Most people don’t end up in situations like me. I was fired during the financial crisis, found no one wanted to hire me, rolled the dice on the stock market and ended up retired. That’s what we call “retrospectively lucky”. Still, even now, I find it hard admitting it’s time to retire. In this case,… Read more »
Planning out my Halloween goody bags is pretty simple. I have a spreadsheet I adjust each year for contents and quantity. But for one year, I’ve never run out of bags to give away. Admittedly, I’ve had to “cross over” an age group now and then (giving out young boy bags to older boys), but… Read more »
Or, I wonder how many post titles he can come up with using the word “wonder”. Moving on from my youth, my teen years were marked by a life-changing event: I was now old enough to become gainfully employed. Of course, teen years also brought graduation from high school and then college, living away from… Read more »
Which can also be read as “I wonder how he got to be like that”. In the first installment of my series of self-reflective posts about how I’ve led an interesting life after all, we begin at the beginning. It’s perfect! I’ve always been good at problem solving. My personality is built on logic and… Read more »
Or, more precisely, out of space. As I recently mentioned, I’ve given up on trying to read via an e-reader (in my case, a Kindle). That leaves me in an untenable position, however. Because, I don’t just like paperbacks (and hardcovers), but I like comics. More to the point, I like that comics are now reprinted… Read more »
In my last post, I used a picture of a “holiday card” inspired by the TV show “The Walking Dead”. In that post, I mentioned I’m not a fan. Today. we’re going to expand on that a bit. First, let me say I’ve read three graphic novel collections (comprising 36 issues of the comic on… Read more »
My Dad is great. He’s also a pain in the butt. By extension, that makes him a great pain in the butt. I joke with my Sister that the butt part is why he’s such a great Dad – if he didn’t care so much, he wouldn’t bother being a pain. Sure, there are times… Read more »
“Age is only a number” Heh. Humans say the funniest things. During my morning stretching exercises prior to walking, I realized my lower back was not hurting me any more. This was the first time since Halloween clean-up that I didn’t feel any pain there. It occurred to me that was a long time for… Read more »
I’m serious. My mind has a mind of its own. It’s like my brain is on broadband and the rest of me is on dial-up. I got another example of this last night/this morning. I woke up from a romantic dream. Just to be clear, I have not recently been in, currently in or expecting… Read more »
October 1st is this Saturday. That will be the official kick-off of my 2016 Halloween preparations. I’ve finished painting the edging stones and I am pleased with how they look, albeit now slightly concerned that they may not be sufficiently high enough. I could cut down the size of the pen and double the height… Read more »
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