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Aday, a fool on fool's Errands.

Amorro, a collector of brambles.

Thereyago & TwasEverThus

The Hour is not lost on me.

i can fix it all, remotely, at the shack.

{Technology is wonderful, until it fails}

Meanwhile, i am well back at my chosen werk

and being schlammed with all the yard debris

which came down in the wintre winds; i prefer

a busy parish=yard to a slow starting Season!

Fridayish, in the Epochal millennium^>

Frydé, April 3rd, +9...

TITLE: Weary yet Wondrous Walking

TEMP: 54°, grey and rainy [things'll grow]

MOOD: bright for one so beset of Concern

PUXXLE: march 1st~100%, completed on Yard

PRESSURE: 96/66 pulsing 82

MUSIK: NPR & 70's at werk, ishpod walking

NOISE: warsher/dryer, berds in the Rain

WIDEO: that er finale, sappy but good

GROX: eggs, 2% milk, olive=oil mayonnaise,

bread, boiled ham & unsalted potato chips

HAER: cut this morning for the Season

THOT: «Give slac 100,000 dollars and he can

Settle it out to the tenth of a Penny; but, lend

him a Fifty and he's apt to waste it frivolously

on food and medicine.»

TEXT: yes, it has been a rough month or so

of Accounting errors, BUT i have recently, gleefully,

sliced up two (2) of my debit cards. {They are never

as good as walking into the banque and schpeaking with a

beauteous Telleress} Plastic OR Papre? i am

Coming to the late, lamentable Conclusion

that printed money is way far bettre than

schwiping a magnetised strip into the Ether

of electronicle mayhem! Too soon old, too

late schmart. Altho~germ=ridden notes do

tend to make for a lumpy mattress...

Yesterdé, i submitted an Application for

extra werk & surfed the Intraweb at the

Town library [they^ have the fasterer

connection than what i normally use.] One

of my customers actually werx in that self

same edifice to CARNEGIE, but this^ was the

first Time i saw him there. Aday, i ran into

BRIAN at the recently refueled gas station

AND anothre Client in the market. He told me

to look for him on the coming day. These^

are such ones who Fare=me=Well...

Happy Holy=Days from the slac^

zoom

i'm running around like a nut, publishing this from the Liberry...on account of certain wiring troubles at 'home'. Mo' and betta lata... ~slac~

klaw

TITLE: «Pounding Pavement»

TEMP: 50°f, sunny but Glovey

FLOWRES: asters, crocuses, daffodils

OCCUPANCY: 100%, aday

THOT: «There were Days like these in the

foretelling, but i was Young & inattentif.»

PRELUDE: March 26th, i found anothre Dime in

my Path [like yesterdé] AND helpt two (2) older

women Across TILMAN Avenue. On my way to othre

things, of gourse. There is a great Satisfy in

werking as well and as long as i did Yesterday

at the Parish Yard, and in entertaining the

vocal, thotful aids of my brothres & sisters.

Regardless=of=much~i find the Ones who

care for me are close to hand, including also

NANCY, my Supervisor, who granted me more

werk...and JEFF, my room=leaser, who has the

great Patience to hold me fast while thinking

of replacing the roof tiles which blowed off

during this windy Wintre! *Blessings*

TEXT: Tuesday, March 31st, and9...Altho i wake

with berds & sun, i am schtill behind of much!

The days which lengthen toward the High Holydés

also increase in broad and recurring troubles.

Yet~no courage has left me, acause i am werking

well while Xploring for more werk=as=well. [an endeavour

i ought've Took up twenty months ago]

Teach me to become semi=soluble in a Time of war.

Less=the=Never~my regular customers keep

helping and asking after me...NANCY [teacher]

brot me a cola with pufft pop=corn Saterday &

ERNIE [who loves cold weathre] brang me an

Apple and a ham sandwich yesterdé while the

bins were being traded out. My people^...

