beyond a certain size in th...

Taking The Red Pill

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A dramatic title for a dramatic act. I just deleted all of the content from my Tumblr account, and posted the rabbit hole quote from The Matrix. After marvel...

Halfway Through The Week

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Weeks that begin with bank holidays always seem a little strange. Somehow it’s already Wednesday. The morning is whistling past like some kind of fast train ...