Living in a coastal area that tends to be hurricane prone, events like Hurricane Earl always stir up lots of activity. Everyone refers to the storm by it’s second name, as in “Earl,” not “Hurricane Earl.” and it sounds like they’re referring to a person: “Where’s Earl?” “Reckon Earl will get here before tonight?” “I [...]

Staying in a motel, the alarm clock in the neighboring room goes off. There is no one in the room and it doesn’t turn itself off, even hours later. At first it irritates me but after awhile it disappears into the background and I only occasionally even notice it. I’m able to go about my [...]

I’ve been trying to convince my wife that it is “legitimate” to use the word “cool” with a “k” instead of a “c,” especially using social media like Twitter. She’s not buying it. I told her that it makes her appear “with it,” “young” and “fun.” “Why do I have to convince people that I’m [...]

Funny, when you don’t have time to do anything is when you most need to do something. Updating to the newest version of WordPress yesterday, I did the unforgivable — I didn’t take the five minutes necessary to back up my blog. I was in a hurry and even did the update as an after [...]

Technical glitch! Blog crashed and burned, consumed everything. I’ll need to rebuild it all so please bear with me.