We have been invited to dine with friends we haven’t seen for a couple years tomorrow. I told them we’d bring homemade salsa for the occassion, which excited them greatly. But when I go out to the Internet to find my favorite recipes, they’ve vanished! AAAARGH! There ought to be a law. So, I’m off [...]
Last night Kathy and I went to see Fools in Love at the park here in San Marcos. One of the local houses for people who weren’t able to function fully on their own was there for an outing. There was one of their number, a moderately overweight man wearing shorts, an unmatched shirt, and [...]
Back when computer games were still pretty much for the geeky set, there was a nifty game called (I think) Robot Wars. The premise was that you could outfit a robot with various weapons and drop it into an arena to do battle with other people’s bots. The catch was that you had to program [...]
My friend Mark Morgan has been after me for a while to publish a bit of my writing on his website. Yesterday I finally got around to it, and the response to the story on his site has been most gratifying. Thanks to all you readers for the kind words.
Our little Emily heads off to New York today to spend a month with Kathy’s parents. They live in Grand Island, a little island community just outside of Buffalo on the Niagra river. Emily has grandiose plans to camp, go to the falls, play with Socrates (Martha’s rabbit), visit lots of family, and buy a [...]
Kathy and I have been trying to catch up with Netflix over the weekend and last night. Here they are, from least to most enjoyable. The World Is Not Enough: lousy. Sometime between the last Bond and this one, Brosnin got really old looking. The classic Bond wit here evinces itself only as a series [...]
It’s a relatively rare thing that I pick up a book I’ve never heard of by an author I’ve never heard of and enjoy it immensely, but Cold Sassy Tree fits that description. (Well, strictly speaking, it doesn’t, since it was a tape of someone reading the book, and I saw that the Austin Lyric [...]
Or not. Having a hard time getting in that secret, special writing mood this week, hence the sporadic, infrequent, inconsistent, and otherwise irregular updates. In happy prayer-answered news, my techconsulting.com domain sold for enough money that we’ll likely be able to close on the new house shortly. Wish I had 10 more just like it! [...]
I’ve not posted much this week. I’m trying to get into the habit of swimming enough to do my health some good, which means that my little remaining free time is eroded further. Add that to the fact that I’m already drowning in activity, and I’m having a hard time keeping up. Plus, Deus Ex [...]
We spent the last of the Blockbuster coupons that came with our DVD player last night on Girl, Interrupted. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it too much, but was pleasantly surprised; it was an excellent film. A sort of more-hopeful girl-cast One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest featuring an Audrey Hepburn-looking Winona Ryder, it mixes [...]
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