Gerald Ford

Former President, Gerald Ford passed away earlier this week. Today is a private funeral for the family, then there will be “public” funerals later on.

What I find incredible is that at 3:30 eastern today, news stations interrupted regular programming to show the “private” funeral – at least the arrival of the family, etc.

Why can’t the [...]

The strangest things we remember

When I was growing up, I used to watch the cartoon “Dungeons Dragons”. I had never heard of the game, but I remember really liking the cartoon. After it went off the air in 1985, I actually forgot about that cartoon.

In the 1990′s I was introduced to the game by some friends. [...]

Best laid plans

Why is it that everytime I make plans to meet up with my old friends, something comes up?

Tomorrow night, some friends of mine are having a holiday party to which I was invited. I had replied that I would go – I figured it would be a good study break. That was last week.

Yesterday, [...]

A Green Christmas

Well, so much for having a white Christmas this year. Although, there was a bit of frost this morning, there’s no snow – not yet anyway. It never feels like Christmas to me without snow. The weather forecasters are saying that we are supposed to get some snow tonight/tomorrow morning. Still, it [...]

Where’s the snow?

I’m a traditionalist when it comes to the holidays – I want snow for this holiday season! It’s just not the same without the snow. It has been so warm (40-50′s) and rainy – that I have found it hard to be in the mood for the holidays.

No, I don’t want as much snow [...]

Electronic billboards

For years the billboards alongside the roads were ordinary signs advertising just about anything. Then came the “flip” billboard – the ones that could support 3 different signs and would just rotate panels on the billboard to change them from one sign to the next. Now they have completely electronic billboards. I saw [...]

I joined the 21st century

Well, I did it – I finally got high-speed internet at home. I had been using dial-up since I’m not home that often. However, there are more and more things that I want to do on the internet that are rather annoying at the slow speeds of dial-up. It finally got to the [...]

Last day of class!

Today was the last day of the new laptop class that I have been teaching. The next class will start in January sometime. Boy am I glad about this break! I am so looking forward to having a little bit of time off from work. I’ll be busy studying for school, but [...]

Stay Away Hotel

With my job I travel a lot, so I normally stay in a hotel in the city that I need to travel to. For most of 2006 I have been in Cincinnati Ohio and have stayed at the Homestead Studio Suites hotel in Blue Ash. This is a hotel that I will NEVER stay [...]

Have you ever noticed….

When your sitting in traffic with your turn signal on, and the vehicles in front and behind you also have their turn signals on that none of the 3 will blink at the same rate as one of the others? They all blink at different rates.

I have no idea why that dawned on me today [...]