Posts Tagged ‘personal’
Crappy Prius (really)
It really is a crappy Prius. I do not know the details yet and won’t until at least Monday. My 2002 Prius had some sort of electrical short which completely drained the battery, according to the mechanic I had the car towed to today. The special hybrid battery [Read More]
Two Degrees
The holidays are a funny time. One remembers things such that he is only two degrees separated from ___ ___. I have very few living blood relatives, but among them is a second cousin whose $100,000 Bar Mitzvah I attended at a posh New York City hotel some twenty years ago. [Read More]
Toastie Plays The ‘This Was Written A Long Time Ago So Don’t Get Freaked Out’ Game
As I did a few weeks ago, I’m pasting in an old journal entry, with some stuff censored so as not to reveal sensitive details. I can’t quite articulate why, on Novemer 30, 2008, it is important for me to share this. If there were, hypothetically, 100 chemical [Read More]
Toastie Plays The Blog Tag Game II
The wonderful Ashley Sue tagged me a couple of weeks ago, and I have yet to play, until now. I was tagged back in March for a similar task, upon which I listed 10 fun facts about myself. The rules go something like this: Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on [Read More]
To Whom It May Concern
You’ve got me in a quandary. I’m not going to reference what you requested I not reference in this blog. But…gosh, geez…I’m a tad frustrated… I’ve just spent an hour trying to write something that sums up this unfortunate [Read More]
Block
I don’t just have writer’s block when it comes to this blog. I am having trouble composing emails, both at work and of a personal nature. I do not know if I actually suffering from some sort of cognitive difficulty as a result of kidney disease or if my mind is [Read More]
Some Specific Cavalier Notions That I Detest
I have to say that it sounds to me like you very much would like to be someone/something that you are not but at the same time are not willing to take even baby steps to reach the standards you have set for yourself. I believe it was Einstein who reminded us that doing the [Read More]
more blather
Too fatigued to write from laptop. writing in bed from phone. not a fancy iphone like most tweeple seem to have. got to use t9 no i cannot do this. i am even too exhausted for this. can’T even hold phone without dropping it which is an apt metaphor for life right now. [Read More]
deformities and other blather
“It’s a rigid, inverted forefoot deformity,” said the podiatrist. Or something like that. I’ve been Googling for what it is exactly, and I can’t find it. The point is, I’ve apparently had deformed feet my whole life. I just learned this [Read More]
things you don’t want to read in your facebook feed
Old-acquaintance #1 has written on The Wall of Old-acquaintance #2: “Guess who asked to be friends today? Toasty!” And you know, based on your trepidation that Old-acquaintance #1, whom you’ve known for a dozen years, never really considered you a friend, [Read More]
