Sears 'Warranty Service' is incompetent beyond belief. I have no water since yesterday; their brand equipment, installed them. Yesterday, Sears promised to show up today 8am-noon.Today, at 2pm,, I finally get an answer that they didn't have it on their schedule and they can't come until tomorrow afternoon. I stayed home from work for this crap?

I have extreme contempt for the owner of a Silver Toyota Avalon with MD plates 9DR-V50 purchased at R&H Toyota.

I generally don't indulge in literary criticism, but I've had the flu this week and have used the opportunity to catch up on some reading. Today I finished “Dune The Machine Crusade”, one of several thousand pages of an epic science fiction saga that takes place over several thousand years of human future. I have read eleven of the ( Read more... )

Like many of us on the web, I have used it to connect with people from my past; sometimes pleasantly, often neither pleasant or unpleasant, but never before this unpleasant.  I ran into the name of a classmate from high school (41 years ago).  So, as is my usual practice, unless the person was actively nasty to me back then, I offer friendship ( ( Read more... )

Somehow, it seems appropriate that on this 40th anniversary of the first moon landing trip, we hear of the death of Walter Cronkite.  Rest in peace and happy flight.
And that's the way it is...

This is most definitely a movie for those of us old enough to remember ( Read more... )

A FB friend (who also happens to be a relative I've only met recently) Post this not-so-little gem of understanding from one of the Harry Potter books.  I remember reading it myself some years back, but it is most definitely worth repeating.

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices." Albus Dumbledore

Funny story on one of my Linux websites


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Happy Father's Day to all those who are fathers, may want to be, or have/had a father ( Read more... )

I don't often recommend movies, but IMHO, this is special - Up! from Pixar. Yes, it is animated, yes it is 'G'. But, the difference is the telling of the tale - and this is classic in several ways.

Just a couple of notes for those of you who already seen it; Jeter would love to play with Doug and I'm now in the market for a green tennis ball.