Wow! I just realized that it's been over a year since I posted anything at LJ.

Well, now I have! ;)

The clock radio had the only clock that I bothered to reset over the weekend. I mentally adjusted the time all day Sunday; finally resolving to end my procrastination as soon as I woke up Monday. Monday came rolling around but I didn't feel like rolling out of bed right away. Running through an inventory of all the equipment I have that would need ( Read more... )

Saw several commercials on TV today before I realized that nobody approved them!

Some Tea Party members need to be decaffeinated.

A lot of politicians who got elected on Tuesday were the ones who kept saying that they wanted to "take this country back!" The only question remaining now is ... what century do they want to take it back to?

I think I liked it better when it didn't get dark until after 10P.M.

For a number of reasons not worth rehashing here, I decided to take a short hiatus from LJ. Weeks turned into months. You know how that goes ( Read more... )

May you all have a pleasant, prosperous, and peaceful new year and new decade!

Hundreds of thousands of people who have no other source of health care are being removed from Medicaid rolls because states don't have revenues to support the programs ( Read more... )

A scrolling sign at the convenience store ( Read more... )

Sometimes, we don't take enough care when reading things. We skim through some text only fo find out later that we misread a word or juxtaposed letters. That happened to me with the TV listings. I was quickly scanning through the new programs a few seasons back and passed over a show that I thought was called "Law and Order: SUV" . I never ( Read more... )

By this time, just about all of us have seen the video of President Obama swatting a fly during a White House interview with CNBC reporter John Harwood, last week. After seeing it repeated several times on news programs and late night talk shows; it occurred to me that something seemed strange about it ( Read more... )