Also~BRIAN toted me 'home' from the Yard last

night as he was the last customer on the dusk.

My boot=leathre was thus Preserved for anothre

long walk. Amorro, as well as werking, i will solve

the werld which the President [Barack]

and i have inherited from Persons even so much

like my=self that i can scarcely Amembre the

many, many errors which have Accrued! ~Veritas~

id est, i move resolutely from Plastic to Papre,

from intangibles toward Objectif reality, paying

OUR natural faults to Faith... ~slac~

dray

Friday, March 13th, °9...

i used to think the following were just

Xpressions. Not no more.

There's more month than Money.

We live from paycheque to paycheque.

One can choose between Food & medicine.

Oh, never mind~the Patriarch had the

perfect werds for it,"Things are Tough

all over." {Wise for one so Young}

Reposit: the Girls are so busy showing

houses on their turfs, they can

hardly be expected to call me more

than three (3) times a week.

[it's a real=estate joke^] And

speaking of fone=calls...i can

honestly say, when the Firemen ring

or the Sheriffs, or the benevolent

association of County Aggregates,

that,"No---Hane is not here." [^edited>]

Besides which~they always fone

when i'm trying 2 write a cogent and

scintillating Glow entry. Maybe not

this one...but your call may be

recorded 4 future sales purposes.

~O'slacAmacOmac'saMany^

March 17th, °5^ Futurific Reposit: [edited]

Wednesday, March 19th, °8...nearly

three (3) years later & just as wet!

WILY WILLY WISITS WALLEY: i am one

of the fortunate vagabonds who meandered

into that west=end COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL

arena where BILLY BLYTHE gave a speech

in favour of his wife, while reminiscing

wistfully about his own Term in Office.

{i didn't schtay for the whole monologue}

Oh! And i met a very nice yoga instructor

while i waited. History: i attended an

ELO concert in that same building when

i was a mere child & Yes, i inhaled...

The dé was moist, cool and grayly dreary.

But i had to wandre on to buy a brisket.

Modern day: Monday, March 16th, +9...

On my way to werk Saterdé, i found a

dollar on the pavement outside the grox

schtore. And as much as i wanted to cram

it in my own pocket, i lookt around and

askt after two women if they'd lost one.

Sure enuf, the woman just getting into

her auto had droppt it. Honesty--i'll haf

to keep cultivating it for the time being.

Werk was busy until dusk...but not every

body in the Parish knew i was open. It

was a cool dark walk back to the N'hood

where i nearly live. ['tho i walk thru

a shadowy walley, i'll take the extra

hours.] Aday was not nearly as well

attended by customers but the new guys

contracted for the roll=offs are cool.

No brisket this year; i'm just finishing

off a can of 'meatball stew'. Irish!

~slac~

kiln

previously unpublisht Material:

Mondé, March fifth, °7...i drove the Black Beauty

yesterdé and i drove it again todé. This is becos

Turtle is nursing a head cold---he barely walks around

the APT. Last night, we had the billy=chili over rice;

todé, we split a can of WEDDING SOOP. The COLONEL and

his bride called us last night, saying they were 'checking

in'. I'm not sure what to make of that expression^, but

both MAISY and the COLONEL seem to like its locution. His

bride wanted to be sure i heard about the trip to Ireland.

And we filled in some othre blanks of informaxn. Soon enuf,

we will see evybody at COUSIN MAISY's nuptials in Carolina.

Fridé, March 9th, °7...ROCKY dropt by the apartment todé,

the dé after her birfdé, to do some finances with her

Sire. What an amazing thing to witness! WE are all fighting

a pernicious rhinovirus. The only thing worse than

Talking with Turtle while he's tickt is Talking with

him=self while he's tickt AND fighting a COLD! The

bettre dés must come, surely. [edited]

Like i said~the bettre dés MUST come. It seems a good

place to end log=jernal thirty=three (33). Sneeze.

