We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

I’m outside, on the deck (10’ X10’ of floor planks and rails, sadly in need of attention). For “attention” read “restoration”. Today is my day off. There is no chance of me doing anything that needs doing beyond the already accomplished sweeping of the arbor vitae droppings and cleaning of the patio table and two…

I hate getting those cutesy mail-it-to-everbody joke emails. As a rule, I don’t send them, and I seldom read them. I have a friend, who I otherwise think very highly of, who includes me on his mass-emailing list of jokes. He’ll send out three or four of these a week, and each email may contain…

I’ve been taking pictures throughout the day. It makes me feel like I have some control over a situation that is quite out of control. This was my deck at 2:00 pm. My deck at 3:30pm. My deck at 7:00. I stuck a yardstick in the snow. Right now, at 7:30, it reads 21.5 inches….

Right you are, WA. To be honest, I didn’t recognize the comment as a troll’s till you put me onto it. I just thought it was some stupid kid who was used to soaking off of Mom and Dad and didn’t have a clue as to the realities of adult life and the honor in…

I went to Google just now to look something up. I was greated with their banner-of-the-day honoring the 30th anniversay of Pacman. The page was taking forever to load, and I realized that the banner was actually an interactive, real game of Pacman. So of course, I played a game. Afterwards I couldn’t remember what…

The message board I help administer has suddenly taken an interest in Dear Diary. I had expected a few of the more adventuresome of our crew to go exploring here, but I did not expect that this place would suddenly turn half a dozen of them into Diary Junkies. Half of me is amused, the…