For a second year in a row, I have the ultimate power over what you are going to hear on the radio!  There is nothing you puny mortals can do, as I wield all the power!  Mwuhahahahaha (Hack-coff-hack). Sorry, the power got to me for a second. But yes, for the second year in a row, I am an Arbitron kid!  I get to fill out the survey for a week, and for keeping track of all I listen to I get a whopping $3!!!!! I guess I will do it just so I can plug my favorite shows. ...

With Kudos to Adventure Dude who is going through a sort of crises because he is wanted, I bring you my Phobia blog! AD has more hangups than I about giving, but I hope he does decide to.  For while I don't see blood as the Generational marker he does, I share his phobia to needles. Not fear.  Not aversion. Not disdain. Not dislike. Phobia.  Phobias are irrational fears that are not supported by rational thought.  Indeed, that is exactly what they are.  I ha...

My Wife and I have cats.  Several Cats.  And as cats are wont to do (those of the inside out nature), they wander around the neighborhood.  But most of them are so skittish of strangers (they still think my son is a stranger - and it has been what?  3 years now?), that we dont worry about them.  They never wander far, and they have collars in case they do. The oldest cat is my Wife's favorite.  He likes to wander for days, only stopping by for meals.  She wo...

OK, for some of us we have been "riding the rails" around the eastern part of this nation.  How?  By Following Waldo Mason's blog!  He now has a laptop, and it seems the truck stops have gone 21st century! So he is able to post reports all up and down the eastern part of the US.  From Texas to Wisconsin, South Carolina to Florida.  And it has been fun as he winds his way across these states to read of the faces and places he has seen. So now we get to play Where is Wa...

It seems that the FEC has stepped up to the plate and done the right thing. As much as it could that is. The ruling has long been anticipated, and in some corners dreaded, on how McCain-Feingold would impact bloggers during election periods. The FEC's final Internet regulations adopted on Monday are less onerous than an earlier version. Here's what they say: • Paid political advertising appearing on someone else's Web site would have to be reported, regardless of how little or how m...

I have had the enjoyable task of listening to a couple of our Joe Users and their music output.  Let me preface this with the statement that I love music (Wagner best, but R&R as well), but cant play a note!  But I know what I like when I hear it (as Charles Emerson Winchester said - "I can play the notes, but you make the music!"). And now I know why the current American Pop scene disappoints me so much!  It is garbage!  Barely intelligible screeching by a bunch of ov...

Ok, during GalIICiv, I posted to the forums and now it appears twice in the forum list.  With the same AID. But yesterday, I posted regular, and now it is showing double, with the same AID! 108830. I only got Lasik 18 months ago!  Dont tell me I am seeing double!  please! Just an FYI for the less hysterical among us.

The summer. Yea, I remember it. I guess it was about 84. No 83. I remember now for another reason. My ex and I had bought a time share at a camping resort. I never liked it, but she insisted (she got it too). This year, we were new parents (so how I remember the summer). And my mother and my youngest 3 siblings came with us. Youngest! Tova and others are talking about the sexuality of their children, but my sister was 15 and I don’t know if sexually active (I have never asked and am not goin...

Ok, if the title got you, I appologize! But Trudy made me do it, But! LOL No seriously, she wanted to know how I went to 4 proms without going to one before I was a Junior in High School. So I will tell you. Growing up, I was the pimply faced nothing! I never had a real girl friend until my Junior year. I was that pathetic! But in order to hide my embarrasment and shortcomings, I was very involved with extracurricular activities. But in my Junior year, I had a girl friend! Her name was...

I remember when politics did not define your friends.  It was not that long ago.  I was dating a very sexy and wonderful dyed in the wool liberal!  She was fun! But that seems to have changed with the polarization that has been forced upon us by those who refuse to acknowledge the constitution of the United States, and its election laws defined therein. Now, we must cling to our political leaning buddies like the Ants in Ice-9 (and that is distasteful to write if you have re...

Well, yesterday was a mile stone of sorts for my blood donation.  It represented my 13th gallon (official) since I have been donating.  I was a bit concerned that I would get a ditzy phlebotomist that woudl blow out my vein, but I was lucky.  The only problem was computer related (of course since that is my vocation!),and they cleared that up in about 10 minutes. Last month, they had a get together for all their "century" donors.  I was unable to attend since I was in Cali...

I saw death this past week.  Just briefly. He visited a friend.  A friend who welcomed him with open arms.  A friend who had lived a very good life, but at the end, was tired.  And sad.  Sad that he had cheated death long after all his friends had embraced the grim reaper. But it was not the grim reaper that came, but a welcome friend.  The last one he knew.  His life had been full, yet now it was empty.  All the people he had known were gone.  The...

It has been a while since I posted anything other than a quick outrage at some insanity going on in the world.  That is not really bad.  I have had precious little time to read or post lately.  Not all due to work.  A lot of it due to personal life (as in it has been full). In the last 6 months, it seems I have lived a life time.  My mother was diagnosed with cancer, had a pneumonectomy, and is now doing very well.  Work has increased to the point that 60 hour ...

I recently had the opportunity to take my mother computer shopping. Now for those who know me, don't faint! Yes, my mother now has a computer! For those who don't know, my mother is soon to be 75. She spent her entire career working on big iron! But in her retirement, she has refused to have one! Just plain refused. Until now. While visiting with her, she found an Ad for a laptop at Office Depot. $329! Now that is a damn good price! So I took her to get it. We got there, and were looking f...

How many times have I written that on this site?  I really dont know, and in the end, it really does not matter.  Doctors make mistakes.  Doctors Don't know everything!  Doctors are not Gods! But when the rubber hit the road, I was yelling "Why did not the doctors know!  They did all the tests!  What the hell were they thinking!  How could they be such fools!". Yea, I was mad, angry, upset, pissed off, and down right outraged!  It took we a...