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I know I haven’t exactly been what one would call “prolific” of late, what with being in the hospital and then half asleep because of the antibiotics they sent me home on. Today doesn’t look any better, either. My daughter came home from college for the weekend and, since she’s got class tomorrow morning, I […]

We were talking about hotels (I don’t remember why) and it occurred to me to wonder why it is that the hotels in Las Vegas are named backwards.
I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their hotels have names like “The Tulsa Excelsior” and “The Tulsa Marriot”.
Once you go to Las Vegas, however, you start finding names […]

The more I think about it, the more I miss being a kid. I miss the days when I didn’t have to worry about paying an electric bill - I just had to make sure I turned off the bathroom light when I was finished with it and my biggest financial concern involved managing […]

I get a lot of those emails that end with “forward this to everyone you know” or you’ll suffer some horrible fate ranging from bad luck to acne to who-knows-what.
Normally, to be honest, I’m willing to take my chances with not forwarding them because by the time the email makes it to this end of […]

Did you ever wonder what Operating System the computers on Star Trek: The Next Generation use?
Well, wonder no more.

I saw a t-shirt one time that said something like, “Every day I’m forced to add another name to the list of people who can kiss my ass.”
Today’s winner is the person on the phone with my wife as I type this.
I’ll be kind enough not to mention his name or what he’s done to […]

Okay, the marble countertops are nice, and the “touchless” access is great for mnimizing the spread of germs, but, for crying out loud, we’re talking about a public restroom. Does it really need to be bigger than some houses I’ve lived in?

Why is it that when a plant is real and someone is expressing how beautiful it is, they say it looks good enough to be artificial, but when that same person is looking at an artificial plant, they’ll say it looks good enough to be real?

The people who do this sound to me like […]

The other day I made the comment on here that hospitals are boring. Well, I had it driven home to me yesterday that doctors’ offices are no better.
My daughter had a doctor’s appointment after school yesterday. Too early for her to ride the bus home, but too late for me to just pick her up […]

I had the strangest dream last night. I won’t bore you with all the bizarre details. Instead I’ll just mention the part that I can’t seem to get out of my head. Somebody, somewhere had passed a law that any man convicted of rape would, in addition to all the standard punishments normally dished out, […]