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  February 5, 2012

     
     



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Former Words of The Day

drive Monday, June 29, 2009
It pushes you. Gives you direction. Thrilling and dull, fast and idle. All things that are exploring the familiar yet unknown. Basins and Summits.


foil Thursday, June 18, 2009
No, it has nothing to do with PowerPoint. Got it?


pendulous Monday, March 23, 2009
What a wonderful word. If you say it out loud it just hangs there.


convivium Sunday, January 04, 2009
It is me. Common, yet unique. Alone, but wide-spread. Stereotype, population: 1


tantric Saturday, September 22, 2007
Relax. It's just a rite.


obligation Thursday, August 23, 2007
One word I can't stand.


hobby Thursday, July 26, 2007
They say a man's house is his castle. Then I say his garage is his temple.


accountability Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Bridges don't spontaneously combust.


serial Thursday, March 22, 2007
As in serial comma. Ambiguous or not, it is, by far, the greatest misnomer of our time.


obnoxious Monday, March 12, 2007
It's the strongest word to describe people around me. I find myself mumbling "Shut Up".


history Wednesday, January 24, 2007
It's what we're made of. Click for This Day in History.


pagan Thursday, December 21, 2006
Ah the joy of sects. One of the many that the Christians felt the need to "borrow" traditions from and claim as their own.


wiki Monday, December 04, 2006
What the Internet was originally supposed to be. Man's greatest creation.


stilton Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Wonderfully smooth. Passionately delicious. Click to learn more about it.


quality Thursday, September 07, 2006
Some people have more than their fair share. Some people have just enough. The rest are corporate programmers.


corporate jargon Tuesday, August 15, 2006
What's left of the English language is in there somewhere.


tautology Thursday, July 20, 2006
This is not a blog. Nor is it a place to aire my opinions to no one.


supplicant Thursday, June 29, 2006
A silence filled the room
awkward as an elephant
In the crowded court of your love


sojourn Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Stick around.


Engage Monday, May 22, 2006
Crud. I forgot what I was going to type. Let's ride bikes!


mischief Thursday, May 04, 2006
Get into a little. When there's no harm done, it's the funniest.


Mock Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Our Lady of Perpetual Mockery


mediocrity Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Watch them eat and get fatter and fatter renting electric shopping carts and driving SUVs. They are nothing but a blur of SSI checks and over-sized workout suits.


insane Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Fruitcake. Loving the rain. 2-Wheel-drive SUV's. Baking cookies for people who don't eat them - and loving it.


fauxmosexual Monday, October 10, 2005
They really do have that cheap plastic feel to them.


egalitarianism Friday, August 19, 2005
g'day mate is ok!


dumb Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Just like dung except that dumb smells worse.


nuclear Thursday, March 31, 2005
No, it's not 'nukular' Mr. Bush. Go back to school where you left off... second grade.


ruddy Wednesday, October 27, 2004
A good time. Or a better than good time. You decide.


vigorous Friday, September 17, 2004
Get your heart rate up, break a sweat, do anything but sit there.


amazing Sunday, April 11, 2004
Lovely weather we're having.


clump Thursday, April 01, 2004
Part wet, part dry. Like scooping only sideways. also as "clumpy" and "clumple" (spooning without warning).


chubby Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Got one?


tszujed Thursday, February 19, 2004
Ask Carson. Click to find out more.


valentine Monday, February 16, 2004
I'm not one for St. Valentines Day but that has been changed forever.


smarmy Friday, February 06, 2004
People who are too particular and yet not anything of any importance either.


sesquipedalian Tuesday, January 27, 2004
I don't know what to say about this one. I don't think I'd ever use it.


herb Thursday, January 08, 2004
Spice or herb? What's the difference? One traditional view is that a herb is from the stem and leaves of a plant while a spice is from the seeds, roots, bark, and fruit.


leadership Wednesday, December 10, 2003
DUDE, get a clue: The MAYOR of Arvin, Ca (Kern County) was cited for a car with illegally tinted windows and having an open beer in the car. Again, the MAYOR.


poo Monday, December 08, 2003
And I ain't talking about that yellow bear...unless he's the one that did it.


overlay Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Too much of a good thing.


effluvium Thursday, November 20, 2003
Did you see that? Ok, good.


critter Thursday, November 13, 2003
When you just can't think of what to call it...or how to kill and cook it.


zucchini Thursday, November 13, 2003
Had them in chip form at Lucci the other night. They dissapeared quickly... word to S. Price (and my man) for the company.


nugget Monday, November 03, 2003
There ain't noth'n better on this planet than anything in nugget form.


nugget Monday, November 03, 2003
This one takes the cake. There ain't noth'n better on this planet than anything in nugget form.


nougat Thursday, October 30, 2003
Some words just sound yummy...this one's on the fence.


totally Thursday, October 30, 2003
Toe-dolly, todally, entirely, goofy...


halloween Tuesday, October 28, 2003
It's not really about candy, you know?


inhibition Friday, October 24, 2003
Gee, I say the sweetest things when my inhibition's are gone.


