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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Because we live in the middle of nowhere, we have several dogs. We have 5 dogs who stay outside all the time and one dog who spends most of her time in the house and just goes out to do […]

I got a phone call yesterday afternoon from my eye doctor. They were calling to let me know that my right eye is scheduled for June 30. On the one hand, I’m really looking forward to getting this done because the vision in the eye that’s been fixed has gone from about 20-400 to 20-30. […]

We have several outside dogs and one inside dog. One of the outside dogs, Misty, is a blooming idiot. She derives great amounts of enjoyment from running down the driveway barking her fool head off and then, just before she gets to the road, she’ll stop and turn around to see which of the other […]

I’m sure that as kids my generation had several words and phrases that drove our parents up the wall. Now that we are parents, our children are paying us back for what we did to our parents. For example, I hear conversations like

First Kid: Will you stop that!
Second Kid: Whoa! Angry much?
What’s THAT? One of […]

Standing in line at the store today I heard the two guys in front of me talking. One of them was going on and on about how his annual travel insurance payment had gone up.
I was standing there thinking, “Whaaaa! My heart bleeds purple Kool-Aid for you, buddy. I’m struggling to figure out how to […]

I’ve noticed an interesting trend on the local radio stations. The DJs are obviously not using their real names on the air. I can understand that’s a privacy thing. When I was a kid, the girl who lived next door had a part-time job at a radio station. Since this was an AM talk-radio station, […]

It’s been one of those days all week. While Daughter Number Three was in the hospital, I apparently picked up some intestinal bug and brought it home. I proceeded to spend the next four days running to the bathroom so that everything inside me could come out any available orifice. About the time I started […]

I had quite a shock today. For the first time in about a month I went out to buy some cigarettes. My wife and her mother usually buy a month’s worth at a time and when the smokes run out a few days before they’re due to get more, I make the trip into town […]

Max is our cat. He’s nine going on twenty if he survives the weekend. Being a male cat who was never “fixed”, he still has an obnoxious habit or two, like howling at the top of his lungs at random moments, or falling off of the window sill that he’s too fat to be lying […]

My laptop is a very hot item. Literally. It has a long history of overheating itself and shutting down in the middle of what I’m trying to do. Some time ago I found a program to monitor the CPU temperature and adjust the fan speed accordingly. This helped a little bit, but the main advantage […]