Waking Up

The right music to wake up to is important. Nothing crazy is my motto. Smooth into melody. I think I’ve hit the nail on the head with this one. Maybe a little too good. I’ve got the perfect morning song that ends up stuck in my head for at least an hour each morning after [...]

Early Nights and random stories

I was in bed crazy early last night. 10:15pm I laid down. That’s insane. But other than that I’ve got little to write about this morning. So, another short, off the top of my head, Rory’s Story Cube inspired story. ___________________________ Jim – at least he called himself Jim, he wasn’t really sure who he [...]

Summer of Refinement

I made last summer the “Summer of Self.” Basically I the goal was to read books, draw, get my finances in order, and get in better shape. On the read books goal, well I’ve read a few books over the last year, but sadly not as frequently or in whole as I wanted. I more [...]

The Closed Fist

I think I slept last night with a tight closed fist. Not that I’m positive it was all night long, but I woke up with the fingers on my left hand hurting and needing to be cracked. Just stiff. I know I woke up once during the night and straightened my hand out. I don’t [...]

My father… or Cause I’m a Charpentier

So I find that I do best biking when I listen to either talk radio or a book on tape. I know… you’re not supposed to listen to music while biking, but I can’t help it. I don’t turn it up loud, I can hear cars coming from way down the street, and have never [...]

Damn you rain…

Looking at the weather last night I knew there was no way I could bike to work today. It was raining pretty good when I got up. Thirty minutes later its passed and fine now, but I would have had to bike through that rain and that’s not an option when biking to work. There [...]

Biking to work

Last year I biked to work several times. Of course by this time last year the weather had changed to consistently warm and sunny, where as this year it’s been warm and sunny one day, and snowing the next. I’m not kidding. This has been a year of bizarre weather in Cleveland. Last Thursday we [...]

Snooze

I am not normally a fan of the snooze button. That’s not exactly true. I set two alarms instead of using a snooze button. One for 5:30am and one for 5:50am. Nothing in between. If I don’t get up at 5:30 then I sleep until 5:50. And I never get up at 5:30. But that’s [...]

Elephant Dreams

What does it mean when your dream consists on trying to get a baby elephant onto a train to go to work with you? In the dream it seemed like I spent an hour or two trying to keep the elephant hidden and get it on a train. It was a cantankerous elephant, and every [...]

Story Time #4

Thought I’d start a random story since I haven’t written anything in a while. This is straight from Rory’s Story Cubes, although I wasn’t able to get a picture of that this time. _____________________________________________ Once upon a time there was man named Jim. He was a happy sort of fellow. A little carefree, or at [...]

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