Decided to make some actual posts here from time to time, as Facebook is balky about allowing LiveJournal to port my entries there over here ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of January 15, 2015
In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter "e" didn't appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of April 24, 2014
If you happen to be an athlete, the coming week will not be a good time to headbutt a referee or take performance-enhancing drugs. If you hate to drive your car anywhere but in the fast lane, you will be wise to try the slower lanes for a while. If you are habitually inclined to skip steps, take short ( Read more... )

I'm making a batch of Monkey Bread for the first time in more than a year and a half.

Oddly enough, this seems to be important...although I cannot guess why.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 3, 2013To give you the oracle that best matches your current astrological omens, I've borrowed from "Sweetness," a poem by Stephen Dunn. I urge you to memorize it or write it on a piece of paper that you will carry around with you everywhere you go. Say Dunn's words as if they were your own: "Often a ( Read more... )

Using my Smartphone to access the 'Net a few hours ago and for some reason it cuts out and goes through a restart.

And just a moment ago I had to do the same rebooting work with Precious.

Something is rotten in that nation between Germany and the Scandinavian Triad.

I'm not so sure that I can say I "matured" as a viewer a lot in the early 1980s...though I was by that time giving up a lot of the sitcoms and action shows that I liked in the Seventies.

1980-81 Season
* Favorites: Private Benjamin, M*A*S*H, House Calls, That's Incredible, Real People, Games People Play, Magnum P.I., WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & ( Read more... )

In the summer of 1979, we moved again from Pittsburgh to the Tampa Bay area. The second TV was placed in a "Florida room" of the house, that was originally designed as a garage but never actually built as such. After some months of sharing a bedroom with my brother I somehow persuaded my parents into replacing the old sofa in the Florida room ( Read more... )

(This is part III, I Started With THIS Entry and then Continued In THIS OneWe moved to Pittsburgh in the Summer of 1976. And that brought changes...I was allowed to watch much more prime-time programming...and we installed a TV in the lower-floor family room next to the bedroom I shared with my brother. A lot of habits changed because of that ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 27, 2013"The only thing that we learn from history," said the German philosopher Georg Hegel, "is that we never learn anything from history." I'm urging you to refute that statement in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I'm pleading with you to search your memory for every possible clue that might help you be ( Read more... )