Out with the old, in with the new

Goodbye, 2007! Hello, 2008!  Just a few hours left until the midnight hour.  Happy New Year to all…

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!  I got a slingbox for Christmas.  These things are so cool.  You hook them up to your home TV, Satelite or cable box and it streams the signal across the internet so you can watch your own TV from anywhere.  You can use a laptop or a windows mobile phone to control it [...]

Christmas hustle and bustle

Most people around here are big enough idiots on a normal day. But add the Christmas rush, the shopping high, the quest for the perfect gift, the cell phone attached to ear, the traffic, the lines, the poor customer service, and all of the other troubles and one wonders if anyone remembers what Christmas [...]

Stupid is as stupid does… Part II

I work in the IT field.  I have a large batch of equipment that we leased for three years and now it has to be de-installed, erased, packed, and shipped back.  I run out of bubble wrap in the office so I start a search for more.  I remember that there is a “UPS Store” [...]

I am a bad parent (maybe)…

So today is December 18. Only six shopping days to Christmas and I have still not finished my Christmas gift shopping. I started, but just have not finished. No matter how hard I try to get started early, I do not seem to make it. Kind of like waiting until April [...]

Responsible Parents

I am not sure why I have been on a parenting and education kick lately, but I guess it is something on my mind as I try to find ways to help my daughters get the proper education and earn the right opportunities in life.  This morning I was perusing the Clarion Ledger website (our [...]

More on Dumbing Down of America’s Future

So I see this story today: 
“Principal Tells Teachers To Dumb-Down Standards
City Hall Angered; Central Park East High Students Miffed”
Link  -  So even in New York they are trying to dumb things down to just keep shuffling our future generations through school.  I have heard from local persons involved with our schools that they are not [...]

It’s all about me…

Is it only when we are in our cars or is everyone becoming more self-centered?  I see people doing things while behind the protective facade of a vehicle windshield that they would not do if they were standing face-to-face with another human being.  I love my car, or truck, as the case may be, but [...]