Reaction to Random Catalysts

"Having a bad day, Neil? You look grumpy."---was one comment I recieved today. I responded, "No, just tired." Finally, it occurred to me why I felt so tired: I did not have my usual pot of coffee to start out the day, but only one cup at the transition meeting. Since it was hot again, I focused on... Sign in to see full entry.

"Wannabee"! That is the word that I recently played in Facebook Scrabble to score a bingo (all seven tiles played). I had seen that I could play "wannabee," but I did not think it would be accepted by the online Scrabble dictionary. To my surprise it was. The word, at best is colloquial, but I think... Sign in to see full entry.

While urging that his presidential opponent Mitt Romney to disclose a decade's worth of tax return, Obama himself has not disclosed any of his school records (so we don't know his grades or if he was possibly registered as a 'foreign exchange student.'), and his birth certificate still leaves... Sign in to see full entry.

Upon not noticing closely at first the sculptures in the park as I headed to a concert in the park, I appreciated them in their setting when I looked at them following the concert. The host park was a special rock/sculpture garden wherein several meandoring and gently sloping paths provided one... Sign in to see full entry.

F ellow workers and I discussed a little about religion--namely church affiliation. We did not really go deep beyond that but concluded that religion is a sensitive topic and so too is politics. One guy added that religion is harder to talk about because of its abstract nature. Of politics, another... Sign in to see full entry.

Luscious blueberries! Fresh, too. A coworker was thoughtful enough to share some with me today. He told me he picked them himself, but that he also picked them for an elderly lady who cannot physically harvest her blueberries lik e she used to do. The coworker reached an agreement with her, that for... Sign in to see full entry.

A tragic local fatality underlines a debate over the level of a cop's pursuit for law violators. Policemen in a town south of mine were paged by a superior to pursue after a fleeing criminal. One law enforcement tandem hit the accelerator without looking to see the pedestrian in front of them. That... Sign in to see full entry.

Upon taking my bicycle to the repair shop, I took it out of the back of my car where it had been for several days. I looked at its odometer settings. For temperature it read 106 degrees Fahrenheit! Wow, that is hot, nearly 25 degrees hotter than the temperature that was outside at the time. From... Sign in to see full entry.

The results of my physical examination came back from last week, and they tell me to stay the course. On the Green/Orange (Healthy/Unhealthy) chart, just about every test measurement was green. Of the few that were out of the preferred range (by less than 10%), all except for one pertained to my... Sign in to see full entry.

Billy Beer and shady Libyan dealings. Those were embarrassments, courtesy of Billy Carter, during the time when his brother Jimmy was President. It is not always the case, and probably not often the case, that siblings to the President step in line to make their brother look the best. That was not... Sign in to see full entry.