boundaries Thursday, October 23, 2003
Knowing where they are, you'll know where you are and where you should be... and there you are.


ignorant Friday, October 17, 2003
Oh how many times a day do I think of my most recent long term relationship and this word comes to mind.


metrosexual Friday, October 10, 2003
Yea, right...


acquaintance Wednesday, October 08, 2003
I have way too many of these. They are like old socks. They aren't useful, don't go with anything else, and yet they keep turning up.


pronto Wednesday, October 01, 2003
My not so secret love. He does not know.


lode Tuesday, September 23, 2003
At times, I am one.


perspective Monday, September 15, 2003
From a "word of the day" perspective...


context Thursday, September 11, 2003
Never take me out of it. Remember the whole of me.


spin Wednesday, August 27, 2003
spin = take = perception = understanding = manipulation


surprise Monday, August 11, 2003
I can NEVER spell this word right. Any spelling tricks on this one? Oh, come'on... supe-rize me.


butterflies Wednesday, August 06, 2003
I got'em. Big time. Feels wonderful. Thank you for the sweet face.


flab Friday, August 01, 2003
Too much of it. Yes, too much. All around me.


sync Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Yes, I know it can be spelled "synch" too...but you do and I won't speak to you for a week! Are we in sync?


crock Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Yes...it's a load of.


lonely Friday, July 18, 2003
The last thing I need.


plumb Sunday, June 29, 2003
Like a fool, straight into the middle, and now worn out.


perfunctory Thursday, June 19, 2003
Moving through it. Idle and silent. Caring not. He haunts me still.


disturbing Tuesday, June 17, 2003
It's more than gross, worse than ugly, and trashier than sweatpants at Hometown Buffet.


gush Thursday, June 12, 2003
I saw a woman doing this today. Absolutely frightening.


momentary Monday, June 09, 2003
Lift your foot off the accelerator and let life slow to a coast. The blur sharpens to recognizable details of what is passing. Don't miss a thing.


nascent Tuesday, June 03, 2003
Just found it and thought it was interesting. Have a nice day!


cog Friday, May 23, 2003
Cognition? All that I am, all that I was.


so Thursday, May 22, 2003
So versatile. So, yeah.


chortle Friday, May 16, 2003
Just do it... Especially when you watch yourself make a silly mistake...twice. Give it a good'ol snort and guffaw if it's an especially stupid "Ooops."


flummoxed Friday, May 09, 2003
Back and forth, can't remember, why am I here? Forgot my head today.


repent Thursday, May 01, 2003
Sometimes you have to face the music.


cereal Monday, April 28, 2003
I'm having raisin bran cereal for the first time in years. A moment of lip-smacking silence for the late Dr. Atkins.


Easter Friday, April 18, 2003
Colored eggs, bunnies, the crucifiction, good Friday, it all makes perfect sense.


failure Wednesday, April 16, 2003
My confidence has been cheated for five years.


immaculate Thursday, March 27, 2003
It just happened. I don't know how. My back is sore and I walk funny (see jelly belly article).


creepy Monday, February 24, 2003
That guy's voice on the EDD line that tells you all about it.


birth Sunday, February 23, 2003
Having two different kinds today.


freedom Friday, February 21, 2003
It's Friday. Feel like getting away from it all? Take a drive.


torpid Wednesday, February 19, 2003
As I found myself several times today. Man I need a job.


protest Tuesday, February 18, 2003
So can I protest a protest?


relatives Friday, February 14, 2003
They are coming... I am going.


quiz Tuesday, February 11, 2003
I have a quiz at the beginning of every class. Pretty cool to "have" to study.


sleep Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Every time I sleep-in I find myself back on the couch later in the day nodding off.


ephedrine Monday, February 10, 2003
Boing boing boing boing boing boing boing, whaa hoo! boing boing boing boing boing...


creepy Saturday, February 08, 2003
Because some boys just don't know when to start.


patience Saturday, February 08, 2003
I'm waiting. Waiting for a job, a dinner, and a baby (no, not my baby). It's kind of a blessing. Right?


essay Thursday, February 06, 2003
I'm writing one. I didn't think I ever would again after high school. But, here I am, writing my heart out.


mourn Wednesday, February 05, 2003
I mourn the loss of the Columbia crew. Now, if I only had a reason to mourn NASA.


study Thursday, January 30, 2003
For every hour you spend in class you are supposed to spend two ours outside of class studying. Oops.


syllabus Friday, January 24, 2003
i am in skool to lern now. i like my teechers, she smells nice


hope Friday, January 10, 2003
Just when things couldn't get any worse, there it is.


college Friday, January 10, 2003
It's time I get my butt in gear and do some learn'n!


promiscuous Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Go head, poke it with a stick...


congratulations Tuesday, January 07, 2003
It goes to my very best friend in the world. It's a breath of fresh air for us both.


Blah Monday, January 06, 2003
Lack of vocabulary


Moron Monday, January 06, 2003
I passed one on the freeway today.


oxymoron Monday, January 06, 2003
So for some heavy weight conversation of defining silence…


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