Waiting for my morning bus from downtown to the island, a borderline bum joined us at the shelter.At … [read more]

3 WEEKS AGO — The people on my ‘team’ at work are scattered all around the office, but soon we’re consolidating, moving to a different part of the same floor, where we’ll all be working side-by-side. … [read more]

On my walk from the Millionaires’ Island bus station to the office, there was heavy jackhammering going on at the brand new and not-yet open light rain station. … [read more]

THE NEVERENDING FILM FESTIVAL #154
Thursday, March 30, 2023
La Jetée (1966)

Chris Marker was famous as a
photographer, not a filmmaker, when he made this film from photographs
and imagination. … [read more]

In a dream, I was walking to the bus stop and happened to see my grandmother on the sidewalk. … [read more]

Two ladies who work at Haugen & Dahl usually wait for the bus with me, and I don’t know them, so we rarely speak. Usually we nod at each other.It’s … [read more]

Anyone who works for a living knows this well, but after two years of wonderfully working from home and then a year of unworried unemployment, I’d forgotten one of the huge hells of working:

CRANKY OLD FART #292 leftovers & links   Saturday, March 25, 2023

Five days on, then two days off, and the first day I’m so exhausted it’s hard to even write this paragraph. … [read more]

CRANKY OLD FART #291
leftovers & links
Thursday, March 23, 2023
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We were both on our way to work, and my quite quiet flatmate ‘L’ rode the bus with me one day last week.

After a rough day at the office — they showed me a new task, and I thought I understood it but boy did I not — I decided I needed something better for dinner than anything I could make, so I tried Matt’s Hot Dogs on East Marginal Way. … [read more]

 CRANKY OLD FART #290
leftovers & links
Tuesday, March 21, 2023They’re still building a few hundred new houses across the street, a soulless development that — still unoccupied — will soon be certified as a boring place to live. … [read more]