07.26.10
Posted in Telling Stories at 1:50 PM by Myles
After work, whilst on my way to a local establishment, I walk into the local bookstore. I then walk onto the bookstore’s resident cat. In an effort to step off the cat as fast as possible, I trip onto the very same cat as he tried to get away as fast as possible from the idiot who had stepped on him. We both tried again and were both successful in our efforts.
Only I, however, was successful in gathering stares from the other Humans in the bookstore. I apologized, and a second time on my way out. All in all, I got a story at no harm to the cat.
If I didn’t know better, I’d join the circus.
Be Seeing You.
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07.13.10
Posted in Telling Stories, The Strange at 1:53 PM by Myles
Whilst waiting for a friend at my favorite area bar, I was informed that prices had increased on most beers during happy hour by a significant amount. I was not affected, luckily, but still I noticed.
Whilst church shopping, a fatal car collision occurred at my current church. Obviously, something I missed in person but have been hearing and will continue to hear about for many a virtual millennium. Though part of me wants pictures in lieu of not being there [thank you, Captain Morbid], I do have a fairly good idea and holodeck of what happened [thank you, History Man & Imagination Boy].
Now, to hopefully dig my way to selling more stuff…
Be Seeing You.
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06.26.10
Posted in Telling Stories at 4:57 PM by Myles
Just when I exit the local grocery [a block away from home], I hear a female yell “Thief! Stop! Stop him! Thief, my purse! Stop that man! Thief!”. Her male companion follows suit.
I spy a young man dashing down the sidewalk with… a black purse. The woman and her man are chasing after to little avail.
A grocery worker dashes out from the corner nearest me to intercept, but fails. This thief is fast a la a football sprinter. A parking lot foot chase later, nothing other than a getaway car pulls up. The aft passenger door pops open, but the purse snatcher slowly rounds the trunk to enter the opposite side — then suddenly hurried once he sees that he is still being pursued.
The car squeals the 5 feet to the stop sign, tire smoke included, and left-turns away. Just as the victim, and her man, and the grocery worker, arrive to breathe the dust.
I make it home, drop off my groceries, and return to see any aftermath. There was none — the grocery worker was doing grocery worker stuff, the victim and her man were gone, and there was brief mention of a cop cruising by.
The first purse snatching I remember witnessing personally.
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04.16.10
Posted in Telling Stories at 8:54 AM by Myles
Around Wednesday morning, I received word that an expected package would likely arrive in the regular mail that day. I leave the screen door wide open so that the Post Officer would know I’m home — and so I would hear him call out or knock.
…Skipping the part you can figure out …
The note said it’d be available for pickup Thursday — which is fine and all, except that Thursday was 15-April. Meet the ground between Death & Christmas: Tax Day at the Post Office. I decide that waiting a day wouldn’t hurt.
On the way into work [2nd shift] slightly early, I change my mind and decide to round the corner to check out the Post Office. What do you know — parking spaces. I poke my head in the door — what do you know, only five people in line. Well hey — a Post Officer asking me if I’m picking up mail, letting me be served whilst still in line.
Seven minutes, tops, to pick up a package at the Post Office on 15-April. Thank you, My Stars.
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04.04.10
Posted in Telling Stories at 6:43 PM by Myles
By some calendars, today is Easter.
By most calendars, today is an anniversary of when MLK Jr. was assassinated.
I haven’t experienced a convergence like this since around 2003; I miss being on the radio for days like this.
For some, a dream deferred. For others, a dream realized yet bittersweet. The colours just happened to be switched.
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02.23.10
Posted in Memo, Telling Stories at 7:30 PM by Myles
After 6 years, roughly 4.5 of which were active only on the cameo level, I have fired the 30-Day bullet into my LiveJournal account.
A University friend of mine got me into it back in the summer of 2004, after I had graduated earlier that spring. Later, with “make your own website” encouragement from a different friend of mine, I shifted my LJ use from blogging to primarily keeping up with some University friends, asking for and giving story-related information.
Now, though, enough of my LJ-based University friends have moved away from LJ to leave for me only the asking and giving of story-related information as my reason(s) for staying on LJ. Granted, keeping it up as real estate for my s/n of choice is a decent reason to stay, but… that didn’t seem to add “enough” to the above-mentioned surviving reason. As silly as it sounds, there’s also the privacy concerns — which have only recently started to grow a little more for me.
After a long stew, I finally asked my “Last Question” the other week. I also heard that the friend who got me in, was going out.
The time felt right.
Be Seeing You.
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01.11.10
Posted in Telling Stories at 7:15 PM by Myles
Many years ago, a classmate and I discussed how we wouldn’t see another binary date until 2010. Our lament was appropriate, as we were in our “Digital Electronics” class.
Bonus points if you can guess the date of that discussion.
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