It’s good, once in a while, just to be able to stop. — here I’m not all that bothered by small hypocrisies — it’s fun to rag on prominent folks for ‘em, but I’ve always liked the sentiment that “hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.” — there (in the comments) Happiness is [...]

Yesterday I brought home some of my mom’s stuff, including 15 photo albums and two boxes, one rather large, of loose photos. And that wasn’t even all of them. Mom loved her photos. Someone suggested to my brother that we “just throw away” most of the old pictures. Mom would have been horrified to hear [...]

I don’t feel comfortable sharing the important things going on in my life with strangers on the Internet. But I wouldn’t feel comfortable continuing here as if everything was the same. Why is the inevitable so hard? Sad, yes, but since it’s inevitable you’d think one could be at least a little bit prepared. But [...]

I probably will not post again until the New Year. A happy Christmas to all. Please come back and see me after the holidays.

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If I had been watching Hawaii Five-O I would certainly boycott it now. Nastygrams to CBS are highly encouraged.

The more important it is that the thing you’re working on turn out perfect the more likely it is that you will screw it up.

Could there be a more perfect name for a painter than Luke Painter? He does a lot of work in India ink. I really like his drawings, especially the houses. (via)

Leeann was talking about cussing in different accents and it reminded me that I have not yet mentioned my newest “vice”. No, not cussing in accents; I don’t do accents very well. My newest vice (It’s not really a vice but it’s more fun when I think of it that way.) is Top Gear on [...]

Here we are – less than two weeks away from Christmas and there are people out there still pondering what to buy for a person of the opposite sex, be they husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, or that co-worker you barely know whose name you drew this year. Well, you’re in luck; [...]

People You Didn’t Know Were in Star Trek – Actually, I did know. Except for the last one. Wow, seriously? Michele Made Me – Crafts using stuff found around the house. Unique Stress Busters – The virtual bubble wrap looks like fun. I also like the LED light show thing. Ooooo pretty lights. (One product [...]

Something like this had to happen sooner or later. On Tuesday of this week a cannonball shot by the Mythbusters went through a house and a minivan in a neighborhood near the Alameda County bomb range where they were filming. No one was hurt. I can hardly wait to see that episode. Number Two Son [...]

So true I might have said it myself: For many of us, our greatest pleasure is to pet our batiks, fondle our fabrics, and stroke our stash. That is from an email newsletter from eQuilter.com. I tried to find an online version of it but when you go to the Newsletters on the site you [...]

To the sports commentators on ESPN, NBC and Fox: Brett Favre is retired. Get over it already. Even I have moved on. Why can’t you? Why is it that the simplest things are often nearly impossible to find? I’m not doing very well with this whole holiday shopping thing this year. I have no ideas [...]

Lately I’m having a seriously hard time maintaining any interest at all in blogging, much less coming up with something interesting that someone might actually want to read. Oh, I do have things I want to say but I can’t get motivated to say them. But of course that’s why they invented embedding. So… see [...]

Should a kid make it to double digits without a scratch, you have to figure he’s spent the entire ten years in his room. Apparently some people think that’s a good idea — here …but what was Bill Mantlo subjected to if not rationing? And what were the faceless, implacable bureaucrats who decided his fate [...]

I am starting to get a bit annoyed at Harry’s Law. (NBC) I like the characters and enjoy watching them interact and the stories are often interesting but lately the crusade episodes are coming more and more often – episodes in which they use the criminal trial of the week to highlight some social “evil”. [...]