The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!My two youngest daughters each have birthdays in the next week and a half. They’ve been playing all sorts of games trying to get someone to cough up some information about what their presents are. If either of them thinks […]

I meant to get this update typed up last night or today but between being so tired last night and so busy today, this is the first shot I’ve had.
Okay. Remember when I was complaining about the obnoxious neighbor who felt he was wronged by the cops because they ticketed him for smoking his tires […]

I haven’t griped about the crazy neighbors lately, have I? I have been trying to simply ignore them - quietly hoping that that will, in fact, make them go away. I haven’t succeeded in making them go away yet, but I have managed to keep my little world reasonably calm. Until today, that is.
You’d think […]

I’ve been thinking about what I said yesterday in my rant about that online photography contest. I’ve decided I’m going to do exactly what I said. I’ve picked out this truly awful picture that was taken almost five years ago with an el-cheap-o digital camera which, looking back, was little more than a toy. By […]

You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now. Think again.
About three or four weeks ago I found and entered an online photo contest. Two of the things required on the entry form are your email address and your street address. If you don’t provide these items, you’re not going to enter the contest. Since […]

Recently someone commented that my blog posts employ proper grammar. This is due largely to the fact that while I was learning to speak my mother was very careful to correct improper grammar and then explain why, for example, it was okay to use “who” in one sentence but you must use “whom” on another. […]

I heard this from my eighth-grade daughter yesterday and today and I’m still not quite able to believe it.
As a little background information, once a year the schools in Arkansas give their students the Benchmark tests. This is a government-mandated test that is part of the wonder that is “No Child Left Behind”. In […]

I have run into a problem recently. Since I got my laptop, I tend to spend most of my computer time in the front room using the laptop where I can see and hear what’s going on in the world, instead of hidden in the back of the house using the desktop machine.
The problem is […]

Does that title sound familiar? Ever seen that message before? We see it quite frequently, due to the fact that we live 90 miles from the nearest television station.
Last Christmas we all went in together and bought Mom a new television. We didn’t have the resources to go all-out and get an HDTV, but we […]

My mother-in-law has a strange cat. This animal occasionally decides she must be in some really strange spot. Her favorite trick is to wait until Mom has her file cabinet drawer open and then climb into it.When she does that, poor Mom has to wrestle with her to get her out.

 
This is a stunt she […]