Osama Bin Laden couldn’t have done a better job of ruining this nation’s economic, political and moral standing in the world as the Republicans have done with Bush at the helm. Can we be sure that Republicans aren’t Al Qaeda in the
Published: Thursday, 15 May 2008 06:40 PM

We've heard of the Gas Tax Holiday, digging for oil in Alaska, stop filling up the Strategic Oil Reserve and there's just no relief in sight.                 
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 08:23 PM

I call 'em as I see 'em!  Hillary Clinton and John McCain have supported the 3 worse bills for the fortunes of the American people in the last 7and a half years, and people claim they have great experience. The vote to invade Iraq has be
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:59 PM

Tomorrow is my first weigh in after a week on Jenny Craig.  I had a great week and feel very good, so I'm excited to see the scale tomorrow.  I've been a Weight Watchers purist for years, but desperate times call for desperate
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 07:49 PM

Why?  Well......for starters, I got my American Idol tickets to see the top ten at Nassau Coliseum this summer.  Way excited to see David Cook, Brook White, David Archuleta and Michael Johns.  I only wish Amanda Overmeyer was going to
Published: Thursday, 15 May 2008 07:06 PM

Nor'Easter here today.  This means that whether it rains or not (rain is meaningless) there is a strong East wind that blows the water into the bays and causes very high tides.  Combine that with an astronomical high tide and we have a
Published: Monday, 12 May 2008 05:36 PM

I love that line...I just read it in my More magazine - you know the magazine for us 40+ ladies.  Hot Helen Mirren is on the cover, bustin out all over...I think it's a couple months old but that just goes to show you how up to date I am in
Published: Thursday, 15 May 2008 04:18 PM

Okay, it appears polka dots make me a little crazy.  I splurged on an Oscar De La Renta polka dot wrap dress to wear for my last day in front of a class "lecturing."  I'd been watching it on macys.com for a while and figured i
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:42 AM

What's that song?  I don't want to work, just wanna bang on the drum all day..."  That's how I feel this morning, despite leaving the house early to get ready for my LAST lecture of the semester!  Which is on conflict
Published: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 09:46 AM

Middle Son has been in New Orleans studying at Loyola University for four years and today he'll don his cap & gown (and bronze cum laude rope) and celebrate his graduation. While I've been here for the last month on assignment for ye olde
Published: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 02:03 PM

Sitting just outside the fence between two big 460s, watching Freddy load the dump trucks almost lovingly with the bucket and the thumb, first dropping the tangles of rebar and concrete into the big empty trailers then reaching in with the butt end o
Published: Friday, 25 April 2008 11:53 PM

I so haven't had anything to say since Ashley's funeral and haven't quite managed to make it home. I've been working very long hours on a special project (*ahem*) out of town (a few details here) since weekend before last. The fu
Published: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 02:45 PM

Well, 2 job interviews this week, and 2 rejections. And Ireally thought I had the 2nd job, which now leaves me with a nagging suspicion that somewhere in the back-ground process being conducted, either someone is say-ing negative things abo
Published: Saturday, 26 April 2008 05:15 PM

Listening to live peter gabriel, again!"The Rhythm Of The Heat" from 1982 andhis 1st WOMAD concert, with African percussionists, Stewart Copeland on drums, and an "on the money" full band,as the percussion takes the song into a tr
Published: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 08:41 PM

Finally got my fingers to type. My wife & I are celebrating our 7th year of marriage, and a total of 10years together. Playing outtakes from a soundtrack that peter gabriel did for the movie "Passion: The Last Temptation Of Christ"
Published: Sunday, 20 April 2008 04:40 PM

I don't think the Carpathia is going to come this time, Hillary. It's time to give it up and put your support behind Obama for the sake of party unity.
Published: Thursday, 15 May 2008 01:09 PM

I'm worn out from my "birthday visits" to several women, so today will be an odds and ends entry. It's cool and overcast here today, but I don't think it will rain. Perfect weather for me, as bright sunlight bothers my eyes. It
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:34 PM

I've not been having very good luck recently when it comes to shopping for books. I went into the bookstore yesterday looking for a few specific books. One of the books was the second of a Star Trek trilogy and had been recently released on the
Published: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 07:24 PM

