For purposes of emails about getting and spending money, I’ve had one for a long time with the username:
argent
It’s a word that means ‘silvery-white’, but of course in my poetics, Silver means something else that is very important, besides money.
I wanted to transfer to a new mail provider, and argent was taken there. So was every variation I could think of. So I went to what we might call Scrabble sites, trying to figure out what else I could do that was built around ‘gen’, and was silvery.
One of the first things I found was a different rare but real word:
margent
noun
1. An outline, edge, or border of something; a river bank; = “margin”
It can also mean scribbles in the margin of the page.
This is even better. It’s argent and then some; La Frontera.
Good news.
The bad news was that margent@myNewMailProvider.com was taken too …
But the good part II was that I was able to find an untaken variation that satisfied me.
The main reason I was doing this today was to facilitate something much more important than an email address. So I can now proceed with … that.
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In the meantime, the toilet clogged and none of the quick fixes have done anything. It’s bad, and inexplicable, because I always treat old plumbing very gently and only put actual bodily waste down the damn thing. Not even TP. And I keep it closed pretty dependably so nothing falls in, but mainly because I don’t want pisswater cat kisses.
It’s pretty hard to figure.
So I guess I’ll be studying the nuances of muriatic acid and the like pretty quick here.
Late update: A big pot of boiling water disappears down the hole almost immediately, but a subsequent regular flush is slow as ever. So that’s extra weird.
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The underdog Texans and their good likable QB lost to the Ravens. The Niners did their best to lose but won; the faithful are praising Saint Greenlaw who picked Love twice to be the savior.
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The rain is starting on schedule as predicted tonight and the next three days are supposed to be gray, though not frigid.
Mixed blessings at every hand.