Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Musings, Short Story, Thoughts, amusement, comedy, daily life, humor, humour, literature, tagged bed, double-entendres, Funny, humour, Jokes, martha stewart, pillow talk, pillows, sex on July 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My wife persuaded me to sleep with Martha. She said that it will make me feel good, and that it was good to have her in bed with us. When I tried to do it with Martha I was spoiled for anything else, and my wife wasn’t even jealous. However, I noticed, that while Martha [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Rants, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged bloggers, blogging, chest, crap, dental floss, Life, looking good, Musings, nylon, teeth, teflon on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t put me down for writing this, for if you are reading this, you are counting yourself in the equal company of bloggers who do not have a life. I just want to get this off my chest.
I never thought about being passionate about flossing my teeth, but dog-gone it, there are standards. For one [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged budgeting, supermarket on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
When I was a student on a limited budget, I had some idea, a hunch, that on average, I spent $2 on an item of food at the supermarket. By counting the number of items I purchased, including more than one of the same item, that I would have a fairly accurate idea of the [...]
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Posted in Christ, Domestic Life, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Thoughts, articles, babbling, bad luck, christian, christianity, church, consumerism, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged Australia, capitalism, e-bay, friends, Friendship, Friendships, money, new life, possessions, sales, selling, wealth on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Article from Reuters Press.
You know, when you engage in any attempt at putting a price tag on your “life”, you will always disappoint. This dude, an Aussie named Ian Usher decided to put his worldly possessions on E-Bay (his friends also, who I am sure are pleased to know they have a price on their [...]
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Posted in Creative Writing, Domestic Life, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Random, Short Story, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, fiction, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, sh-ort stories, toronto, tagged divorce, High Park, house calls, math, toronto, tutoring on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
When the student’s mother called Martin for an appointment for math tutoring for her son, for whatever reason she told Martin she was divorced. Martin was a little confusd as to why she felt the need to volunteer the information, but he ignored it, and asked for her address. She lived on Toronto’s west end, [...]
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Posted in Christ, Community, Famous Quotes, Fortune Cookies, Hope, Life, Love, Loving, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, babbling, church, daily life, god, idealism, inspiration, jesus, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, religion, religiousness, theology, tagged catholicism, christian, christianity, freedom, liberation, Nelson Mandela on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Our deepest fear is not that we’re inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking [...]
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Posted in Academe, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged careers, debt, graduation, starbucks, stevie ray vaughan, student life, toronto, university, University Of Toronto, willie nelson on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I drove my moped to what I thought was a meeting at the University of Toronto, downtown. I find on arrival that I have the wrong date, and after parking and locking my moped, I decided to walk around a bit.
I walk by a Starbucks on College and St. George, and decided to stop there. [...]
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Posted in Forgiveness, Healing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pain, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, tagged abuse, gay, gay bashing, gay lifestyle, harrassment, homosexuality, lesbian on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
If a person is gay-bashed, is it enough on the part of some people to merely think you are gay? It happened to me in Grade 7 and 8, and by Grade 10 it became obvious that they got the wrong guy. Then, after a while, no one approached me in any hostile manner (they [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Community, Creative Writing, Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Hope, Life, Literary, Longing, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Renewal, Sprituality, Thoughts, articles, babbling, bad luck, daily life, friends, idealism, inspiration, liberation, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, tagged horatio alger, self-made man, success, counsel, fools paradise, hard work, nowhere to go but up on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »
There are the Horatio Algers of this world, who have built for themselves a high degree of success by hard work. Such examples are rare. There are others, however, who have no choice, and have to build their lives up from scratch. They just come from negativity and have nowhere to go but in the [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, amusement, articles, babbling, daily life, inspiration, liberation, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged Banks, debt, finance, financing, money, credit, capital, lending, economy, economics, debt-free, pressure sales, advertising, recession, cell phones, payphones on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
A while ago, I posted that I finally saw, for the first time in 5 years, $0 owing on both my credit card and my line of credit. The battle is never over, however. Unless I want to completely free myself of the luxury of a credit card and line of credit, there will always [...]
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Posted in Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Miscellaneous, Musings, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quote of the Day, Random, Thoughts, Writing about writing, amusement, daily life, entertainment, friends, literature, misc, random thoughts, writing, tagged fiction, stories, writing fiction on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Philo was working late again. But the payoff was that he could have the next day all for himself. He wanted to beat his next-day deadline and have his sales forecast all ready by the this evening. He put the finishing touches on his spreadsheets, and imported the tables to word preocessor. Then, after emailing [...]
