Friday night, I again bought a small keg of Red Rooster Amber Ale, and had a group over to grill and drink it. A new couple has just arrived from Dublin, Ohio. They were well-traveled and in a most interesting twist, she had studied Slavic folk dance, which is one of Danka's special areas of expertise after 20 years as a Slovak folk dancer. They ( Read more... )

Defense and running game carry No. 9 Oklahoma to Big 12 title ( Read more... )

Last night, I met the emergency computer consultant, Randy, who flew in from Ohio at State expense to solve the computer virus problem. That's one expensive virus, and ultimately, it's the State spending United States money . . . . He told me the virus originated in a few "Bejeweled" and other yahoo dowloaded games on a specific computer in the ( Read more... )

Tip of the hat to drainbead , whose Ohio St. Buckeyes ripped the Oklahoma State Cowboys 33-7 in San Antonio's Alamo Bowl. Elsewhere in Texas, the Colorado Buffaloes came back dramatically to beat the UTEP Miners 33-28 in Houston ( Read more... )

I was born at 22:10 in Ohio (Eastern US Time) on the 25th anniversary of the " . . . day that will live in infamy" (F.D. Roosevelt). Danka was born sometime (probably just a few hours later -- official birth record doesn't say) on the afternoon of December 8 in Trencin, Czechoslovakia ( Read more... )

I usually have several browsers open at any time. Many times I am searching for information in one to complete an LJ entry in another open browser. Perhaps while perusing friends journals in another. And then they all just close, erasing however much I have written. This far more often than I care to recall. So this is a rewrite ( Read more... )