The (Other) End of the Internet

I noticed this the other evening while watching The Waltons with the kids. In the episode titled The Pony Cart the Waltons get a visit from Grandpa Walton’s sister-in-law, Martha Corrine (played by Beulah Bondi).
The 90-year old Martha Corrine looks amazingly like the Emperor from the Star Wars movies. Given that Star Wars takes place […]

Recently, someone posted a comment asking why I refer to my children as “Daughter Number One”, “Daughter Number Two”, and so on instead of just referring to them by name. This post is an answer to that comment.
The short answer, not to put too fine a point on it, is: my blog, my rules. I […]

Daughter Number Three has surprised me. I’ve made a comment or two on here about her disturbing interest in Alvin and The chipmunks combined with her apparent fascination with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Last night, I discovered why I’ve been hearing nothing but high-pitched singing coming from the computer in her room. She’s been making a […]

This new grandbaby is keeping us all jumping. lately she seems to have had her days and nights a little bit backwards. This means that we’ve been taking turns sleeping.
Fortunately, she seems to be getting things straightened out over the last few days, so maybe I can get back to posting here on something resembling […]

I like to think I’m reasonably fair when moderating comments. Generally, as long as it is a valid comment that tells me the commenter actually read the post, I’ll go ahead and approve it.
The names that appear on some of those comments occasionally make me laugh out loud. I understand the concept of using […]

Recently I drove Daughter Number Two to Fulton, Missouri so she could tour the college she plans on attending. Since it’s almost a 12-hour trip, we drove there the night before and stayed with friends. The college campus is beautiful. I was very glad I remembered to take my camera along. You can see the […]

This laptop I’m using may be used, but it’s still new to me and I still find myself wishing for one accessory or another. I recently spent $12 on eBay for a “new” cooling pad that was missing half it’s screws and bent when it arrived. I complained to the seller and he sent me […]

It doesn’t seem possible to me that it’s been a week since my last post went up! I could make some smart remark about how time’s fun when you’re having flies (or something like that), but the truth is that I’ve just been busy doing other things.
A large part of what I’ve been doing is […]

While I was typing the last post, I heard a commotion coming from the next room where Daughter Number Three and Daughter Number Four were taking turns on the computer. It seems that one of them ran two minutes past the agreed time limit for her turn and the other one literally took a swing […]

Daughter Number Three has developed a thing for chipmunks recently. Specifically, Alvin and the Chipmunks. She spends an alarming amount of time on YouTube looking up song videos that have been “chipmunked” (meaning that someone with the same strange obsession and a sound editor has raised the pitch on the audio so it sounds like […]