Our economy is in the toilet! Soup lines are longer than in 1933! Everyone is losing their homes, cars and jobs! There’s no money left for bread and milk! What a bunch of hooey! Apple brought out a new gadget Friday, July 11th. People started lining up for the new iPhone the night before. Lines […]
Friday dawned a nice day. I decided to drive my handy John Deere out to get the morning paper. It’s about 100 feet from the garage door to the mailbox. As soon as I took the paper from the box, my John Deere quit running. Oops, out of gas. I’m in my pajamas and robe, […]
Our economy is in the toilet! Soup lines are longer than in 1933! Everyone is losing their homes, cars and jobs! There’s no money left for bread and milk! What a bunch of hooey! Apple brought out a new gadget Friday, July 11th. People started lining up for the new iPhone the night before. Lines […]
In March, I traded my mini-van for a Ford Edge. An Edge is a lot shorter than a mini-van. It also has fewer conveniences like a remote to open the back gate. Odd how we can get used to automatic things when we got by for years with manual things. Anyway, a couple things on […]
Lots of on-line match-making outfits are advertising on the tube these days. It got me to thinking about what things would have been like if Hazel and I had met on the internet (I still refuse to capitalize internet.) in 1943. Would she text ‘I like Polka dancing.? If so, I’d answer, ‘I hate Polkas.? […]
In March, I traded my mini-van for a Ford Edge. An Edge is a lot shorter than a mini-van. It also has fewer conveniences like a remote to open the back gate. Odd how we can get used to automatic things when we got by for years with manual things. Anyway, a couple things on […]
Maybe it’s Mother’s Day. Maybe it’s graduation time. Maybe it’s Memorial Day. Whatever, something about this month makes me have some more serious thoughts. I’m reminded of a quotation and poem I’ve put in Jottings columns in years past. First the quotation: Take a bucket and fill it with water, Put your hand in it, […]
It seems to this English-speaking American that automatic answering devices should, by law, be required to say: ‘Touch one for other than English.? Either that or require companies using such requests to do so in person so we can tell them what we think of their service. ? Daughter Susan asked if I wanted to […]
It seems to this English-speaking American that automatic answering devices should, by law, be required to say: ‘Touch one for other than English.? Either that or require companies using such requests to do so in person so we can tell them what we think of their service. ? Daughter Susan asked if I wanted to […]
Adage of yore: ‘A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still.? In 2008 Barack Hussein Obama released a short form certificate of his birth in 1961. Following Donald Trump’s loud demand, ‘I want to see Obama’s birth certificate!? President Obama sent his personal counsel Judith Corley to Hawaii to get certified […]