Wouldn’t you think we’d be all settled in by now? Me too. But not quite. We have definitely made progress. We’re down to about this many boxes: The bookshelves that divide the living room from the office are finally put together so we have somewhere to unload those last boxes. The fussy little guy who… Continue reading »
Feb
24
Nov
16
From the “More Than Half of the Population is of Below Average Intelligence” Files
The last time we hired someone to clean our carpets the technicians left them so wet it took two days for them to dry. It was a mess. So in order to stimulate our flailing economy and clean my carpets – which I figure I couldn’t mess up any worse than the professionals had - … Continue reading »
Nov
14
Goodbye to Knee Guy
Knee Guy died last week. He was 74. His obituary, including a photo, appeared in our weekly paper this Wednesday. It’s good they printed a photo or we wouldn’t have known Knee Guy had died or that his real name was George. Knee Guy had lived in a tidy bungalow around the corner and a… Continue reading »
Nov
11
All politics all the time is over…Now what?
Since the election: A 90 year old woman in Evanston, IL was found to be living with the dead bodies of her three siblings, one, apparently since 1980 or so, another since 2003, and a third which was relatively fresh having been seen as recently as March of this year… …A woman in Brazil was… Continue reading »
Nov
07
Friday Flashback: 2005
I spent some time today enjoying the beautifl fall day and plucking bits of randomness from the blog I kept from 2005 until sometime last year. Why? You ask. The answer is procrastination. And avoidance. I have other things I should be doing, but it’s Friday. Nuff said, right? Here goes: ******* Son One called… Continue reading »
