scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
Colorful car owned by one of our freelancers. I thought he had painted it himself but he said it was originally a yellow car painted over by volkswagen, one of 175, as part of a commercial promotion. My brain can’t remember the year, now.
If you follow the white lines of the parking lot straight back, […]
Phoebe jumps onto my bed and I start into semi-comatose awakeness for a few brief seconds. I have been dead to the world in undreaming sleep for only four hours and I need at least three more, but this is her daily ritual. She circles the bedcovers to give my face a quick slurp and […]
Note from my boss yesterday: Our daily list of “things to do.” He didn’t even have time to type it.
I’ve been given the day off but not for a good reason. It’s more than 3 days that our proofing system has been down. In the printshop every minute the press is down is money lost. […]
BABY
SKUNKS
ARE EVERYWHERE! They are so cute - exact miniature replicas of the adults and just as deadly with their spray (so I hear). The ones we’ve seen are about six to eight inches long with bushy tails longer than they were. Sunday there were four of them rolling around on the east side of the […]
Witnessing one corporation blatantly trying to screw another one was a shock. The aftermath is making life miserable for us drones who do production.
At the heart of the matter is this Kodak XP Proofing System. We had two ten-year-old Kodak proofers and Kodak convinced the powers-that-run-my-office this new one would be twice as fast with […]
More to the point, what’s become of my time?
Nando peered through the grimy kitchen window at the chain-link fence that was bothering him. He was a slightly built young man of twenty-three who almost looked muscular under his baggy clothes but if you looked closely you could tell whatever tone there was to his […]
yes, it turns out the office mummy is quite a ham! It’s tough having a cadaver on the premises when you just don’t know what to do with it. Mummy sits on a stool an no one notices. Mummy perches on a cubicle and stares over the walls, preventing people doing their work. Mummy circulates […]
The remnants of Hurricane Dennis have given us thunderstorms every day for the last six days. I was at work every day but yesterday so I finally got a front-row seat. I like thunderstorms but Phoebe does not. She wants to see what’s going on but the crashes frighten her. I sat on the back […]
DC has been using his newest “gas price” widget in Tiger to try to find cheap gas. You type in your zip code and it gives you the five lowest prices and their locations. So far he has been chasing phantoms; when he finds the gas station the price is no lower than it is […]
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