Candy was thrilled to get her car earlier than expected, since I got home on Saturday night instead of Sunday. (Sure, she claimed that she was happy to see me but I know the truth.) We waited until daylight to take this picture and you can still see that “FIAT Grin.” I had been calling […]
FIAT 500 Joins Our Family
A feisty yellow FIAT 500 Sport joined our family on Friday. 🙂 I picked it up from FIAT of Salt Lake City after an on-line chat with Shane revealed a car on their lot configured just like Candy and I had been prepared to special order. After a tough week at work, I had the “chore” of […]
Upbeat Prostate Cancer Info
We are all aware of breast cancer (who can escape the pink ribbons, pink grocery bags, etc?) but it is pretty easy to ignore prostate cancer. Perhaps this is a sign of better marketing by the breast cancer advocates. Perhaps we are more comfortable thinking about breasts than urinary tracts. Or perhaps we men are […]
Innovative Transportation Ideas
Gas prices jumped again: $3.89 today and I know that Missouri’s prices are lower than many. I should count myself lucky; I work from home so I burn a lot less gas than most of my friends. I struggle to hang onto that warm, fuzzy feeling when I fill up my plane, though. The last […]
Remember Modems?
Sometimes I forget how long I have been using a some nifty technology so the universe whacks me over the head with a clue stick and reminds me. Over the weekend, my younger son was building a file server out of an old PC that he found in the basement. Digging through the case, he […]
Supporting Journalism
Over the last week, I have had several people actually ask me why I have not been posting here much over the last several months. It was not until yesterday, when I bumped into a man who I had not seen in several years and he asked me about this blog, that I finally twigged […]
Stealth Elk
Who knew? Apparently there is another kind of elk, the Stealth Elk, which few people have heard of and fewer have seen. Not only is there still a small population in north America but some have even been imported to my home state of Missouri. And, for all you hunters out there, hunting them is […]
Delightful Dialog
This article is hard to write not because of any uncertainty about what I want to say but simply because I want to gently suggest an idea to you. I do not want to come across as a know-it-all and raise your defenses. Maybe I worry too much. I am quite sure that you are […]
Geezer Tech
The discussion on one of my favorite mailing lists has turned toward nostalgic reminisces of the golden days of technology, including antique floppy disks and RT-11 cheat sheets. Scott Adams then made my morning with this strip (and a very merry Christmas to you, Scott!): Since I can’t fight it, I might as well wallow […]
CIA WTF?!
From the it-makes-me-proud-to-be-a-taxpayer department comes the news, reported by the Washington Post, that the CIA has launched a task force to asses the impact of the WikiLeaks exposure of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables. And the name of the task force (drum roll, please) is: WikiLeaks Task Force! Yup, you read it right: […]
Google’s eBookstore: Yay! eBook Licenses: Boo!
Google’s new eBookstore is open for business, selling over three million books. This is great news. I like books and I like technology and I like competition. I particularly like the partnership which Google has forged with local bricks and mortar bookstores, allowing the stores to sell ebooks through their own web sites. I will […]
Jingle Bell Run 5K
I ran my second 5K this morning, the Jingle Bell Run to benefit the Arthritis Foundation. I signed up for the race with two goals in mind: I wanted to raise over $1,000 for the Arthritis Foundation and I wanted to better my 5K time from the first race that I ran in October. Kudos […]
Help Needed for the Arthritis Foundation
Do you know anybody who has arthritis? I thought so. Me too. I need your help. I am dressing up in green & red, tying bells on my shoes, running the Jingle Bell 5K tomorrow morning, November 21, to support the Arthritis Foundation. So far there are 17 of us the the Cheerful Curmudgeons team. […]
That Comfy Small Town Feeling
I remember how nice it was, after I moved from Chicago to Valparaiso, IN, that I could tell someone my name and he knew where I lived. It was a small town. We all knew where pretty much everybody lived. One time, just to see what would happen, I sent a letter to my step-father […]
B-25 Pumpkin Drop / Bombing Run
Great fun was to be had at St. Charles Flying Service’s second annual pumpkin drop at St. Charles County Smartt Airport this afternoon. The festivities were opened with a cluster bombing run by “Show Me”, the B-25 based on the field. I did take my shot at the target but, as expected, found that a […]
Software Jobs
By day, I own a software company and occasionally write software. Wally, Dilbert’s friend, reveals all about my job in today’s strip. Click the image to read the whole comic. The disturbing question is: Which job do I hold???
Running #7, My First 5K
I just completed my first 5K race, the Cottleville Fall Run! I left the house with a simple goal: finish the race. From the practicing that I have been doing, I figured that it would take me around 40 minutes, not stellar but I would not be hauling my sorry *ss over the finish line […]
Running #6, Goal Achieved
I achieved my goal this morning and ran (more than) 30 minutes without a break! I would have run 40 but my left calf was tightening up. I didn’t want it to cramp so I quit running after about 37 minutes and walked home. I’ll try again on Tuesday morning. My next goal is to […]
Running #5, A Day of Surprises
It does not seem like a month since I started running but, sure enough, I wrote Now I’m a Runner back on July 20. This week I am up to running five minutes then walking five minutes (repeated three times, for a total of 30 minutes). A month ago, I could not have run for […]
Out of fashion: Green lawns
If you have a lawn, check out Out of fashion: Green lawns at USA Today.
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