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Now that Daughter Number Two has graduated from the Math and Science school in Hot springs (and she passed calculus! WooHoo) she’s been walking laps in the circular driveway. This is partially because she wants to get the exercise she’s missing by not walking all over the school and partially because she CAN now that […]

It’s a very happy day at this end of the internet as we welcome the newest edition to the family, Mollie Elisabeth. She is Daughter Number One of my own Daughter Number One, so she shall forever more be known here after this post as Granddaughter Number One.
Before anybody asks, no, I did not misspell […]

One thing I noticed while attending the graduation ceremony today was the amazing number of people who didn’t seem to think it was a formal occasion. There was mention of that fact in the letter from the school detailing when and where the commencement exercises would be, so I broke down and dug out a […]

I attended Daughter Number Two’s high school graduation ceremony this afternoon. It seems like just yesterday I was the one wearing the cap and gown and proudly walking across the stage in front of six or seven hundred proude parents. Now I’ve watched two of my children do that. Where does the time go?
When 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 […]

I was trying to do a special-effect in a video, just to see if I could get it right. I was trying to do the “green screen” trick that almost all sci-fi movies use to make spaceships look like they’re actually in space.
The idea is you film your actor / space ship / whatever standing […]

My brother has had a problem recently with being short of breath after the simplest of activities, so he went in last week for a 4-hour stress test. I have no idea what that involves, but I do know that it sounds like a whole lot of no fun at all, to quote a friend […]

Today I’m mourning the passing of a truly great individual.
I knew he was in poor health and not long for this Earth, but I only learned of his death when I Stumbled Upon this page:

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us […]

The other night the local news ran some article talking about all the recent severe weather we’ve had and discussing the improvements in the way mobile homes are built compared to how they used to be a few decades ago. They interviewed some guy who swears that “manufactured homes” today are every bit as safe […]

About a week or so I sent my laptop to a guy in Washington State because it had a problem with the jack where the A/C adapter plugs in. It seems that Dell Laptops are famous for having the power jack break loose from the motherboard.
I couldn’t be happier with the job that “Dr. […]