The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!The desktop machine I’m using right now has been nicknamed Frankenstein because I built it out of pieces and parts, most of which I bought on ebay, some of which, however, were salvaged from computers that had quit working. It originally had an S3 Verge video card but, when I discovered that video card […]

Here in the middle of nowhere we’ve only been able to pick up two television stations: ABC and PBS. Ever since about two month after “The Big Switch”, however, for some reason other, we have not been able to pick up ABC at all. There was a debate recently about whether we should spend what […]

Remember Johnny Cash’s song, “Folsom Prison Blues”? It just came on the radio and I got my daughter wondering about my sanity because of something I did.
There is a part of the song that says

They’re prob’ly drinking coffee
and smoking big cigars”

but, because of a mistake my younger sister made one time […]

As I type this we are in the middle of our first blizzard of the year. Earlier today I heard a couple of police officers over the scanner talking about how they wished the governor would authorize the use of “near deadly force” on people who try to drive in this weather when it isn’t […]

My friend’s daughter is looking for baby announcements. That hardly seems possible. It seems like just yesterday when she was a crying, screaming, wriggling mass of arms and legs. Now she’s going to have a baby of her own?!
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that that was twenty-five years […]