The (Other) End of the Internet

Yesterday I got a call from my sister. Now, it isn’t unusual at all for me to get 3 or 4 emails from her every day, but an actual phone call is unusual. The really unusual part was that she called to discuss when would be a good time for her and her husband […]

One of my daughters (I’ll be nice and not specify which one) just came to me crying (literally!) about this “huge, horrible gouge” in her laptop’s screen.
I looked at it and proved my insensitivity to her terrible plight by saying, “Where? I don’t see anything”. I got accused of just trying to make her feel […]

There was a time when I used to be on top of all the newest geeky gadgets and computer-related toys. I wonder what happened. I was looking through an electronics catalog that arrived while I was bedridden these last few days and I’m seeing things like cat5 cables and KVM switches and all I can […]

Did I mention that right before the recent bout of whatever it was started, we had another panicked false-alarm run to the hospital with Daughter Number One and soon-to-be granddaughter Number One?
It was realling looking serious, too. She was having contractions every 10 minutes, then every 5 minutes, then every 3 minutes, then, by the […]

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 […]

Daughter Number Two is thinking of buying her first car. She has a friend who is willing to cut her a sweet deal on a 1999 Dodge Neon. Daughter Number Three is jealous because the Dodge Neon in question is PURPLE. That kid would fall in love with a wrecking ball if you painted it […]

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. […]

Sunday afternoons sure have changed since I was a kid. Time was we’d all spend the afternoon together in front of a good movie on television. (Of course, woe betide poor the soul who made the mistake of speaking during dad’s favorite scene!)
These days, Sunday afternoon means that the kids all grab laptop computers and […]

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 […]