Author Archives: BBRiley

The last thing I thought of when I first signed up for my first land line so many years ago were “robo” calls. I did not sign up for these intrusive calls from telemarketing companies (the civil name I use for such companies. You don’t want to know what I call them when they callContinue reading “Robo Becky”

Thanks to Facebook, I have been able to be in touch with people I haven’t seen in decades. I have been in conversation with former grade school classmates, relatives I haven’t talked to in years and have been able to follow some celebrities I thought I would never be in touch with. Who’d think theContinue reading “Unsocial Media”

I’m a do-it-yourself kind of guy and pretty handy with a wrench. Righty tighty, lefty loosie. What more do you need to know? I do have some experience to back that up. When I was in college, I was an auto mechanic for a couple of years. Job requirements were  the ability to push aContinue reading “Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosie”

I’m the guy who tries to find humor in the world around me. Unlike stand-up comics who pounce on any disaster and finish their joke with the line “too soon?”, I shy away from making fun of tragedy. I also avoid talking politics in this column. I do have an outlet for my political feelings,Continue reading “Shall Not Perish From The Earth.”

I’m hip to all the new technology we are living with these days (are the kids still saying “hip?”). I have an Apple iMac, an Apple laptop computer, iPad and an Apple iPhone. I lease space from the Apple cloud and have Apple music to listen to when I am trying to find out whyContinue reading “Let Me Ask My Watch”

Hey…I’m down here. I’ve decided to spend the rest of 2020 in my bunker. We have just under two weeks to go and I can’t take any more bad news. If I’m hiding in a concrete lined hole in the ground and can’t hear the bad news, then it must not have happened. I thinkContinue reading “From The Bunker”