October 2011
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Tumblr is really dead. It only just turned midnight on the west coast. WTF. Fine. I’ll just go to sleep.
EDIT: WAIT A MINUTE
My cat wasn’t coming in after I first posted this so I stalled and spent like 20 minutes on flossing and brushing and washing before bed. I went out and looked for her again and when I got to the bottom of the steps she started howling from one of our big...
Lovely Old Men: Update!
Remember Bob? The one who borrows newspapers and with whom I chatted about local trails? He was waiting for me when I got to work earlier this afternoon. Apparently, he prints and laminates trail maps for local search and rescue teams, so he’s got maps a plenty. He brought me five or six maps that are full of topographical information! How lovely.
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
– Thomas Jefferson (via schnozberries14)
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Lovely Old Men
One of the joys of working at a neighborhood Starbucks (rather than a university-oriented store) is that we have many older people who come in daily, and without them, we’d just be dealing with a bunch of angry lab workers and annoying (frappuccino-ordering) high schoolers. They make our time at work more pleasant, and we respond by working harder to please them!
I had two great...
You didn't have to do that!
I didn’t expect it to actually work, but some of my lovely Tumblr friends did leave me messages while I was gone! I love you all, but especially:
sunflowerforest (I asked one of my fav old timer customers today about some good hiking in the area. You down for a hike up in this area? He says the wildflowers are perfection after the fire.)
thejunoreport (I like the Los Alamos drinking game....
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Leave me lovely messages
So that when I come home from my long morning shift (4:30am-1pm) I can say I have messages waiting on me when I come home. I think by then I’ll really need a pick me up or two. Here’s a picture of a fluffy kitten to butter you up to the prospect (my cat’s littermate, Gregor).
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Love your parents.
jtkovich:
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”
Margaret Mead
Leo Fuchs Shirley MacLaine “Irma la Douce”, With Daughter, Paris, 1963
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Just when you think you're over something
your subconscious brings it back up in a really vivid dream.
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