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Welcome back!About a week ago Granddaughter Number One decided that I was just the most important person on the planet and the world was going to end if she wasn’t in my arms. This is probably caused by the fact that I’ve always been her favorite person combined with the fact that I was gone […]

In the city where I grew up, there was a shopping called Northland on the North side of town, a financial institution called Southland on the South side, and a shopping center called Eastgate way out east. I often wondered why they didn’t come up with something called Westgate to put on the West side […]

I finally got the chance to see Iron Man recently. I can’t say anything about whether it followed the comic books at all because, frankly, when I was reading comic books, Iron Man wasn’t my cup of tea. I was more of a Fantastic Four and Superman fan. I will say, however, that the movie […]

My wife came in this afternoon and said that she had gotten trapped in a conversation with the obnoxious neighbor guy. I was actually glad that was sick in bed all day; otherwise it might have been me.
It seems that this week he’s been reading about Flowering Japanese Magnolia trees and wants […]

Daughter Number One has decided that she wants to go back to school. She says she wants to go back and get her teaching degree because she just wasn’t happy with any of the jobs in sales that she’s held. (Those would be at the world’s largest retailer and at the Golden Arches.)
She says that […]