The (Other) End of the Internet

As I watch the price of gasoline go higher and higher, I keep wondering what sort of strange side effects will result from this situation. I can just see the day coming when some poor Joe doesn’t have the credit rating to buy a house but when the mortgage lenders see that he’s got a […]

When I got home from the hospital today I was greeted with some really wonderful news. One of our web hosting providers (we use two of them) recently “upgraded” to a newer version of their software and, in the process, they managed to break our MySQL connections. For those who want to know what I […]

Last night ABC News showed a clip in which a Congressional panel was …erm… discussing … the oil price situation with the CEOs of the five largest oil companies. I can’t quote verbatim what was said and I don’t remember, at this point, who was on the congressional panel, other than that woman whose […]

For those looking for the update I never posted, the problem was, in fact, a timing gear that had had all of the teeth chewed off. The guy in Benton wanted $1500 to fix it. Remember, this is the same guy who TRIPPLED his tow bill when he found out he wasn’t going to be […]

The other day I happened upon a list of 30 random facts that was posted at PurpleSlinky.com and found a couple of these “facts” a little hard to believe.
I’m not going to reprint the whole list here. You can click the link above for the list.
“Fact” number one on their list says,
In a lifetime, an […]

Sometimes I’d swear that other drivers are out on the road with the sole intention of seeing how high they can make my blood pressure go.
I was headed to the school to pick up Daughter Number Three for a doctor’s appointment. I was approaching the only traffic light in town. I saw the light turn […]

AGAIN with the BOOM BOOM BOOM outside my window while I’m trying to take a nap!
Just like the other week, I opened the front door and glared at them and the noise immediately stopped. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I’m just over 6 feet tall and about 235 pounds - and […]

Ya know, when you’re lying in bed wishing you could stop trying to vomit up your shoes, that’s not necessarily the time you want to listen to your crazy neighbor fiddling around with his nutty kid’s hot rod.
I really was wishing that they’d win some Outer Banks rentals and go move away to manage them. […]

I just got over something resembling a stomach virus, or flu, or ulcer attack, or something truly unpleasant. I haven’t been able to keep anything down or get too far from the bathroom. It has been suggested that it might again be my lack of gall bladder getting to me. If I eat pork fat […]

An update on the Stereo War I talked about yesterday:
My reasoning for selecting Garth Brooks was simple. You have a young male who likes to drive a hot rod and listen to Rock ‘N’ Roll loudly. The one type of music that he simply won’t be able to stand is Country.
Actually, I really like The […]