Month: March 2012

My body pulled a shitload of hurt on me last night, enough so that I had to concede today and call out.  It’s now nearly 11pm and I’m thinking I am going to probably do the same tomorrow.  My knees were giving me hell all night – so was my right arm. Did I mention…

We are a society that worships heroes.  Trouble is that somewhere along the way, our concept of heroes redefined the term from people who do amazing things to help their fellow man, to the men and women whose amazing things are limited to throwing a ball through a hoop, or performing stupid and irresponsible behaviors…

It took calling in favors from several fronts, but I have rearranged a bit to get to work for at least the next few days.  The older daughter’s boyfriend, the mechanically-inclined one, says he thinks the car can be made to roll again with a fairly low amount of cash out of pocket.  I’m counting…

Ye olde car, she is an ex-car, finally went tits-up once and for all.  The daughter’s boyfriend has a free towing service, fortunately, to bring her here so I at least don’t have to pay an abandoned vehicle fee.  ‘Cuz she croaked mid-street.  Daughter unit was en route to a doctor’s appointment and managed to…

Now and then we are reminded of how extraordinarily fortunate we are.  In my case, I am employed and my children are alive and relatively well, as are my grandchildren.  I have a roof over my head and food to eat.  Literally too much food. I take for granted such fundamental things as safety.  Yes,…