Married In Ohio

When California Girl and I were returning from dinner tonight, I noticed that the road ahead was not as bright as it usually is. A quick inspection of the SUV when we got home confirmed my suspicion that one of my headlights was out. It was only a couple of months ago that the lamp [...]

I’m not sure how this week is going to turn out. I got stuck in the elevator before I even got to the office. (It stopped when it almost reached my floor; but the sensor thought it was between floors so the door wouldn’t open.) It’s a good thing that I am not claustrophobic. We’ve [...]

Our cable and Internet service went out on Monday afternoon. There were some relatively widespread outages in our service area; so, when we called it in, someone actually came out and worked on some of the equipment outside. Unfortunately he the cleared the outage without bothering to knock on the door and verify that the [...]

January Had an occasion to do the Snoopy Dance because of something that happened at work. Took a cool photograph of California Girl with the flowers she received at The Girl’s last senior night. We reviewed the proofs of The Girl’s senior photographs and made our selections. It was a bit discomforting how rapidly her [...]

Its only Tuesday, the second day of my vacation, and I’ve already received several “urgent” emails and text messages from work. I am amazed at the impudence of some people. Except for a few days at Thanksgiving, our kids haven’t been home in four months. I wonder how they would be if their kids were [...]

One of the things that I don’t like about having a smart phone is that the weather widget in the status bar is a constant reminder of how cold it is outside. I don’t mind that its 12 degrees with a wind chill of 5 degrees below zero outside. But I don’t like the red [...]

Last Saturday, I posted about having a productive day and how that’s both good and bad. The past few days have been more of the same.  We ate much too much at my mom’s house on Thursday. That’s good and bad for obvious reasons. Even though Saturday is typically our off day, we’re going to [...]

Today was a productive day, which, for a Saturday in November, is both good and bad. The replacement part arrived on Friday so I fixed the turn signal switch on the car that The Girl usually drives. Good that its fixed; but bad that I spent much of the morning upside down underneath the dash [...]

For the third time in four years, my sports watch was stolen from the locker room at work. It’s “my fault” for not making sure it was locked up; but one wouldn’t think that that they would have to go to such lengths to protect such an inexpensive item from their co-workers. I can “understand” [...]

I had to replace a burned out headlight on our SUV on Monday when I got home from work. Amazingly, in order to reach the bulb, you have to take off the wheel and remove the fender liner. For a light bulb! And that’s the “easy way”. The “official” procedure is to remove the front [...]