The Admiral’s blog

A Secret Desire

2007-12-19T11:43:11Z

Nothing too steamy here, I'm afraid. But I indulge myself in this desire all the time. Really. I like returning library books to the wrong library. Now, I'm not so cruel to skip-over to another library system, but we have at least half a dozen l...

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QotD: Makes Me Wonder...

2007-11-11T02:14:29Z

Which person from your past, who you've lost touch with, do you wonder about the most? Submitted by ancora impara. His name rhymes with "Luck," and that's all I'll say.

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Charge Card Cat

2007-11-07T02:56:48Z

I have a friend that has a "thing" for charge cards. No, he doesn't like to shop a lot... ever since he was young, and his mom let him borrow the department store charge card (Higbee's, was it?) he has loved those machines that you stick the card,...

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Pens

2007-11-02T00:50:56Z

I have a weakness for stationery stores--everything from so-called "fancy" pens and papers, to your Staples or Office Max. Just looking at all the pencils and pens gives me a high. Tonight I took a secret pleasure in visiting the local Staples. ...

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“Skywaitress! Excuse me, but there’s an odor?!”

2007-09-02T04:07:09Z

N.B. While what I am about to share with you is true, and told in the first person, I am not the protagonist of this tale. I simply feel my own colleague’s experience is better told in the first person. Compared to most, I guess, I travel more by...

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Undercharged!

2007-08-05T15:13:48Z

I recently read an interesting thread at Chowhound. It's premise is this: If you're undercharged on a restaurant bill, do you alert the staff regarding the mistake? Most everyone who has posted there of late has agreed to alert the waiter/waitre...

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Tech Support with Mom

2007-07-28T05:03:04Z

My mother had computer issues last night-today. She calls me early this morning, asking about their "slow computer." We determined she had disc errors... so I told her to try to fix it from the UNIX command line; when that didn't work, she ran the...

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It's talking to me again... (or is that Glenn humming?)

2007-07-09T02:51:16Z

I just read something online that piqued my interest. It was the "about" page, or more formally, a "mystory" page about a 27-year old blogger. He talked about going to therapy, goals for life, etc. And before this I listened/watched a YouTube! v...

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Channel 6

2007-06-23T13:49:50Z

How odd it was to get a call from my father the other day. At 9:50 PM at night, no less. "Has mom died?" "What?!" "You're calling me. Has mom died? Is she sick?" "No." "Oh." Awkward silence. "Hey, listen, turn on channel 6... there's a good...

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Grillin' and Chillin'

2007-06-17T19:51:22Z

Why is it, tell me, that there is an innate desire to grill food on Father's Day? I communicated with my father today, who granted, has no other children... and he's alone there, far away with mom, and he's going to grill. What is it with Father...

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