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Originally I created this site to share my stories.  Some favorites are:

What's in a Name?  

Potato Chip Can

Enchanted Luncheon Meat

Lack of Pryor Restraint

My First Bra

Have a Glass of Fudge

Munchkin on Speed

The BMV 



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Starting to get the hang of it

Thursday, 15 March 2007 9:30 P GMT-05
I'm starting to figure out this new software.  The look will change a few times until I'm sure about it.  If you see something you like or don't like, let me know.  Right now I feel as though brown is appropriate, I don'

Sabata

Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:59 P GMT-05
"The piano may do for lovesick girls who lace themselves to skeletons and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils. But give me the banjo, when you want genuine music, music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your syst

That darn cat

Saturday, 2 December 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
My wife has been hinting for a long time that our daughter needed a pet. I am not an animal person. I can't stand dogs and barely tolerate cats. Lately the talk became serious about getting a cat so the wife looked on the internet and fo

The old old house

Saturday, 28 October 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
I wrote about someone taking my picture while I was doing yard work a while back.

Mike

Monday, 25 September 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
I have a friend at work that I've known (or thought I've known) for a very long time. I've written before how Mike was into astronomy and started taking photos of the sky. After seeing my blog he decided to create his own to share his pho

Emails and Comments

Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
Since I've returned to posting on this blog I've recieved a large number of emails and comments. It's time to answer a few. Many people have asked which of the kids I am in the picture in Moving Memories. I'm the eight year old boy sec

Poor Screech

Sunday, 18 June 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
I've been thinking about houses a lot lately. My father-in-law is moving and everywhere I look I see people losing their homes. These are tough times. I've been reading about people with adjustable rate mortgages in real trouble.&nb

25,000 Hits

Friday, 16 June 2006 10:45 P GMT-05
Back on September 19, 2005 I wrote that I had achieved 10,000 hits on this site. I'm proud to say that as of this posting I have achieved 25,000 hits.

Dunkin' Donuts Debacle

Thursday, 8 June 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
I love Dunkin' Donuts coffee. For the past twelve years I have gone there every working day and ordered exactly the same thing, an extra-large decaf with cream. Two out of seven times I get the wrong order. Last week I went th

Exciting News

Saturday, 11 March 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
OK, it's not that exciting. It's just that I finally got off my lazy butt and got my own domain name. You'd be amazed at how many people can't seem to find my blog. It seems that the - in blog-city overwhelmed them.To fix the proble

There's a moon in the sky called The Moon

Sunday, 12 February 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
A friend of mine from work takes great photographs of distant planets with his telescope and has sparked some interest in astronomy. I happened across Google Moon the other day and it's great. You can see in detail where the moon landings

Weekend of getting organized

Saturday, 11 February 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
I missed the Lucy Kaplansky concert,I had to work until the wee hours and couldn't get there. Management is tweaking my route and it's going to be a little while before the bugs are ironed out of it. If Tom is reading this; I'm sorry budd

Editing a life

Sunday, 5 February 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
The past two weeks have been spent immersing myself into the world of video editing. I've read every book, website, tutorial and listened to every podcast I could find. I became an expert at Microsoft Movie Maker and moved onto Adobe Prem

Underworld Evolution

Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
Finally had some time for the family, so we went out to the movies. I love Vampire/Werewolf/Zombie movies and Underworld Evolution (the sequel to Underworld) had two out of three. This movie was far more violent than the first one and it also had so

The Holidays

Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
December was a brutal month. I worked long hours and barely picked up my guitar, banjo or mandolin. What made it all worthwhile was family.Christmas was on a Sunday so for the first time in a long time I was able to spend Christmas Eve wi

Work Work Work..... Family

Saturday, 17 December 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
Due to the Christmas rush here at ETDS (also know as Peak) I've been leaving for work at eight in the morning and coming home after ten at night. I"m not complaining, the extra money is nice for the holidays and it will be over in another

When the Student is ready

Friday, 2 December 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
Today my daughter was working on the computer.  I walked by, grabbed the mouse and showed her how to do a small task.  I then cocked my head, puffed out my chest and said, "When the student is ready the teacher will appear."My dau

Firemen

Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
I love talking to firefighters. When they have to work it is intense and dangerous but they also have a lot of downtime, so they have time to think.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
I'm exhausted.  Winter hit hard in Sheffield Lake and I had to work twelve hours in it.  The wind came off the lake and talked to me.  By evening the snow was coming down so hard that it was hard to see and the roads were treacherous.  All in all

A Night of Extremes Part II

Monday, 21 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
After the Donovan concert I was beat complete. I had an hour and a half drive home and needed coffee. My buddy Tom told me there was a free concert for volunteers over at Kent Stage with The Dust Poets. I hadn't heard of them and after leaving

A Night of Extremes Part I

Sunday, 20 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
Saturday night the Donovan concert and my night to volunteer. I got there right on time and headed to the volunteer area. There were thirteen of us and most were in their mid-forties or older. We chatted and I got the impression that many were

My Life by Cartoon

Monday, 14 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
How does this cartoonist know me so well?

What'cha Reading Meme

Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
Saw this over on Decrepit Old Fool. It’s been making the rounds of my favorite blogs: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. D

A loving tribute or just plain creepy?

Sunday, 23 October 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
My wife likes to watch the tv show Family Plots.  On one of the shows they had a person after being cremated turned into a diamond.  That's right, they took the remains and a company called Lifegem took the cremated remains and turned them into a b

The Noguchi Filing System

Sunday, 16 October 2005 10:38 P GMT-05
Between genealogy, chess, work, computers and life I am being inundated with paper. My filing system is failing under the weight of it all so I'm trying The Noguchi Filing System. This Japanese filing system called the Noguchi Filing System is a