School Levies
I am the better part of 50 years old and have been voting since I was 18. In all of those years I have voted for every single school levy that has been on my ballot. For a good number of those years I didn’t even have children – or didn’t have children old enough [...]
My Nook Simple Touch Day Two
(Tech Support has advised me that my Nook is called a Nook Second Edition. It seems I’ve seen it referred to as an N2 in some of the forums.) You will recall from yesterday that I was having trouble with my Nook Simple Touch freezing. When I took the Nook home last night I had [...]
Posting from my smart phone
A short while back I picked up a smart phone. A Droid X that runs Google’s Android operating system. The phone has replaced my old phone and my Palm TX (which looked very sleek when I got it, And that is all that came through of a somewhat larger post. So, it appears there is [...]
Just Say No
I saw this at the Huffington Post: Jill Quigg, 35, of Quincy, who played the role of Dottie in the movie directed by Ben Affleck, was arrested Friday after police were called about a break-in at a Quincy apartment, according to police. The story goes on to explain how Quigg and an accomplice robbed [...]
The long, slow road to recovery
Well… there was a crash. And then a slow recovery. But, we’re almost back.
Continuing with the Jell-O Bath
You never realize just how little you know about Jell-O until you decide to fill a bathtub full of the stuff. Some of the things I had to consider when planning the Jell-O bath were: How many gallons of water did the typical early-80’s bathtub hold? At the time of the Jell-O bath experiment I [...]
Heath Care Reform
I spent a little bit of Monday poking around news sites. The Health Care Reform Bill hadn’t been signed by President Obama yet, but it was on the way to his desk. Comments I read, left by readers of the sites I was visiting, were mixed. On the pro-reform side you had people leaving this-is-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread [...]
Happy Holidays
Another Field Sobriety Test
As we continue with our story… The Cincinnati police officer came over and told me he was going to give me a field sobriety test. Even though I had just practiced for the UC cops I was a bit concerned. You never know how these things might go. The officer told me he wanted me [...]
The Cincinnati Police are Called In
To bring yourself up to speed, you’ll want to start a couple of posts ago with one called Stupid Things. Now that were all on the same page. Baby, if you’ve ever wondered … wondered, whatever became of me … I’m livin’ on the air in Cincinnati … "DON’T LIE TO ME!", the angry [...]
