No Internet, No Credit Cards, No Business
posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
My son and I went into a restaurant today, and we didn't make it past the lobby. Plastered in handwritten scrawl above the entry was the sign: CHECKS AND CREDIT CARDS NOT ACCEPTED.
Since we were meeting a group there, I looked at the ATM, but it ...
Since we were meeting a group there, I looked at the ATM, but it ...
Oh, no, you go ahead
posted over 3 years ago | 3 comments
Just about every day I have to go through a certain four-way stop, where at least once a week, the person whose turn it is to go graciously waves me on.
No thanks, buddy. You're not doing anybody any favors, especially if another car is waiting f...
No thanks, buddy. You're not doing anybody any favors, especially if another car is waiting f...
Dome wax
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
When I was a child growing up in the grapevine and honeysuckle covered woods of my grandfather's farm in southeastern Ohio, I never dreamt that someday I'd be updating my own web pages, backing up my computer files, and--well, actually, any number...
Cheap tension buzz
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
Backing up files is just about as much fun as balancing the checkbook, but not nearly as bad as filing taxes. It shouldn't be that way, because the consequences of not backing up, not balancing, and certainly filing taxes are much worse than the t...
My short story 'Detours' won 2nd place
posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 1 comment
One of the reasons I haven't been around Eons much lately is that I've been trying to spend more time writing. I've written a couple of books, and am trying to get one republished, while working on rewrites for the second one.
And in the meantime...
And in the meantime...
I burned my nuts
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
My son asked me what smells bad in the refrigerator. I didn't know. Stuck my head in and didn't smell anything.
Later, I smelled something like burned wood. Couldn't figure it out, but then I remembered.
Couple days before, I'd tried a new recip...
Later, I smelled something like burned wood. Couldn't figure it out, but then I remembered.
Couple days before, I'd tried a new recip...
Jamming
posted over 4 years ago, updated 8 minutes later | 0 comments
One of the things I miss from my misspent youth is jamming. No, that's not making preserves out of the strawberries we picked at the farmer's market, it's playing music with like-minded, instrumentally-enabled people in a jazz sort of mentality, f...
Time keeps on slipping
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
The relative speeding up of time as one ages is a well-documented phenomenon. It seems to be a reverse corollary, because as we age, the days are smaller percentages of our total age. For instance, to a newborn two days old, one day is half its li...
I meant to do this earlier
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
I have a habit of procrastinating, which sometimes costs me money, or at least points, sometimes both.
I do that mypoints.com thing where they send advertiser emails and I click and look at the websites and get five points or so. Sometimes I buy ...
I do that mypoints.com thing where they send advertiser emails and I click and look at the websites and get five points or so. Sometimes I buy ...
One man's worry, another man's consideration
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
I started to post this as a reply to the commenter to my previous post, but after going on and on, figured it best to make this its own blog.
You're right. I can be anything. A person can convince himself he is anything despite the circumstances....
You're right. I can be anything. A person can convince himself he is anything despite the circumstances....
