For an old retired dude like me, Facebook has been a real blessing. One of the things I like best about FB is being able to see what my brothers and sisters-in-arms are up to – how their careers are progressing, how their families are growing, particularly if I played some small role in their … [Read more…]
The good news is that the walnut bookshelves I built and installed in our library are fully intact, notwithstanding the best efforts of the siding crew working on our house to dislodge them with incessant hammering from outside. The bad news is that the very top shelf disgorged a veritable avalanche of paperbacks on the … [Read more…]
Well, I’m so pleased to sub for (struggling) author JS Bateman this week. I don’t know why he bothers with novels if he wants to get work as a writer? I write obituaries folks, and business is always good. Tax collectors and obit writers have little to fear during market downturns, am I right? Do … [Read more…]
So we needed a name for Marcie’s new puppy when we picked him up about nine months ago or so. His breeding is British, and we were devotedly plowing through every episode of the British TV series “Inspector Lewis” at the time so guess what we named him? It didn’t occur to us the series … [Read more…]
The sprinkler racket is less well known than its many cousins in the rackets family, but I’m certain some dude on New Jersey Housewives is running it with a lotta “botta bing botta bangs” and “ehhh…ohhhhh…s” and other mafia stuff I can’t spell out convincingly. At the micro level, sprinkler repair is no big deal … [Read more…]