April 2011

Zapped by Macy’s!

April 3, 2011

Lenten thanks, Day 23 Well. At least it’s nice and quiet at four in the morning. Except for Sheriff Joe’s ubiquitous helicopters, which use the skies over our neighborhood as an aerial freeway. Update: This all turned out for the best. A Macy’s supervisor took charge, figured out why their statements had never reached my [...]

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Another Carnival Headed This Way

April 2, 2011

Lenten thanks, Day 22 Thanks, God, for Guinness beer. And for Young’s Double Chocolate Ale. And for all the other foamy-delicious treats that come in cans with widgets. Nine ayem and I just finished the first two rafts of student papers. Fortunately, the class is small and a shocking number of classmates didn’t bother to [...]

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Money Happens; So Do Fiascos

April 1, 2011

Lenten thanks, Day 21 Thank God for WordPress.com! Two nice little checks for The Copyeditor’s Desk just came in: a payment from Google and a handsomer remittance from an editorial client. This brings the corporation’s bottom line to almost six grand, plenty to buy a new computer, which I’m going to have to do one [...]

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