 REJECTION SLIPS    As the Chinese say when they don't wish you well, "May you live in interesting times."Its been a Ying and Yang week but then again when has the month of May never surprised me. I got a clean bill
Published: Thursday, 15 May 2008 11:41 AM

SURREAL GOODBYEYou lay therestruggling for breath.The machine jerked your headwith each ration of precious oxygen.Your hand was clammy coldand there was only tensionas we, your brothers, watched.The hospital routine carried onoblivious to our persona
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:35 AM

 POOR SOULS    Saw a man yesterday while I was waiting for the ink supply place tp open that I knew from my morning coffees at the Howe Street Starbucks. He was in the first stages of Huntington's Chorea which is a cruel rapid
Published: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 09:31 AM

Because I'm too lazy to write a real entry, and I have a bunch of cemetery photos.
Published: Monday, 12 May 2008 10:48 PM

Today is the 4-year anniversary of my blog. I went diving back through its history to uncover some forgotten entries.
Published: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 04:08 PM

Some thoughts from a walk in a graveyard
Published: Monday, 12 May 2008 10:35 PM

You may have noticed I haven't updated my blog in a long time.
Published: Sunday, 30 March 2008 11:25 PM

I know this Christian guy who knows I'm an Atheist, yet he keeps sending me religious emails every week.
Published: Wednesday, 27 February 2008 03:03 PM

I have been reading that Second Life and virtual worlds are the future of the internet.
Published: Sunday, 17 February 2008 06:39 PM

I was going to stick a question mark on the end of this title, but - at least over the past decade - the parallels between Israeli policies and some of those of apartheid South Africa are clear.
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:03 PM

I guess US citizens shouldn't look at these.
Published: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 12:07 PM

450+ Real Ales, 140+ Foreign Beers, 160+ Cider/Perry, 45+ Wines - not to mention some excellent food. But still a bit sad.
Published: Sunday, 4 May 2008 02:03 PM

I put blog-type stuff on the back burner while I took care of the usual business I do every week and finished the electronic edits and revisions of my book.  I’m asking a couple more people if they will give me some input, plus reading it
Published: Wednesday, 7 May 2008 09:33 PM

You know how some time periods can seem a whole lot longer than others?  Especially if you’ve been transitioning from one very different thing to another.Yesterday was a staff development day.  First, my department assembled a potluck
Published: Saturday, 26 April 2008 06:11 PM

I just administered my last standardized test of the year, the ACT.  As you all know, I proctored six days of the state test, the CSAP, right before spring break.  We came back and gave the kids another week’s respite from bubbling, t
Published: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 05:14 PM

Say what?  That's the question that I kept asking myself today as I aerated my front lawn.  No, I didn't rent a fancy machine to do the dirty job.  I did it in the most manual of ways--by walking around and stabbing the ground
Published: Wednesday, 9 April 2008 07:56 PM

Ah, America...Home of the free, land of the brave.  Home to the stupid, conniving capitalist pigs who think they have a sense of entitlement to haggle in every store that they shop in!  Domain of the losers who hold up the checkou
Published: Saturday, 5 April 2008 08:39 PM

Today, as I watched the news coverage of Fidel Castro's stepping down, I heard yet another incredibly stupid Bushism:He stated that he hopes Castro's resignation will bring "fair and democratic" elections to Cuba instead of "st
Published: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:23 PM

Audrey and I ended up doing quite a few things today. One of them was visiting a famous cemetery in this area called Woodlawn Cemetery. The Wright Brothers are buried there, along with Paul Lawrence Dunbar, James Patterson (NCR), Charles Kettering,
Published: Saturday, 10 November 2007 08:05 PM

I have been tagged by dmarks to do this 7 random or weird things about me. There's a lot that I don't talk about (believe it or not) on this blog, or any place for that matter. My family and a few friends know more about me than I even do a
Published: Saturday, 10 November 2007 09:09 AM

I made these for my Mom and Dad's birthday party tomorrow.  The one on the left is for my Mom, the other is my Dad's. I also made a chocolate cake to take along!
Published: Friday, 26 October 2007 04:00 PM