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scooter nation: December 2006
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006. Talking Loud and Saying Nothing. What kind of a Christmas morning is it when James Brown doesn't Get Up? Thanks to those classy Aussie's over at triple j, we can all put a little Funky Drummer into our New Years. For those of you who, like me, are spending Boxing Day at your desks instead of at the malls, plug your headphones into your PC and check out this James Brown Mix Tape. Don't let the few seconds of distracting garble at the beginning throw you). Make It Funky, y'all.
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scooter nation: October 2006
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Thursday, October 19, 2006. In which I was very decadent. Once a year my Very Corporate Employer does something Very Corporately Nice for me: it sends me to. All expenses paid to attend an editing class. So I am alone on a Thursday night and not otherwise committed to one of the Many Jobs that run my life, as I would be were I at home. I could do anything I want. I thought as I walked. Shop the Magnificent Mile, sit quietly in a café and read a book, maybe even go see a show. And I never left. No thanks,...
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scooter nation: November 2006
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Thursday, November 09, 2006. It’s No Fun to be The Man (The One Where Sparky Talks about Corporate America). Anyone who says that a job in Corporate America isn’t very interesting clearly doesn’t work for my employer. It’s not just interesting, it’s downright fascinating from perhaps an anthropological standpoint exciting, even, in a creepy Very Corporate/Enron/. Days of Our Lives. And a little bit of. Just to round things out. Not a hedge fund! Occasionally, the BWs send someone out from the main office...
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scooter nation: June 2007
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Sunday, June 10, 2007. Zoot Suit Debacles: Step Away from the Thesaurus. The following post is brought to you by the Society of English Majors Against Wanton Thesaurus Use (SEMAWTU). A tumultuous breakup of ice in a river;. A violent disruption;. A great disaster,. I love the word. I do not think that, regardless of the multiple definitions Webster's affords us, I would have chosen to use. In the following context:. I ask you, dear reader: whatever happened to connotation and denotation? Now, before all ...
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scooter nation: March 2007
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Friday, March 30, 2007. Twin High Maintenance Machines. So my kid sister, Weathergirl (referred to in previous posts. You are my Picassos! I deserve to hang you on the wall if I want to. You see, perhaps, where her moniker comes from. But we are, nonetheless, Rather Excited. As a matter of fact, this year I’m. Excited because my friend Big (of Big and Little fame. I asked if he could give me bigger boobs, too. He asked, How big? Picasso, here we come. Posted by Sparky at 1:38 PM. Saturday, March 10, 2007.
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scooter nation: April 2007
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Monday, April 30, 2007. And the Caissons Go Rolling Along . . . Soldier and War Books Sparky Has Worked On. Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Ancient World. Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Middle Ages. Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Early Modern World. Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Nineteenth Century. The American Army in Transition, 1865 1898 (in the American Soldiers’ Lives series). Life during Wartime: Civilians in Wartime America from the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Soldier bo...
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scooter nation: May 2007
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Thursday, May 31, 2007. Strange Way to Tell You That I Know We Belong. But I knew him. Now that Expat's home with the visiting GAFIL, Wilbur does not always wait for me on the other side of the door, but sometimes comes yawning from the bedroom some five minute after I have already been home. Sometimes, the Pre-Kids have already been fed. We are no longer silent together; they have to talk for attention and I have to talk to be polite, to appear Affable and Well-Adjusted. I still peel pieces of mail from...
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scooter nation: January 2007
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Real Women Use Power Tools. He has a wife with a good eye, a steady hand, and not one but two. Levels, who is fearless with her electric drill. So a month or so go when I decided that what I needed most in the world was a set of hooks for my hallway, I did what any DIY buff would do: I made them. Making them was not, of course, my first choice. I did look into purchasing a set of said hooks at the local Targ é. T (four hooks per pack, $2.50 a pack I bought two). This was on the...
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scooter nation: September 2007
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007. So here's a random post for you: in honor of our second wedding anniversary (a.k.a., the Fluevog. The veil actually belongs to Little. Being that Expat and I trooped down to the local courthouse with representatives of the Matic. Clans in tow, I didn't actually have a veil of my own. Big said he wanted to "try something" and I long ago learned to trust him when he gets that maniacal look in his eye . . . Sepia-toned veil kisses: cheesy? What do you call people from Chicago?
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scooter nation: July 2007
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007. I Am Not Dead, I Do Not Sleep. I am moving to Alabama in 2 weeks. I Am Freaking. Out. I will be back with more gripping news and anecdotes regarding:. Our latest anniversary here at the Nation (a.k.a.,. Year 2: The Fluevog Anniversary,. Following on the heels, so to speak, of. Year 1: The Hitchhiker Anniversary. The fact that we've finally taken our wedding pictures;. Why Sparky suddenly became wildly blog-shy last month. Posted by Sparky at 7:46 AM. View my complete profile.