The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My sister emailed me the following commentary that claims to be written by Jay Leno. A quick check at www.snopes.com shows that, while Jay Leno is responsible for the last sentence, everything before that was added by an unknown party […]

Somewhere today I heard someone talking about going on “one of those Disney cruises” and I was like, “Huh? What? I thought Disney did movies. You sure you don’t mean that other company…the one with the Love Boat?”
Much to my surprise, though, somewhere off the coast of Florida there is a luxury cruise ship owned […]

I’m taking a break from the running commentary on Romeo and Juliet so I can announce that today is my brother’s birthday. I’ll be nice enough not to announce his age. I know I’m not the least bit concerned about being 44 years old, but you never know how other people feel about their age […]

I was right … sort of.
Romeo and Juliet are, in fact, in the middle of Yet Another Fight. It is not, however, about going outside alone when the police said it was a Bad Idea®. This argument is because someone was online when an Ex-significant other popped up on an instant messenger and the offending […]

Last night was certainly interesting. It felt to me like I was sleeping in one of the hotels in las vegas instead of a house at the dead end of a dirt road just outside of Nowhere, Arkansas. Around 2:30 this morning I half-awoke to the sound of a police siren. My fogged-over brain started […]

The other day I mentioned the flea market down the road. I noticed last night that it isn’t a flea market any more. Now it’s the home base for some sort of taxi service, I think. In a way, that’s a good thing because this end of the internet is severely lacking in any form […]

Now that Daughter Number One is officially married, she and The Son-In-Law are really wanting their own place. There’s just not a whole lot of privacy when your “bed” is in someone else’s living room. To that end, a phone call was placed the other day in order to inquire about a 1-bedroom, 1-bath mobile […]

Somehow recently the conversation turned to strange food combinations. I think this was about the time I was watching Daughter Number Three put ketchup on her broccoli and cauliflower while making a macaroni and cheese sandwich. I was reminded of my father, who liked to open a can of split pea with ham soup and, […]

Our family does something a little different when it comes to birthdays and such. Because we’ve had two daughters attending schools on opposing ends of the state and The Aunt and Uncle are always included in those celebrations, we tend to put off the actual birthday celebration and gift exchange until all the various schedules […]

I know there have been a lot of similar lists of strange things said in hospitals and emergency rooms, most of which have been longer and funnier than this one, but this list has one unique feature: these are all things that I actually heard during my most recent hospital stay.

Your blood count is really […]