We recently made a purchase for Gabe from Amazon. Whatever we bought (I can’t remember what it was), had a special offer of a free one-year subscription to a magazine named Cookie. How great is that? I would really enjoy reading a magazine dedicated to the science and art of making cookies. It’s hard for me to stay current on the current trends and new discoveries in the world of cookies. The magazines logo didn’t suggest much about the magazine either. I guess I should have been suspicious when the Os in “Cookie” weren’t cookies.
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When I was a kid, my dad had these things that looked like pieces of chalk that he would use to stop the bleeding if he cut himself shaving. I hadn’t really thought about it until recently when I was in the shaving section at the grocery store and found something called a styptic pencil, a product “For Minor Cuts and Insect Bites.” It contained two pencils. I’m not sure why you’d need to buy more than one, they seem like they would last at least a decade. That is, unless you were an extra clumsy shaver.
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I set up my camera today to try to take some pictures of birds at the bird feeder. Of course I didn’t see any even after waiting around for 10 or 15 minutes. I left the camera there and did some other stuff until I noticed the cat sitting on here window perch looking at the bird feeders with her tail swishing… good cat. Normally I don’t see the birds she’s looking at until she drops their corpses at my feet. I do feel kind of conflicted about that… while I enjoy watching birds, I also enjoy having a cat that is a mighty hunter.
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Have you ever found yourself saying, “That dude’s hair isn’t just messy, it’s uncombable?” Well that’s very insensitive of you. He might be a victim of the little known Uncombable Hair Syndrome. Guys like that must hate people like me… my hair is perfectly combable, but I haven’t combed it in 15 years.
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Say… you know what’s interesting? Unusual methods of execution. I found this one a few years ago and then forgot about it. It came to mind after reading a particularly saccharine Mary Worth in the funny pages. I just can’t understand why newspapers are wasting money on this garbage. 80% of the comic strips at best don’t make me laugh, and at worst fill me with rage. We’d all be better off if they’d just replace this slop with old Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes strips.
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