Man, I feel old. My youngest sister — 15 years younger than me — just graduated from high school. Even though I missed the ceremony, I was able to make it for the family party.
So good news (her graudation) and bad news (Basette’s passing).
I’m in DC this week, so I won’t be posting much. I’ll be back home on the 18th.
The party was fun. I got to see a bunch of people I haven’t seen I a few months. You know when most of your friends have kids because they think 9:00 PM is late. Overall, a nice stress free evening at the party. Because I was at this party, I had to skip my…
I got a notice from classmates.com that I had a message waiting from Maria T, my best friend in high school and in middle school. She was the only person I was close to during those years. She married when I was a sophomore in college and joined the navy. I haven’t heard from her…
When I went out to the house over the Fourth of July weekend, I was met with a rather nasty set of surprises: Both of my back doors had been left unlocked, The air conditioning unit was not working, and The pond looked like nuclear pea soup (neither pond pump was working). The pond was…
Everyone has been hearing about hurricane Ike heading towards Texas and that all of the oil refineries will have to be shut down for a little while. Gas on the way to wokr this morning was 3.59. When I got off work, the gas stations said $4.09. My friend in Tennessee said that the gas…
A good friend of mine is trying to set up high speed internet access at her home. She lives out in the country, so her options are very limited. I told her about a friend of mine who uses Verizon’s wireless access vis PC card plugged into a wireless router. So my friend started exploring…
Well not so much. More like a scary outting in which my car dies on the Interstate and then miraculously works long enough to get off of an exit (road where I live) and park the car in a pharmacy parking lot. The car has been running a little higher RPM than normal, but the…