February 27, 2010 – 1:13 pm
OK, I’ll sheepishly admit I have a Facebook account. For my money, FB is a 21st century AOL, slow, quirky, noisy, and spam-filled. A cacophonous virtual din. Still it’s used by millions of people who see some value. To them, rock on and enjoy. Perhaps I’m too generationally challenged old to appreciate all the [...]
February 27, 2010 – 12:32 pm
My eldest granddaughter turns 18 on Feb 29th. There not being a Feb 29 this year, we observe her b-day near the end of the month.
This is no longer the little girl I took for her first ride on the merry-go-round1, or who helped Great Grandma Nelson “rearrange” her cupboards, or who, wearing a cute [...]
February 13, 2010 – 11:35 am
Does giving up watching the NASCAR Truck Race so one’s spouse can watch the Olympic opening ceremony count?1
If so, then I am truly a great catch. I suppose I still have to get a card and flowers. As though the Daytona 500 on Valentine’s Day isn’t enough.
-k-
UPDATE: The Truck race rained out, and [...]
January 29, 2010 – 9:44 pm
As we celebrate Kansas Day again, all the words to Home on the Range, the Kansas state song:
VERSE 1
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the sky is [...]
January 15, 2010 – 9:38 pm
The tbbs web provider, the excellent and highly recommended Delaware-based hosting.com, performed some database maintenance in the wee small dark hours earlier today.
In spite of my receiving 5+ emails from them about the scheduled maintenance, I neglected to read any of them until I received the dreaded Database Connection Error message multiple times [...]
January 8, 2010 – 8:46 pm
Following the Christmas Day Johnson-lighting horror, the TSA is pulling out all the stops to ensure our safety in the skies:
I applaud the efforts and vigilance of our public servants.
-k-
UPDATE: From what I’ve seen since, I think they aspire to be our pubic servants.
January 5, 2010 – 8:25 pm
Happy New Year, y’all. Today was my first day back at $DAYJOB, and I’d frankly be hard pressed to say that we haven’t been stuck with a used year. This could be the year that I define a new $DAYJOB metric, or maybe two. The first is $DAYJOB TDS1, and the second would be $DAYJOB [...]
December 20, 2009 – 1:05 pm
I’m cold, wet, and tired. Two hours on the handle of a snow shovel is not my idea of fun. The dig, traipse across the street, dump, repeat ritual behind the aught-one Saturn, combined with some Midwest-learned knowledge of “rocking” a car broke it free, and I was able to head around the corner [...]
December 19, 2009 – 8:09 pm
As in still snowing, and clear up to your ass.
Lucky me, I get to scoop a path across the deck seen in the picture a few posts back. The satellite dish is atop the shed; we’ve lost the signal. Being snowbound and teevee-less is an intolerable combination. A light brooming off of the dish should [...]
December 19, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Your forbearance is humbly requested, while I post yet another snow photo. This is a view out tbbs WorldHQ’s front door, which reveals my covered ‘01 Saturn. We think MLB’s ‘08 is under the pile mid-photo, and our neighbor’s VW is visible on the right.
There’s evidence there that a neighboorhood Good Samaritan, who presumably is [...]
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