The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio.
Meijer no longer stocks Gynol II, the contraceptive jelly, California Girl uses with her diaphragm. We called drugstore after drugstore and couldn’t find any place that carried it. We’ve ordered some on the internet; but it won’t be here before the middle of next week at the earliest. It looks like the tube has 2-3 [...]
Things (both good and bad) always seem to happen in threes. So when our hard drive went bad, and then less than a week later our video card burned out, we were wondering what would be next. Unfortunately, that question was answered on Saturday. The replacement video card that I ordered from Amazon was DOA. [...]
The calendar says it’s Tuesday but today really seemed like a Monday. Our refrigerator picked today when its 100-degrees outside to drop dead. Of course, both the refrigerator and freezer compartments were too warm to stop food from spoiling by the time that I got home and could (potentially) identify the problem. So, we’ve got [...]
A good day is when you come home from work and your daughter is home for college and lying out by the pool as if she had never been gone. A not so good day is when you’re sparring and you don’t notice that you forgot to put in your mouth guard until your opponent [...]
That’s how The Girl suggested we categorize the car problems we had on Friday evening. First, the car that she usually drives wouldn’t shift out of park. The brake shift interlock has “stuck” in the past; but, yesterday, it wouldn’t budge. So, she used the car that California Girl usually drives for errands. I peeled [...]
With record high temperatures in yesterday’s forecast, I thought that it would be a good day to do some of the chores that I had been postponed until warmer/better weather. Unfortunately, Sunday turned out to be one those days where things just gets worse and worse. First, we discovered that the air conditioner to our [...]
I’ve been considering how to dispose of the USB TV tuner I have since it doesn’t work with Windows 7. I hate to get rid of it since it was a Christmas gift from California Girl; but, the company that manufactured it got purchased by a competitor and now there isn’t even a “Windows 7 [...]
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 [...]
