Still here. Busy days combined with lack of inspiration conspire against me. The closest I’ve come lately is when I was picking up a take-out order of hot wings at Ronni’s Restaurant in Clemmons and felt oddly compelled, in a Carson McCullers \/ Flannery O’Connor way, to record the collage of semi-rural America around me as I sat there and waited for my food. I pieced together a couple of sentences in my mind but nothing serious came of it.<\/p>\n
We’re getting a minivan. It’s a 2005 Mazda MPV and we got a good deal on it. I’m finalizing all the paperwork tomorrow so, Lord willing, it should be sitting outside our door tomorrow night. Diane’s very excited about it, as am I, but not quite as much as her. We looked for a couple of weeks, and were locked into the Odyssey \/ Sienna thing for a while. Once we opened ourselves up to other possibilities, though, the Mazda appeared and ended up being a very appealing alternative. We’re psyched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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