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Election years always seem to bring out more pet peeves in me.  Probably because the annoyances and reminders are everywhere.  For instance, all those signs poking up everywhere ‘vote for this guy’ or whatever create a sea of plastic and print.  How hideous.  It’s not even like you can read 2″ print at 60mph […]

The price of gas here in my town has gone up 30 cents in the last 4 days, currently at $3.75 for a gallon of regular! Now I don’t profess to know what’s behind the spike in gas prices but I know it’s been steadily climbing for way to long and it’s getting beyond […]

Finally awake at a normal hour, working away and making some progress, it all came to a halt when the lights went out.  So there I sat with no TV (how tragic!), no computer, no lights, nothing.  My office is in the basement, so it was a whole new kind of dark at my desk.  […]

In the last week or so I’ve gotten a couple of zaps from one or two people here and elsewhere. I love comments and feedback, but instead of things like “i disagree” (when I’ve written a post containing fact) or “waste of time” to a list of links to money making sites , it […]

So I’m sitting at my computer in the dark of night and all through the house, not a creature was stirring… except, what is that scratching noise from the floor? Yup, heard some scratching and rattling of wires. Checked it out and saw nothing. Several times it happened again, several times found […]

I logged into statcounter excited and anxiously looking forward to the spike in my bar graph because I know I’ve had a substantial increase in traffic today. Unfortunately, it seems as though during some of my tweaking to the template this morning, I boogered up the code and nothing got counted all day. […]

There’s a neat story on FoxNews about a Wisconsin lawmaker who wants to rename the evergreen tree in the capitol, which was called a Christmas Tree until 1985 when Political Correctness took over and it got renamed a ‘holiday tree.’  He wants it to once again be called a Christmas Tree.
Of course there’s controversy.  Some […]