Cathy Seipp, a conservative journalist and blogger, died a week ago after a long battle with Cancer.  She left behind a loving daughter, Maia.  She was a conservative to the core, and had no problems with her political viewpoints. But someone did.  Someone, who decided that she - and her daughter - had slighted him, hounded her not only in her life, but even to her death bed.  With a hate and vitriol that defies logic, but is too often seen in the political arena.  Wi...

I use to pull all nighters with regularity back in the day.  My first was in high school for a lock in, and then many during college.  Once I put away my irresponsible days, I put away all nighters as well.....NOT. For several reasons, I have done all nighters from the time I graduated from College, to but a handful of years ago (the former being BC - before personal Computers - the latter being APP - After Prom Parties).  But in all cases, either due to lack of access or the f...

I know a man.  Man.  Kind of funny to refer to a person whose diapers I changed, but then he is a man.  Now almost 36.  A father - a good father to a wonderful little girl.  Whose name, like so many in his family, bears the surname of his grandfather.  Who had no sons.  So his name could not be brought forward under his lineage.  Yet of his grandchildren, and children, at least 5 bear his surname now.  Girls and boys.  It is like Chris.  In ...

For the 4th year now, I had the privilege of working on a worthy fund raiser.  For those not aware, or new to JU, my wife's nephew was killed in an Auto Accident 14 years ago.  It really devastated her sister and brother-in-law.  But instead of letting it ruin their life, and that of their other children, they made something positive about it.  R was about to go to college on a scholarship.  But died before be could attend.  So in his memory, each year on the last S...

I joined JU because of the debates. I stayed because of the community. It was fun getting to know certain people, and then interacting with them. I read the ToU and understood that as long as I did not get nasty with my fellow citizens, I could post anything to my blog that I wanted. JU being wonky, sometimes things that I did not want to share were shared briefly, and somethings I did not want to go into the forums did. Brad and Zoomba have as much admitted that there are problems there. As...

Well, I have been back almost a week now, and other than some humorous articles, I have not had time to post anything. Why?  Is it because I am abandoning JU?  Is it because I am so mellow from 75-80 degree temps (and smirking as my in-laws shivered in the 'cold')?  Is it because I am bereft of ideas? Well, the latter might be true.  But the real reason is those damn clowns in DC!  "Oh Let's save some money and change DST!".  Yea right!  My mother always use...

In a day, I am going to leave this freezer, for climates more suitable for living.  Southern California.  Where the highs this time of year are in the 60s and 70s (mostly the latter), and the lows a balmy 50 or so.  And the sun always shines!  Yes, paradise in Ferbruary! Once there, I shed my long sleeves, long pants and shoes!  And spend 10 days in shorts, short sleeves and bare feet!  As this has been happening about 4 years now, my wife's family has created a ...

Can I make a suggestion?  I know this constant logging in is a pain, and you are working on the Super Secret Squirrell formula for JU. But in the interim, when we have to log in after clicking a link, can you throw us back to the page we were linking to instead of the home page? I KNOW Zoomba can do that in his sleep!  Just a suggestion for you guys in the pits from us that are out on the peripheral, still trying to find "The Second Foundation".

I became eligible to donate last Friday.  But I had to work late and Saturday as well.  And they do not have Sunday hours.  As I am tutoring a boy (my wife volunteered and then sucked me into doing it when her boss laid off everyone else) in school, after work is not really an option except of Fridays (hi Marcie and Rose!  They don't give homework on Fridays here!).  So between last Friday and today (they did not call last Friday - I got a holiday!!!!), they called ...

Shades of DynaMaso!  Yes, today was spent trying to piece together a broken story of a dead hard drive at work!  No warning, just bleeh!  And all my settings went to the dogs!  Fortunately not a lot of data was lost.  Just some archived email messages (with "The Captain" gone, I will probably not need them), my favorites (now that really hurt!) cookies, and Arrrgggggg!!!!!! The damn time sheets and evaluations of my direct reports! (Fortunately, the HR have them, but ...

Seriously.  They cost what, a few bucks?  And they fail almost without fail!  So what are they good for?  Take them down and they die! I was listening to one of the fill ins on a talk show and he was ranting about them.  A caller said the reason is that the leads are cheap (ok, so are the lights) and that the reason they fail is they corrode so fast.  Given how many we replaced this year, and how many failed, I think he is right.  These Christmas lights are ...

Yea, we were crowing back in aught 3 when Isabel tore us a new one and we lost power for 10 days.  While our neighbors took cold showers, we had hot ones.  But with the run up in gas prices (both liquid and gaseous ones), it has not been cheap.  Right now we are paying around $3/gal for propane.  But as it was only 2 of us, no big deal. Until today.  Our hot water heater died.  They do that.  So you spend a few bucks and get a new one.  Or you get a tan...

My wife is on a crusade. To get us in the Tachy Light Show of Richmond.  Not all at once, but each year we add some more, and some more.  I figure next year we will qualify!  But it takes a long time to put up 20k lights!  So when it comes to taking them down, I am a charter member of the Procrastinators club. Fortunately, Aunt Ginny has bestowed on their lowly serfs a 4 day weekend in the middle of January.  We not only get MLK day off, but a thing (that long predate...

Hey Admins.  JU burped and posted an article before I was finished.  Now, I cannot edit or delete it.  Sure would be nice to be able to do either. I undersand about the Anon ban, but the handcuffs on the registered users? Oh Great Zoomba, hear my Plea!  And take pity on your poor lost soul! Amen.

Yea, I have been around.  Kind of.  Enough to read Kelly's Masterpiece!  And a couple of other entries.  But not much.  ANd not all (appologies to those I missed).  WHy? Well, some know that my son is here and my time with him is of premium importance (and for those keeping a stop watch, it is after midnight so stuff it).  But what none know, (well a couple) until now is my wife has been on a jihad to make 100 tamales!  It is the traditional food f...