I worked for a public utility for thirty one years, and many times that meant having to enter peoples back yards to access our facilities to make repairs. We had a name for this process... we called it rear property line... and we hated it. You never knew what was in the back yard, hiding just out…
The State of Us.
I sat on this for a few weeks, but it's time for a brand new rant about something unrelated to politics so here you go... One of the things that is difficult about winter, particularly when you're retired, is that there isn't the motivation to get out and go when the weather is bad.…
You Ate What?
We have become a society of needy incompetent adults, that will fight for the validity of every dumb idea that pops into our heads, and at the same time refuse responsibility for acting out on any of those ideas. Don't tell me how to live my life, but I'm holding you responsible for protecting me…
This Ain’t Us.
They should have named it a little more appropriately because all of us who have lost a love one could tell a story like this if we had a soundtrack playing in the background and we cut back and forth between the present and past memories. Listen, I know who the us is they are…
I Hate Ticks.
Alpha-gal. I know hate is such a strong word. One of my most distant memories that is food related is of eating a white castle and thinking that it was the greatest thing in the world. I could eat a million of them... except I couldn't... even as an adult I could only eat a…
Five Things I Learned From This Year’s State of the Union.
2017 was a pretty good year unless you were a big fan of the previous eight years. If so, I guess it sucked to be you... unless you have a 401k, or needed a job, and then you did pretty well for somebody as miserable as you make yourself out to be. I hate the…
My Case For Bringing Claymation Back
Last night, after Sheila called it a night, I turned the the lights down and thoroughly enjoyed a movie that I hadn't seen in decades... One of the Sinbad movies, I'm sorry but I'm not sure which one... maybe the seventh voyage one although I am not prepared to swear under oath. Wayne, that's one hell…
Rain
It could be the season. It could be the isolation caused by this wet, gloomy January day and the dreariness of it all. I don't know. Maybe you just can't be happy all the time, but whatever it is, today I am feeling my age. I am here, looking to the east, waiting for the…
The Wall
Something happened to Americans. Some say that we became soft, but I don't think so. I think that we have been lead astray. Was our will really that much stronger in the late seventeen hundreds? The vast majority of the population didn't even take part in the revolution. And what about the eighteen hundreds? Most…
10 Reasons a Televised Madden NFL Tournament Will Be Far More Entertaining Than Being At the Super Bowl.
You won't have to worry about your favorite player taking a knee before the kickoff. You might not have to watch Tom Brady. You might actually be able to enjoy a Steeler-Cowboy match up. If your beer tab is twenty-four dollars by halftime, you're definitely wearing some beer goggles. You won't have to worry about…
