Comments on Tales from the Coast: The Name of the Hour

Otepoi: I've gotten very good at Solitaire. Alth...

2009-06-19T09:19:07.875-07:00

Otepoi:

I've gotten very good at Solitaire. Although my favorite late-night timewaster in a game called Reversi that comes with the Mac.

And after an hour, curiously unsatisfied, you ask yourself, "Why didn't I just go to bed?"

The Hour of Solitaire When you sit up, much too l...

2009-06-18T05:25:51.840-07:00

The Hour of Solitaire

When you sit up, much too late, after the family has gone to bed, using the computer for footling purposes.

Not to be confused with the hour of Email Expectation, when you pick up email compulsively every five minutes.

in my case, brainfuzz hour is every hour.

2009-06-15T10:39:55.297-07:00

in my case, brainfuzz hour is every hour.

Boomer, Every so often, it seems the floodgates o...

2009-06-14T14:24:44.313-07:00

Boomer,

Every so often, it seems the floodgates open and folks bring me books. Lots and lots of books. I never thought of it as a specific hour, though. I always thought of it in biochemical terms - book pheromones - signaling that people should clean out their libraries of the old best sellers. How else to explain several days in a row of no books offered to me, then all at once, seven people in a row with books to sell. It's a funny phenomenon.

lk: As POD says -- these days, any time when abso...

2009-06-13T21:59:24.953-07:00

lk:

As POD says -- these days, any time when absolutely nothing happens.... is pretty cosmic.

What, no special hours for booksellers?

Boomer, And who can forget Odd Bodkins and that m...

2009-06-13T15:18:37.866-07:00

Boomer,

And who can forget Odd Bodkins and that most cosmic time of the week, Tuesday after lunch? Apparently, little or nothing was supposed to happen then, which in some sense made it "cosmic". It was the '60s. You had to be there, or something like that.

POD, those are both great.

2009-06-13T06:45:04.893-07:00

POD, those are both great.

The Waiting Hour when as a young girl, you wait by...

2009-06-13T06:30:52.035-07:00

The Waiting Hour when as a young girl, you wait by the phone for that boy to call and he doesn't.

The Blessed Hour - when you awaken before anyone else to drink your coffee in perfect early morning silence, a silence that includes all the birds in the forest.