Tag Archives: humor

May7

handsy.

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  in a meeting with a group organizing a series of upcoming events

I was casually chatting with a friend sitting next to me

my hands were part of our conversation

as is my habit

(being half Italian after all)

 the leader called on me

thinking I had raised my hand

to volunteer for something

(no idea what it was)

so i quickly blurted out:

” sorry, I was talking and tend to talk with my hands,

but I don’t want to actually volunteer for that, am I in trouble?”

which got a good laugh, as they are all quite good-spirited

(sudden flashback to my student days, not sure why I blurted that out?)

he took mercy on me and let me off the hook but it was a bit awkward.

I pictured myself accidentally volunteering

to be sent to the moon or enlisted in the army or?

‘i often find myself in situations where it seems to me

like everyone else has read the instruction book.’

-jeff lindsay

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photo credit warner brothers, private benjamin 1980, goldie hawn

Apr24

nothing special going on here.

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just another day spent

keeping my community safe

by fighting off a few t-rexes.

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author note:

(yes, I nerdishly looked up the plural for t-rex,

but do think I invented the word, nerdishly)

 

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“we are all here for a spell. get all the good laughs you can.”  

-will rodgers

Apr18

almost here, are you ready?

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get your bonnet on and bake your cake, easter is coming! 

‘creative people don’t have a mess, they have ideas lying around everywhere.’

-lori mcnee

 

 

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image credits: pinterest

Apr13

pets.

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i missed national pet day, but this reminded me.

please don’t tell my cats

I don’t think that they read my blog

but they are pretty clever.

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‘my parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.’

-billy connolly

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image credit: mastodon

Apr11

how did I end up with pizza?

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nothing like a slice of hot and fresh out of the oven

new york style pizza

to warm you up on a cold spring day.

(I really just planned to walk downtown to pick up a book, but…)

 

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‘if properly dried and trimmed, new york-style pizza

could be used to make a box for chicago-style pizza.’

-nick offerman, american actor

 

 

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NYPD, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2025

Mar29

what about bob?

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how my desktop computer setup appeared to me back in the day

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years ago, in another universe

when i worked in the world of advertising

 I was in an office setting and used a desktop computer

of course it was often the bane of my existence

 but somehow I worked with/around it

getting most of the things I needed to do on my computer done

after a lot of trial and error and who knows what

one day, our long suffering multi-tasking creative/i.t. guy

 came into my office after returning from a conference

he sat down in front of my desk and shared something he’d learned there

  they had talked about how every office has a ‘bob’

a person who could do things to their computer

that they could not explain or get out of

or their computer got so messed up

that the i.t. person had to fix it

but had never seen anything like it before

 they had to try to undo what had been done

 the bob could not explain

how it happened

how they got there

what they were trying to do

he said, ‘beth, you are our ‘bob’

he got up out of the chair and returned to his office.

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‘in my case, there are only two kinds of hope – bob hope and no hope.’

-eddie the eagle

Mar19

who me?

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something happened to the little lamb

similar to what happened to the reindeer

the victim of someone with the same m.o.

when I asked around

Pete the Cat

didn’t seem to know anything about it. 

‘guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.’

-erma bombeck

Mar18

sync or swim?

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do your best even if you have no idea what you’re doing

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my post today was inspired by my blogging/podcasting friend

Wynne Leon of Surprised By Joy –

https://wynneleon.com/2025/03/17/all-you-have-to-do-is-ask/

who wrote about her daughter finally getting into a class she was interested in, (glee club), and then wasn’t sure what it actually was, reminding me of my own experience in the arena of not knowing what I was getting into:

i was in high school and my best friend told me she was going to try out for our synchronized swimming team (that I didn’t even know we had). it sounded fun, looked easy, i’d seen it on tv, so i thought why not? i’ll give it a whirl.

the afternoon of the try out arrived and we jumped in the pool with everyone else, but as they went through some different moves and swim strokes, and the music began, it suddenly struck me:

 I had neglected to figure in two important factors before jumping in:

  1. my friend was a great swimmer, strong, athletic, and had been on the swim team for many years
  2. I was a terrible swimmer, did not enjoy it at all as an activity, hated being cold, and just loved to play in the water or float around on a raft

as you might imagine, it did not go so well. it involved some water swallowing and inhaling, burning eyes, lots of thrashing and water slapping, nothing that could be construed as graceful, something really, really far from water ballet, and some spinning and jumping. there were no coordinating moves with anyone else, i was just trying to survive. needless to say, i did not become a member of the club, luckily for me, (and all). but i did learn something that day. it never hurts to try new things, but it’s usually best to have an idea what you’re about to try before going off the deep end or you’ll soon find yourself underwater.

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‘I tried synchronized swimming, but felt, over time, i was just going through the motions.’

-dana gould

Mar10

searching.

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on a recent visit to see my family in northern Michigan 
i was excited to wake up early
enjoy my usual vacation routine
have some quiet morning time
easing into the day
reading, writing
looking out over the beautiful lake
while enjoying a delicious cup of fresh morning coffee
 I was staying upstairs 
with its own tiny kitchen
 had everything set up to brew the coffee
ready to go 
the only thing missing
was the actual coffee
but could not find it anywhere
even after checking every cupboard, drawer, and shelf
I quietly ventured downstairs
searched the big kitchen
in the heart of the house
no luck 
just decaf, not real coffee at all
now that I couldn’t find the coffee
I so wanted it even more
I opened every drawer and every cupboard
checked high shelves
checked low shelves
looked where the teas were
looked on the countertops
checked the refrigerator and freezer
nothing
tried to figure out
their organizational/logical system for where they kept things
went in the laundry room checked all of the cupboards high and low
now I was even more determined to find it
went into the garage in my pajamas with bare feet
opened the extra refrigerator
the extra freezer
nothing resembling coffee in either of them
finally decided to brew myself a cup of decaf
to at least have a morning coffee-ish experience
when my family woke up
the secret location I hadn’t considered was quickly revealed
it was on a shelf at the bottom of the basement stairs
aha!
the basement
who knew?
I forget they had a basement
even if I had thought of it
it wasn’t a place I expected to find the coffee
but no worries
I was now fully awake
even without the caffeine 
powered by adrenaline 
and almost sweating
after my whirlwind of a treasure hunt
 now if anyone needs to find anything in their house
I can help
having learned what’s in every cupboard, drawer, or on a shelf. 
 
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‘searching is half the fun:
life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.’
 

-jimmy buffett

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photo image: zoe coffee company

Mar3

oscars.

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if you watched, didn’t watch, or sort of watched off and on

the oscars/academy awards aired last night.

i’m a huge fan of films of all kinds

and I thought

if they were really made out of chocolate

 if I were to ever win an oscar

it might be a very fleeting moment of fame for me

a challenge for the paparazzi 

as it would no longer exist after a few minutes

i’m a huge fan of chocolate of all kinds as well

but every nibble so worth it.

here is the only Oscar to have ever won an Oscar

Oscar Hammerstein II for his song, 

‘The Last Time I Saw Paris,’ in the movie, ‘Lady Be Good’ in 1941

 

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‘there’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award,

and a lot movies that haven’t.

you just do the best you can.

-clint eastwood