Jeff Macfee

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Entries from July 2009

Male 37 seeks fun

July 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Exactly the kind of blog header likely to keep me from ever obtaining another job.
I find something lacking in my career of late, and that is…fun. True–work is called work for a reason. Everyone has days where there is more labor than anything else, more getting through the day than living the day. But I [...]

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Armchair athelete

July 26th, 2009 · No Comments

I bowled over 250 without getting up from the couch.
Sure, it was only on the Wii. But my helpless competitors stood and flailed, swung wildly and rattled off strike after strike in vain. I triumphed in a way no less magnificent that if I had vanquished my foes on the lanes of a PBA competition [...]

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A new idea

July 4th, 2009 · No Comments

The idea entered my head a few days ago that I was out of story ideas. The concept mildly alarmed me–I’m only a third of the way into my present novel, and I still occasionally prod a work-in-progress short story with a mental stick. In short, I’m not terribly in need of a new idea.
But.
But [...]

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