“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.” - Mark Twain
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2006
A post over at David On A Diet tells of the trials of ordering food for young ones. But, ordering from a McDonald’s isn’t the only challenge one faces with food and children.
Many years ago, I would take the children with me when I went grocery shopping. The Little Princess is three years older than [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2006
When I was a child, we used to watch the news on TV from the stations in Savannah. They were the nearest stations to my home town.
Back then, they only had two stations: WSAV (channel 3) was the NBC affiliate, who also carried some ABC stuff. WTOC (channel 11) was the CBS affiliate.
I liked WSAV [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2006
Recently, in an e-mail exchange with Harvey, I made a crack about having to change planes in Atlanta and Chicago. Originally, my not-so-funny funny was going to say I had to change planes in Atlanta … twice. But I realized that, as ridiculous as that was, it wasn’t really all that funny. So, I scrapped [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2006
A sure-fire way to tell if you’re getting old is if you find yourself reading the obituaries. That’s not something the young does. But it’s something that I do.
One of the last times I was in my home town (for a funeral), as I was leaving, someone said “See you next time.” Meaning “See you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2005
Earlier, I mentioned that I didn’t agree with the idea that Winter begins with the solstice. Some thought I was just being cranky. Others said I didn’t have any reason to complain about winter. And others thought about what qualifies as Winter.
Some of the responses and other posts about Winter got me to thinking about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2005
That morning, I got up as normal, showered as normal, ate breakfast as normal, went to work as normal, and when the phone rang, answered it as normal.
That was the last normal thing I did that day.
It was the wife and it was just about 9:00 AM. She asked me if I had heard about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2005
I heard some music on some commercial the other day and it reminded me of "The Right Stuff." You know that movie, right? About the beginnings of the U.S. space program? Sure you do. It’s one of my favorites.
When the cable (and therefore, Internet) went out Friday night, I grabbed the DVD and hit "play." [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2005
My first job was at the radio station in my hometown. Working Braves games on the FM station on weekends developed into working one night a week (Fridays) during football season. That developed to working weekend days on the AM station, playing country music. Then, two weekend nights on FM developed. Eventually, it worked into [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2005
In my home town, there’s a section of town called "The Bucket." It
hasn’t always been called "The Bucket." It used to be called "The
Bloody Bucket." I’m not exactly sure why. When I was in elementary
school, there was a story involving a head and a bucket. Yes, a human
head. But I don’t remember the details and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2005
Monday afternoon, I had a chance to talk with someone who’s in an entirely different line of work, but who had a common history. Well, not common. But still common.
You see, I’m a software analyst. Or something like that. I work for an Evil Corporation (to hear some talk, all corporations are evil, and I’ll [...]
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