Every Time You Go Away...

... you take a piece of me with you.

It's 8:18 AM and she has just left for Jacksonville, to see her mother. I understand why. I have a mother too, and there are times when you just have to take care of business.

I Just Filed For Divorce...

... from the cable company. From October 2000 until January or so of 2008, I had had both cable TV and internet service with the cable vendor serving my subdivision. For about the last two or three years of that time, I was usually unhappy with the internet service we were getting.

Stop That Or You’ll Go Blind!

I was being my usual hypochondriac self today, perusing the WebMD site for new information on my numerous symptoms, when I got caught up in a trail of articles on men‘s reproductive health.  That, in turn, led to an article that said there was a relationship between prostate cancer and masturbation!

Self DIS-service Checkout Kiosks

I just got back from a shopping trip to Wally-world, as my children call it, and one of the worst-ever check-out experiences that I've ever had.

Why I hate cable

For the eleventy-ninth time this week, I shut down my TV because I couldn't find anything on worth watching. Not unusual, I suppose, but it really irks me that I'm actually paying Comcast for the signal, and all I get on it is garbage!

A Voice In The Wilderness

I can identify with John the Baptist, especially when I (foolishly) talk politics with my extended family: I say what I want to say, they hear what they want to hear. Everybody gets their feelings hurt, or ulcers, or both.

Gasoline Prices

I just got back from filling my gas tank, and do you know, the price of gasoline is down by about a dollar from a week or two ago?