My daughter and I were mentioned in the March 2007 issue of Better Homes & Gardens. Except they got everything all wrong. They took information from the Dads & Daughter’s discussion group and contacted me. I let them use my name and quote me, even proofread the mention. Except they didn’t quote me. In fact, [...]

I got a book in the mail from St. Martin’s Press, since I was a contributor to the book. Totally Wired by Anastasia Goodstein. The thing is I have no idea what I contributed or if they even mentioned me by name. So I went to do a search … wait … where is the [...]

I Survived Lot 2111 We ate most of the jar we had of the lot recalled due to salmonella concerns. No one got sick. Someone give me a T-Shirt. Fussy Smoke Detector Our smoke detector must have been on union break the other day when we had a small stovetop fire — tons of smoke [...]

Drudge Report: HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF PLANET’ CANCELLED BECAUSE OF ICE STORM… SAVE IT FOR A SUNNY DAY: Maryville Univ. in St. Louis area cancelling screening of Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ because of a snowstorm… http://drudgereport.com/flash8.htm LMAO.

While horizontal this morning, I realized that I live in two modes. The first is one of striving and yearning for closure. The other is one of living, in contentment. The reward of work and the joy of home. I am not sure though if it is so much a differnetiation similar to Rinzai & [...]

Early this week, my car got stuck going into a space here at the complex. The plow guy barely passed through the middle of the lot ONCE in 36 hours of snowing and drifting, so there’s (still) a layer of packed snow and ice about 4 inches thick or more. Anyway, my back was already [...]

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