Rec’ing on…WNBA Fantasy Dinner Party
From time-to-time, when I see this or that WNBA person giving an interview, I’m struck by the thought that I might find …
Read more...Getting Busy
Sorry about the slowdown in entries. I’ve been focusing a lot on writing, both developing the new novel as well as punching …
Read more...Writer’s Blogk…Eye of the Reader
Being a writer-type person, I sing to the most under-appreciated cog in the machinations of writing: the reader. I’m not talking about …
Read more...IDs, Snits, and Eggplant
Some days get to be noteworthy just because of the amount of minutiae you have to deal with. It basically started with …
Read more...Rec’ing on…WNBA All-star Locale Argh
Here’s something I hadn’t noticed before. The 2006 season of the WNBA features the seventh All-star game (eight, if you include the …
Read more...Time Machine to…Jehanne d’Arc
Perhaps it comes from my Catholic upbringing, or perhaps it’s simply because this teenager is in that rare class of heroes who …
Read more...Little Girl Time
Three years ago I would never have imagined that I’d enjoy spending time with a youngling. I was never one to be …
Read more...2006 WNBA All-star Week Potpourri
As we head into the All-star break, a few comments about how things are going in this 10th season of the WNBA. …
Read more...The Shopping Chore
For decades my dad did all of the household shopping. He actually enjoyed doing it. In fact, he enjoyed it so much …
Read more...Four Years Late
North Korea. Nukes. Missiles. Good idea? No! Year? 2002. Solution? Invade Iraq! Huh? What? The choice for dealing with a Stalinist lunatic …
Read more...Festive Fourth
Pop! Boom! Pow! Screeeech! Such was the entertainment as I spent the July 4th evening with my family. There were plenty of …
Read more...NMSOaked
Tonight, most of my family and I went to see the NMSO at Balloon Fiesta Park. It was a concert on the …
Read more...Musing on…The U.S.A.’s 230th Birthday
People look at me strangely when I wish them a Happy Independence Day on July 2. John Adams, 230 years ago, was …
Read more...Legacy Software
Back in the dark times, before the Internet was publicly accessible, several other networks offered a variety of software. Almost all of …
Read more...Tbird In, Tbird Out
Email clients can be very personal things when you use them all the time. I’ve been using Eudora for a lot of …
Read more...Vacuum, Second Try
P icked up a new Shop-Vac® today. Now the adventure begins anew. I still have to assemble it, of course, and then …
Read more...Musing on…School Yearbooks
I recently read a comment by a teenager who said, “All you’re going to do with [a yearbook] is put it on the shelf and never really look at it.” I couldn’t help but smile at that. My own yearbooks have been so used that they are in danger of falling apart
Read more...One-way Dialogs
Being a writer, I write a lot (as you might well imagine). Not just on my projects, or web pages, but to …
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