It's a good Christmas so far. The kids loved all their presents, and Amy loved the presents I gave her. There's a turkey roasting in the oven, and the scent is making everyone's mouths water like we're hungry wolves who just spotted an obese elk ( Read more... )

We've all had them...moments of high strangeness, incidents of surreality, things we look back on later and say 'Whoa, that was *bleeped* up ( Read more... )

Sometimes old Mama Grizzly says things so hilariously stupid, she actually makes GW Bush look smart by comparison. Well, almost ( Read more... )

Well, it's finally happened. I have finally grown so old that pop culture has left me in the dust ( Read more... )

The captain wired in, he had water comin' in ( Read more... )

Since everyone else in Known Space seems to have a Facebook page, I decided I might as well join the cult...I mean, join the club.

I'll still post most of my updates and opinions here, since I've been on LJ for so long, but now I won't feel like such an online hermit. At least my family will be able to keep in better touch with me.

Yippee skippee

A boy in New Jersey is being banned from a Catholic pre-school for his long hair. Here's the story ( Read more... )

So I'm 41 today. Woo-hoo. My youth fades swiftly into the distance ( Read more... )

I'm seeing several news pieces about cease-fire/peace negotiations between the Afghan Government and the Taliban. Am I the only one who gets an uneasy feeling about this development ( Read more... )

"Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are squatting rent-free in the tent of Middle American Values and pretending we don't belong there."

-Roger Ebert