It's been awhile since I posted and, by tradition, I try to have a new post up on my birthday. Well, that didn't happen this year. Actually a lot of posts didn't happen ( Read more... )

With the modern era of up to the millisecond world wide newsbites, it is easier to be thick skinned than to be a caring human being. I like to blame information overload for a lot of this, but I think Joseph Stalin actually summed the sentiment up better than I could anyway. "A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." Some facts are ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my last post, I am being sent to Minnesota by the company I work for. Now, I would like to put some things in perspective here. My older brother works for a company that, when they send him someplace, that sent him to places like Brazil and Scotland. My father needed training on how to operate and repair a machine his company ( Read more... )

I have to preface this story with a comment about my relationship with movies ( Read more... )

Earlier this year I disappeared briefly while my air conditioner was out of commission because I really didn't feel like talking when I was miserable. Well, now it is later in the year and even hotter and we went for round two ( Read more... )

I usually try to be better about posting to this thing as that seems to be the way 90% of my friends verify that I am still alive. I probably should get a Twitter account just so I can send out a weekly message of "Still alive!" At some other point in my life I might have worried about the fact that most of my friends have been reduced to a ( Read more... )

Well, no real big updates on my life at the moment. Unless you count the fact there is a man standing outside my house right now with a chainsaw who has agreed to cut down a troublesome tree for $250. Unless I have to take him to the hospital, an event I have not entirely ruled out, for the moment I have some free time to just fill space ( Read more... )

To my masses of adoring fans, and by that I mean Dave who is the only person who seems ever discover my little corner of the Internet. Particularly if I summon him by name. He's like having my own personal djinn ( Read more... )

So I saunter into work on wednesday morning full of my usual optimism. That is to say, I was sure the day would end in disaster. I generally expect disaster and I am rarely disappointed. I knew something was up when I saw a coworker who gave us smoking standing outside smoking furiously.

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The other day my wife wanted to go to Meijer to investigate some items they have on sale. Yes, this is what my life has been reduced to. Anyway, guess what we saw there? One of theseLook at that! It's a shopping cart with a little cabin under the actual shopping cart for the kids to ride in and it plays videos of kids programs. The ones in ( Read more... )