The (Other) End of the Internet

I have spent the last couple of hours surfing randomly from blog to blog trying to find ways to entertain myself while everyone else in the house is asleep.
I just happened upon a blog hosted at blogspot.com that was almost physically painful to read. The blog is written by a woman from the Philippines who […]

I just read a blog post in which the blogger was complaining about needing to lose weight and saying that she was starting the South Beach Diet Phase 1 (again).
It pains me to admit this, but between the side-effects of my daily medicinal cocktail, the fact that I am SO on the wrong side of […]

Now I know there’s something wrong with my brain. I usually keep up with a local e-mail list for people with junk unneeded items to give away. Just now I saw an announcement that someone not far from where the tornado went through recently had some bathroom vanities free for the taking.
When I read […]

That weird guy next door showed up this morning wearing the most hideous outfit I’ve ever seen in my life. Seriously. It looked like his closet puked. A red plaid shirt, a blue and white striped jacket, this truly bizarre pair of slacks that had pictures of antique cars all over them, a pair of […]

For some odd reason (don’t ask - it’s a long story) I just found myself looking up acne treatments online. It’s amazing how many different ways there are to zap zits…Everything from expensive antibiotics to smearing your face with a mixture of egg whites and lemon juice. (Here’s egg on your face! )
Funny thing […]

I think it’s about time for me to have a midlife crisis now.
In about three and a half weeks, I will officially be in my mid-forties. I’m two or three (if I exaggerate) months from becoming a grandfather. My chest hairs are turning gray. And there is a 20-year-old person planning to marry my daughter.
Yup. […]

Since about a week after Daughter Number One got her laptop computer I’ve been swearing at it.
It came with Windows Vista. All of the other machines I am responsible for troubleshooting run Windows XP, except for the one which still runs Windows 98. These machines have been co-existing on our wireless network for months with […]

Daughter Number One has picked out a young man who she wants to be Son-In-Law Number One. We (me, my wife, Daughter Number One, and The Boy) were talking today about what their plans are.
These children seem to think that they’ll be able to get jobs at McBurger’s place (with no car to get there), […]

Ever heard of Wikipedia? In case you’re one of the 6 or 7 internet users who haven’t, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that allows anyone to log in and edit, update, or create articles. Their reasoning is that if you have the whole world updating your encyclopedia, it’s always going to be up to date. […]

I can’t seem to stop going on about that tornado last week. Here I go again…
It’s no wonder that after I got out of the van and was stumbling around in the dark I was completely backwards as to which direction home was. The thing blew in from the West, but the hail I saw […]