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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”

The other day I had a discussion with a friend of mine about the pandemic and wearing masks. Without a twitch he said that the pandemic was no big deal and masks don’t work anyway. Being the calm cool collected guy I am, I retorted, “Na ha!” He really got me flustered, which is veryContinue reading “So’s Your Old Man”

Life was so much simpler in the good old days. When I say, “good old days,” I mean those days when I had only three networks on my TV and my watching schedule was very rigid. Was it always entertaining? Looking at what is offered on television now, it may have been. Back then thereContinue reading “Television Watching”

When I was a small child I wanted a pet just like any other kid…until I was attacked and bitten by our neighbor’s dog. What prompted this animal to charge me and clamp on my butt (yes, just like in the cartoons…I hear you giggling) was beyond me. I was in our yard minding myContinue reading “Raining Cats and Dogs”

I know that winter is just around the corner but that is not going to stop me from sharing my thoughts on grilling. For all those folks bundled up against the cold, east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, I live in Southern California and, yes, I can grill all year long. It’s just like golfing,Continue reading “Taking A Grilling”

Every superhero has their lair where they can escape the pressures of doing their daily duties of saving the world from evil aliens while destroying large swathes of major cities (New York never does well in these scenarios. Surprised it still shows up on maps). Superman has his Fortress of Solitude. Batman heads down toContinue reading “Sanctuary”