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Posted in Life, Miscellaneous, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quotations, Quote of the Day, Random, Thoughts, babbling, daily life, humor, humour, misc, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged signs, funny pictures, the pope, catholicism, family planning, contraception, sex on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
This was originally discovered at Patti’s Random Noise. A Google search shows that this one is all over the ‘net, with a complete history behind the sign and everything. I laughed so hard, I could barely breathe; I was even in pain. And, yes, I suppose that particular clinic doesn’t see many clients, having already [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Psychology, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, Writing about writing, amusement, articles, babbling, daily life, democrat, fiction, inspiration, liberation, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, writing, tagged Banks, capital, credit, debt, debt-free, economics, economy, finance, financing, lending, money on June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few minutes ago, I finally, after about 5 years of trying, paid off my debts with the bank, including my line of credit and my credit card. There were times the debt climbed to a nearly unmanageable $10,000 dollars, but after working like a bugger to pay it down, it finally got paid down, [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama, Celebrity, Hilary Clinton, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, QOTD, QOTMFD, Random, Rants, Thoughts, articles, daily life, democrat, liberation, misc, politics, racism, ramblings, random thoughts, tagged assassination, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, grassroots politics, Jean Chretien, John F Kennedy, John McCain, Pierre Trudeau, Stephane Dion, Stephen Harper on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Before I say “Barack Obama”, I would like to say that: from time to time, whenever the stiflingly narrow range of political discourse becomes too obvious in its narrowness, I often look for a politician whose views tend to question those in power. That is, I look for those politicians who still seek the truth, [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, Love, Loving, Miscellaneous, Musings, QOTD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, Writing about writing, babbling, daily life, friends, inspiration, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, writing, tagged articles, babbling, Creative Writing, daily life, entertainment, fiction, friends, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, Love, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, poetry, ramblings, Random, random thoughts, satire, Thoughts, writing on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, I was making a bit of money selling hot dogs at one of those portable vending units near some night clubs. One night, Daryl and Morton, two regulars I knew came outside and stood in line up for a hot dog, then decided to fight over this girl they met while inside. Neither guy [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Domestic Life, Healing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Rants, Thoughts, amusement, babbling, comedy, daily life, humor, humour, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, rednecks, tagged Pop Psychology, Psychology, psychiatry, religion, Ethics and Morality on June 1, 2008 | No Comments »
“Excessive text messaging and email” is now proposed to be included as new mental illnesses in an update to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). These are not the only silly classifications they have.
One proposed mental illness that I have heard from that seminal magazine, the Journal of Polymorphic Perversity, is “Consensual Validation Disorder”. That [...]
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Posted in Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, QOTD, Random, Thoughts, amusement, babbling, daily life, fiction, inspiration, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, writing, tagged american politics, articles, babbling, Creative Writing, daily life, entertainment, fiction, Life, Literary, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, politics, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, Thoughts, writing on June 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The whole thing began in 2001, when the largest nuclear power the world has ever known was brought to its knees by a bunch of guys weilding box cutters and exacto knives. Yes, in the post-nuclear era, countries with the power to evaporate entire populations will have the back of their power broken by a [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, Psychology, QOTD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, Writing about writing, amusement, babbling, daily life, fiction, inspiration, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, writing, tagged articles, babbling, Creative Writing, daily life, entertainment, fiction, friends, Life, Literary, Longing, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, Thoughts, writing on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Once I romanticised learning in its purest form as being a learning done for the pure love of it. I would like to think of my childhood as being like that. But I know that the reality of my childhood was characterized by being one of intellectual vapidity outside of my pursuits, so that my [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, General Comments, Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, Psychology, QOTD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, Writing about writing, amusement, babbling, daily life, fiction, friends, inspiration, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, writing, tagged articles, babbling, Creative Writing, daily life, entertainment, fiction, friends, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, poetry, ramblings, random thoughts, stories, Thoughts, writing on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Some of what I do is to fictionalise my past and make it less boring and more spicy and readable. I find this blog to be a vehicle for practising this craft of writing fiction.
I am 45 years old, so a lot of my past have faded into a dull memory. Even reading diary entries [...]
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Posted in Domestic Life, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, Miscellaneous, Musings, Psychology, QOTD, Random, Renewal, Temptation, Thoughts, Writing about writing, amusement, babbling, daily life, fiction, friends, inspiration, literature, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, truth-seeking, writing, tagged articles, babbling, Creative Writing, daily life, entertainment, fiction, friends, Friendship, Friendships, Life, Literary, Longing, misc, Miscellaneous, Musings, poetry, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, stories, Thoughts, writing on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m into totally believing every story people tell me about themselves. Sometimes, when people tell me their problems, it’s complete horse-crap, with only the flimsiest relation to reality. But I sit in wide-eyed fascination of these artistic bullshitters. I’m just along for the ride, and sitting and listening to these tall tales aren’t really going [...]
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