When my grandson was born in January 2009, we clicked from the moment I held him in my arms at the hospital. He’s the most like me in appearance and temperament and many people...
Family
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Life Experience
Month: October 2014
Life Experience
Winter can get here in a hurry at the 45th parallel. Now that the World Series is over, the hockey and basketball seasons are in full swing and the weather is forecast to turn...
Life Experience
I was up at 7 AM today – taking out the trash. Not my favorite morning activity at the best of times, but today it seemed far worse stumbling about in the morning gloom....
Technology
Back in 2006 I had an old Dell Dimension 4100 desktop I wanted to refurbish and use in the basement. I didn’t want to spend $100 to upgrade the operating system from Windows ME...
Family
Tomorrow marks a special birth anniversary of a very special person. I won’t say how old Maria will be, but suffice it to say she’s had a long and eventful life. Hopefully many more...
Life Experience
In a couple of months I’ll be celebrating my 10th anniversary as a retiree. 10 years! In a couple more I’ll have been retired 1/3 as long as I worked. Maybe this would be...
Life Experience
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Technology
When we moved to the Valley in 2005 we got a new home and a set of 7 new appliances for it. 5 of these were Maytag, but the brand name doesn’t really matter....
Life Experience
A young soldier of the Argylls killed while standing on guard at one of our most sacred monuments. His killer – radicalized by a twisted view of a great faith tradition – shot dead...
Technology
Flight simulation still is a killer app for the game business. Train simulation came out later and always has been regarded as Flight’s ugly younger sibling. After all, most folks would rather soar through...
Technology
When I first got online in 1996 – using a 28.8 Kbit dial-up modem – the first serious thing I did was join an online discussion forum. Back then it cost so much to...