Tuesdé, February 26th, o8...Ever get the feeling you

were on the wrong side of the tightrope? The under=side??

The least i can say on this dreary, cold, wet, rainy

Tuesdé is that my taxes are done. Evything else is

Forlorn. [edited] Pride does go before a Fall, even in

Wintre. Well~my sheets are clean & my Soop is tasty...

Fridé, March 7th, °8...the landlord casht his cheque.

The JEHOVAS did visit. Turtle called from Vegas to tell

me he's winging East=wise. The rain has schtarted again,

as if we did not yet get enuf! i am on the verge of

putting up a BABA chili for my=self and whomsoever will

have it. [edited] It's gonna be a long month until i go

back to werk, waiting for my tax refunds. Ah, well~Life

isn't so much Hard as too darn long!

Thursdé, March 13, 2°°8...Cousine [name] gave birth to

her [boy=child] last fridé! HooRah! Turtle is safely back

in [State]. Yesterdé, i bumpt into [Neighbour] at the

grocery schtore; we talked about Housing. {i also askt

after her brothre, RON...he's doing okay} [Apt Neighbour]

said a funny thing as he pickt up his mail: "You haven't

seen me since I got my HDTV...Acause i never want to leave

Home." This week, i have to fill out a radio survey; they

won't get much information from me Acause i only use the

Radio to wake up. *TATCWP*. The storage people need

more cash than i've sent them...something else to fix

with little And no money. {it's normal for me to panic

around this time of month any=how} What to do~What to do!

Good Fridé, °8...Wezné, i wandered over to [the college]

to see BILL CLINTON schpeak. ^edited ProLogue/Prelude^

Thursdé, March 5th, +9...a Wise old ancient once said,

"Better a Neighbour who is close at Hand, than a brother

who is far Away." It puts me in mind that the engineer

is well travelled but some=times badly used. A wise more

modern One recently said to me,"Be carefull of those

storage units; YOU might end up Living in one of them."

And as i walkt thru the CITY yesterdé, i noticed two (2)

Prisoners being Escorted to & from the CourtHaus by

their constables. {i thankt the Grace of G i wasn't

shuffling as PETER toward Places i wisht not to go...}

Also~as i trod past the central bone=yard, i sighted a

faer-haered Maiden adjusting her Electonicle ankle

bracelet as she approached my Freedom. This! i had not

expected to witness at all--a young and Precious thing

encumbered by a footed black box which covered the very

base bone of her Motion! {they^ are fierce markers that

i should Notice on my reckless, feckless Travels}

Aday, i traded two coins of filthy lucre for five of a

lesser Value & a piece of papre which got me Coffee &

Eggs..the sum of current Occurences, as i pet the dogs,

watch the ROBINS and Wandre thru this wily werld.

~consternable~slac~

flat

"Never mind~i have anothre range on

which to make my chicken soop."

~slac-buses-to-visit-neighbours~

And he walks for the sake of walking.

i made a point of visiting CAT at her

new location. [Yes, anothre move.]

Her schtove & her fridge are setting on

the Porch of her home=row. ~Best of best,

they did move well & now, they are

permanent campers like me. ~It's a fair

thing that they were my first Visiteurs,

and i was theirs. Perfect progress...

^8=28=°6^---slac don't post on Sundé.

Friday, February 27, +9: Who knew there

was gonna be so much turmoil roundabout

when them moves was made? WAIT! i knew

it Completely the minute i turned over

the keys to the Hovel! [a pre=date of

the current hausing crisis?] Scrape and

Scrap, i have done no bettre than anyone

else in these dearthly dire Days; afact,

my schtumbling 'progress' has paralleled

each & every faulty schtep of the past

four (4) Years. {T'ain't none so Blind

as them that loox away} Yet, then again,

one only meets up with those troubles

which are customised toward the Soul...

