(This was written circa 2014, while living in our house on Caper here in Boise.) Morning It’s just a few minutes after 5:00 a.m. Outside on my tiny, barely-holds-two-chairs-and-a-mini-table front porch I breathe in the smell of last night’s rain. It was just a short spate, just Mother Nature spitting last night, but enough … Continue reading Up At Five
"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality." Walt Disney Doubting Disney I know, doubting Disney is foolish. Their track record is fantastic. They have announced and are making remakes of their classic library as live action movies. With … Continue reading Doubting Disney
Yesterday, we visited the local Social Security office. It is hard to imagine, though I have been imagining it now in recent years, that I will turn 66 in less than two months. Retirement age. Gold watch phase. Couch-sitting page. Hard to believe it’s all coming to an end. I’ve been in the full-time workforce … Continue reading Backing Into Social Security
"That's the real magic, helping other people." Cassie Nightingale The Good Witch; Season Four: My Review The Good Witch just finished Season Four with its tenth episode. The final episode aired July 1, 2018. Tonight. This show is on Hallmark and with Hallmark come all of the expectations; love, weddings, flowers, very minor drama and … Continue reading The Good Witch; Season Four: My Review
“The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” ~Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 86 Yesterday I took a day trip to Sage Hen Reservoir. I had asked my friend Kevin Laughlin for recommendations and he gave me his top three. … Continue reading It Was A Sage Hen Kinda Day
"Have I gone too far?" Kathy Griffin The Community Standard The World of Warcraft, recently, created a new system called the Silence Penalty. With it, players can be reported for any number of things like language, spam or their own made-up names. A report doesn't automatically silence them and I don't know exactly how it … Continue reading The Community Standard
From My Journal - 10-20-13 Torino, Italy Sitting in my apartment looking through the window, opaque by fog, buses going by, last night the neighbors were running up and down, loud talk, outside the world walked by and I wonder why. Why am I here, why I must question why. My wife lies … Continue reading From My Journal – 10-23-13
Trixie Lorraine: What's the show about? Barney Hopkins: It's all about the Depression. Carol King: We won't have to rehearse that. The Gold Diggers of 1933 This is a special movie and well worth seeing. I think I'm now in love with Joan Blondell and want to see ALL of her movies. Also starring in … Continue reading The Gold Diggers of 1933
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.” Han Solo Solo: A Star Wars Story: My Review Solo is a fine popcorn movie for a Saturday afternoon. I enjoyed the action and humor and pacing. The only real problem with Solo is that it is buried … Continue reading Solo: A Star Wars Story: My Review
Today, May 29, 2018, the day after Memorial Day, I weigh as much as I have in recorded history. Since our system of weights and measures was standardized. Since the great Depression, the latest recession, and the birth of Impression-ism. It is a sobering number. I knew, as I stepped upon the scale as … Continue reading Weight, Weight. Don’t Tell Me!*
The Profound Bartender 
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