The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Daughter Number Four has been making noises recently about the idea of saving her allowance untils she has enough to buy a refurbished laptop. I got curious and had to go see what was for sale in the price range […]

I was talking to my older sister the other night - online, of course, since she’s now living in South Korea - and she was telling me about some of the genealogy research she’s done on our mother’s side of the family. She’s managed to trace Mom’s ancestry dna back to pre-Revolutionary War Massachusetts. She’s […]

Because there really wasn’t any other place available, when The Baby came home, we put her crib in our room. Over the last year, we’ve figured out the hard way that she’s not overly fond of waking up in total darknesw, so I’ve taken to leaving the monitor on my computer turned on at night.
I […]

My sister forwarded me another email this morning that I simply MUST rant about. I’m sure most people have probably seen this email in one form or another; according to snopes.com, it’s been circulating since August of 2006.
The email in question talks about how this person was stung by a bee and they simply put […]

It’s hard to believe that Mother’s Day is coming up next month. Didn’t we just celebrate Mother’s Day last May?
Oh, wait.
I guess I need to start watching for a sale on stuff my wife will want the girls to find for her. She’s always going on about how difficult I am to shop for, […]

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m just a little bit hooked on Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. I’ve flown a virtual Learjet around the world, taken a Cessna single engine plane into the Grand Canyon, and even tried my hand at flying Lucky Lindy’s Spirit Of Saint Louis (and failed, miserably, by the way).
In my own defense, however, […]

Babies are hazardous to your mental health. That’s the conclusion I’ve reached after watching what happens when Granddaughter Number One is brought into the room.
Several people can be sitting around the table having an intelligent conversation about anything from the current economic situation to the unreasonable tax on cigarettes to which is the best weight […]

I got one of those things in the mail yesterday trying to convince me to buy the insurance policy they’re selling. This is one of those that comes complete with a fake membership card with your name already on it. I promptly filed it in the place where I file all such documents.
This morning, when […]

I recently heard the phrase, mortgage life insurance for the first time and felt the need to find out what it is. Here’s what I found out. Mortgage life insurance is a life insurance policy that pays off your mortgage if you die. Death benefits are always equivalent to the balance owed to the […]

Most kids today probably remember John Ritter mainly as the father on Eight Simple Rules. I, however, am officially OLD and I can remember him playing Reverend Fordyce on The Waltons and, of course, Jack Tripper on Three’s Company.
For the last few years we have skipped current network television in favor of older shows […]