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Friday, March 19, 2010

16 days ago since my last post? Crikey...

If retirement's like this I ought to just blow all my money at once, I'll never notice. Really nothing much to say except I'm here, and now I'm going to go read some other folks' posts. Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Grace After Fire

http://www.graceafterfire.org/index.php Dear "Grace After Fire", Since you do not offer a means to simply send you an email without participating in your forums (which would be inappropriate and, on my part, undeserved), I'll write to you here and presume a quick Google will turn this up. If not,... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

You Must Read This About The Haitian Experience

http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=17015 My skeptic antennae are up a little, but it sounds "right". I have failed to find it plagiarized, neither ripped off by not originating with others. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, February 15, 2010

What does it mean when you hear the music for your funeral?

A piece which just sums it up, no lyrics. Is it like the gooseflesh when someone walks on your future gave? Not a presage, but just something which would be...fitting. A gift you could leave your survivors, wellwishers, maybe opponents. Then, what does it mean when you hear three in a row? Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Do folks in Muslim lands joke about Burkhas?

(I'm sorry if some of my best critics may not be here to comment any more, my tardiness is my excuse). An old friend sent a seemingly honest photo of a man in traditional garb snapping a photo of five ladies in burkhas. The caption it came with, presumable pre-added, made the humorous point that... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Youtube as time machine

All my computers are growing a "Favorites" list entitled "YOUTUBEMUSIC". Given five or ten montes downtime, I look up stuff I listened to as a kid... "Downtown" by Petula Clark? Got it. "For Michael, Jeffery and Me" by Jethro Tull? Natch! "You Were On My Mind" by We Five? Bazinga. "BuddyRich ala... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Drop your pride! Post your buttons! (Say, WHAT!?"). BLOGIT KARMA

I've exhausted all other avenues other than mailing cash. Majroj's Two-Step Process to Blogit Karma: 1. Post a DONATE button if you are having trouble making the fees. 2. Pass it on when you get out of the rough patch. Oh yeah. 3. Fakers are prone to everlasting athlete's foot and bitter... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Not to overshadow my blog of less than an hour ago...missing friends

More of our emeriti bloggers are slipping away. I will miss them, especially as I just got a new lease on life as it were (or extended the old one a little). Is it me or not? Were the BloggingNetwork-Blogit crowd different than the newer (say, post-2005) folks, or was it the same and a Darwinian... Sign in to see full entry.

Well, gravy for the gander after all...

Good Gravy at that! I had to see a physician, my various complaints and conditions were getting worse quickly. I couldf not fit my work schedule around my doc's over the next month, so I took an appt with another practitioner I was somewhat familiar with. I gave her my history, she listented to my... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fair warning: I'm on Facebook. Sorta.

The family demands that I use Facebook to look at baby pictures etc. Now I know what Grandfather felt like when he had to get a phone. Sign in to see full entry.

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