“Eeek!”, the author exclaimed. “What is it?”, was said in reply. “I didn’t write my story for today yet”, was all she heard as he flew to his computer. “Now what can I write about…”, he said, as visions of sugar plums and dynamite, cannons and catnip, dragons and bagpipes, and all other forms of …
#31 To Do List
The list grows long and short again I wish it would be gone some days It makes one long for the time when I simply sought relaxing ways But now it’s ever near me Shorter and longer it forms Checking items is the key Keeping away from life’s storms. [SSDay]
#30 Reset
There was a time when the reset button wasn’t known to Rob. Reset buttons were a fairly new invention, only appearing within the past 10 years to the select few who could afford them, lived in a country that allowed them, and weren’t afraid to use them. The Synapse company produced the units, under an incredibly long …
#29 Leap Day
Jim the Bunny hopped everywhere. He hopped to his rabbit hole at night, he hopped out in the morning, and then hopped around all day. He hopped to his job as a Bunny Knitter, and he hopped to his part-time DJ’ing gigs on the weekend. He hopped repeatedly, rapidly, quickly, furiously, and furriously. The point …
Encryption – It’s Not Just For The Paranoid
Recently I purchased a few external hard drives for backup purposes, and the first thing I did with them was to encrypt them using TrueCrypt. When I mention this to people, I generally get a sorta weird look. Sort of a “If you aren’t doing anything illegal [which I’m not, if you care], why do you …
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#26 Flash
It had been 6 months since the day when Mark found the list in an old hoodie he was putting on for the first time that September. It wasn’t too remarkable – just a list of chores for the day, 11 months ago. call insurance agent buy eggs call Kelsey’s school drop off Jo’s car print …
#22 Jim the Bunny Learns to Knit
Jim hopped through the forest with a giant grin on his face. He’d just grabbed a bunch of files from Jabberpaw, and had covered his internet tracks by paying off Sylvester the snake. Now he just needed to get home and load up his found files. On the way, he tripped, since he wasn’t the …
#16 Take It Away
The old library sat unused, the new one sat next door. The old library was the site of many a hot debate by impassioned undergraduates inspired to succeed as they were the first to attend college in their family, the first to be able to sit around all day and think as opposed to work. …
#14 A Valentine’s Day Poem
The flowers were shaking, as I walked to the door My senses were confused, they were torn I was about to meet a girl, for the first time in person Yet I was calm, not anxious or scared. Time passed, we bonded, and we longed to take the next step I became We, and We …
#13 Attention to Detail
He had a keen sense for details, and she hated that about him. As they walked along the beach, he might interrupt the sunset to comment on the missing screw in the “swim at own risk” sign. As they stood at the train station, he’d point out the open plastic weather flap over the bolt …