You might have a Obsessive Christmas Decorating problem if; If the timer that turns on your Christmas lights has its own satellite dish so it can synchronized its time to three different GPS satellites. For a backup the timer has it own Internet connection to the Navy’s atomic clock in Washington DC. If you duck […]
The twelve days of a Power Tools Christmas (nothing says Christmas like home made Christmas decorations and POWER TOOLS). You know the tune. On the first day of Christmas I went and bought myself a really big, humongous, table saw. On the second day of Christmas I went and bought myself 2 nail guns, and […]
You might have an Obsessive Christmas Decorating problem if; If you have ever cut a branch off a Christmas tree and glued it back on in a different place so the tree would look natural, balanced. If you have rearranged the Christmas lights, decorations, and displays in your neighbor’s front yard because they weren’t aligned […]
You might have an Obsessive Christmas Decorating problem; If your neighbor complains about you using a precision machinist ruler to measure the distance between Christmas ornaments when you put them on the tree in your front yard. If you get upset when you explain to your neighbor that a yard stick isn’t accurate enough. If […]
You are a writer. I can say that till I’m blue in the face and you won’t believe me. You want prof. You’ve been one since kindergarten, when they forced you to use a pencil the size of a blunt telephone pole to trace out the alphabet on a sheet of brown paper that had […]
A friend lost his house in the fires around The City of Ventura, California yesterday. I offered to help all I could, but it’s not enough. He looked in bad shape the morning after he had to evacuate. He couldn’t get back to his house to find out if it was gone or not. The […]
Twas the night before a Steampunk Christmas And all through the Castle and Keep Not a creature was stirring Not even the monsters dared make a peep. The tree was trimmed but underneath it looked so bare waiting for presents soon to be placed there The guards were asleep, in their barracks so quiet. A […]
When I was very young, I would stay with my grandmother. Grandfather ran his own business and Grandmother always got anxious when the mailman was due. There could be a check in the mail. Back then the mailman came twice a day. Once in the morning and again around 3 o’clock. In the 1850s there […]
I went to the grocery store to pick up a couple of things for lunch. It’s a straight shot from the front door to the meat section. I headed to the meat case looking for an alternative protein for lunch. As I was looking for the specials there were several people arguing about turkeys. This […]
I stopped writing for the NanoWriMo challenge this year. I know you what you are thinking, he wrote for a little over one week and then quit. I didn’t quite writing. I have two manuscripts setting here that need to go to an editor and they’re not ready for the editor to see. To paraphrase […]