Saterdé: the Yard was only as cold as my

hard black heart, And yet not as busy as

the Cathedral with its catafalque of

another departed Bishop. It's gonna be

a long, lean Lent...

tern

Tuesday, February 20th, °7:

It was me driving through that

blinding snow=squall

between

Frederick and Alexandria. On

SUNDAY, we travelled South again,

this time to see Kay in her condo.

She is about to undertake a major

renovation

of the schpace;the

Engineer and i went to help pack

boxes and move some furniture.

{didn't i just pack a gaggle of

boxes about two years ago?} It

was a great visit And Harry served

us capuccino yet again. We'll have

lots more fun at COUSIN MAISY's

CINCO de MAYO nuptials;and, for

lent, i'm giving up cruise control.

--movableMac--

Open Records! Legislatif Reform! Even a

constitutional convention would be nice.

Let's keep they feet to the fire^ *rant*

Oh, never mind~it's just a thing. ~slac~

^reposited from Septembre Fourth, °7^

Tuesday, September Second, °8...and i

Expect no less from Sarah Palin and

the operatifs in Minnesota...this Election

will turn on who does and does not get

the Constitution of these United States.

...Onward, Young ones!

{i'm schtill getting my skooling in so many

venues; one Day, i may finally learn}

~proEdukationle~slac~

Mondé, February 23rd, +9...The sun did come

Out on Saterdé, as did some regular cuddies.

And tho' as cold as was, i did paste my

Xposed face with screen=sun. [the roll=offs

are filling Anticipatedly unto the Season.]

Aday, i folloed the instruction from the

Engineer to forward his actual mail anon.

{these^ are few and fiddling, 'cept His

call to jury=duty in His behind-left state}

There were twelve (12) unseparated people

afront of me at the post office, but i

unravelled my ishpod for the brief Time

and was glad to be out of the fierce Wind!

This Year, like millions, i am renouncing

Poverty for LENT. It is a schteep climb.

Presently, i marinate a chicken breast

for Monday dinner. ~XecutifableSlac~

inlaw How much?

slak~ hey

inlaw heool

inlaw or....hello

slak~ abso

inlaw ipso

slak~ who had Latin?

inlaw surely

inlaw red too

slak~ warm enuf?

inlaw tdw today

slak~ i actually had good turnout on Yard

inlaw u betcha

inlaw long ride

inlaw sunburn forehead

slak~ i did spf?!

inlaw never thought about it

inlaw put top[\ down about miles away

slak~ yeh--weird with hat & gloves

slak~ wind in all that hair

inlaw uh huh

inlaw ice too

slak~ beats vacuuming the interior^

inlaw dat too

slak~ litter just flies out onto cyclists

inlaw uh huh

inlaw heaar from Kay?

slak~ yes

inlaw how she?

slak~ they have schniffles

inlaw awww

inlaw [amount=less]

slak~ that's a pity

inlaw bad time to retire

slak~ or almost anything else!

inlaw yeah

[pause]

inlaw reading?

slak~ watching cosby?!

inlaw sent lots

slak~ i've saved a bunch of jokes...printed ones

inlaw as opposed to?

slak~ the bigger videos

inlaw ah ha

slak~ have to look at the linkt stuff too

inlaw uh huh

slak~ still messages in e=mail

inlaw geez! What are you doing all day?

slak~ i clean out the box on sunday

inlaw and the rest of the week?

slak~ internet sporadically

inlaw ok, and what else?

slak~ copy cds from town liberry

inlaw ahhh

slak~ and other outdoor adventures

inlaw what's her name?

slak~ names?

inlaw /smiley/

inlaw and ages???

slak~ gotta check that!

inlaw yah...no mo teenyboppers!

slak~ they sloppy dressers nowadays...

inlaw ya

slak~ off i go~Legend of the Seeker

[edited]

inlaw where you go/

slak~ lead & follo

inlaw at same time?

slak~ it's easy

inlaw [link]

slak~ looks cool; i'll check it out

^IMP edited^