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Humor – Pass Weirds and PIN heads

Four times, I typed in my password and four times a message popped up on my computer screen telling me I was mistaken. How could that be? I’ve been to that particular website hundreds of times, but now, it was being obstinate. So was I. Each time I typed my password, I typed it more [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Humor – Why they put solitaire on computers

My productivity dropped like a laptop into the lake when I got my fancy, new PC. That’s partly because, for non-geeks like me, the only thing worse than a dead computer is the learning curve on a new one. Besides that, my new computer has a wide screen, covered with time-wasting temptations, like the news, [...]

May 7, 2013No CommentRead More

Humor – Making enemies with friendship bread

Against my better judgment, I recently found myself responsible for the care and feeding of a bowl of Friendship Bread Starter Dough. Looking back I can’t decide if it was more like having a pet, a baby, or a nuclear reactor in my kitchen. This dough was to be kept on the counter for 10 [...]

April 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Humor – Living with an insomniac

Do you live with a grump? A grouch? An ill-tempered crank? I can relate. Not to YOU! To the grumpy, grouchy, ill-tempered crank. While not all unpleasant people can blame their demeanor on sleep problems, I can. Or, at least, I do. Insomnia is a major cause of irritability and unfriendliness. In fact, a review [...]

February 19, 2013No CommentRead More

Humor – The Bird Whisperer

When I met Mr. Tweeters last summer, he was shy and a little depressed, a canary singing the blues. It was understandable; he was new to our home. Plus I think he was molting. That would depress me too. We set out to cheer him up. He’d come to us in a studio apartment of [...]

February 5, 2013No CommentRead More

Humor – Happy National Bicarbonate of Soda Day

It’s probably no coincidence that Dec. 21, the last day of the Mayan calendar, was also National Flashlight Day and Look on the Bright Side Day. The creators of those days were probably thinking, “Look on the bright side. If the sun doesn’t come up Dec. 21, at least we’ll have a flashlight.” It’s probably also no coincidence that December 21 was Humbug Day.

January 1, 2013No CommentRead More

Gaming – RAKS for the holiday season

Pretend you hear scary music while I tell this story. It might make it more interesting. Back when I was in high school, my sister and a friend borrowed the family car to go shopping in a town an hour away. We were heading home when the car broke down. We were miles from the nearest town and even farther from home. Night was coming and cell phones hadn’t been invented yet.

December 4, 2012No CommentRead More

Humor – Enough or too much?

Some people have a wealth of money; some have a wealth of knowledge. My family has a wealth of water bottles and coffee mugs, and we don’t even drink coffee, though we do drink water. One entire shelf in our kitchen is filled with water bottles. Another one is stacked with mugs on top of [...]

November 20, 2012No CommentRead More

Humor – What I meant to say

When you tell the waitress, “I’d like the salad,” don’t you really mean, “I’ll ORDER the salad. What I’d LIKE is a bacon double cheeseburger, french fries and a large chocolate shake.” Well, that’s what I mean. But if I said what I meant, it wouldn’t be too much later that I’d be saying, “I guess my eyes were bigger than my stomach,” and we both know I don’t really mean that.

November 6, 2012No CommentRead More

Humor – Still no dog in the house

In my courageous battle against the forces that would bring a dog into our home (my son), I have, at different times, agreed to three goldfish, two hamsters, and now, a canary. Some would call it compromise; I call it a slippery slope. Many a family has started out innocently with a turtle or a fish and wound up with two cats, a rabbit and a St. Bernard.

September 18, 2012No CommentRead More