Knobby’s fixing someone’s Apple Mac Mini, so we ended up searching out the locally owned mom-and-pop-ish Apple store today to get some RAM for it. PixyObservation:  Way too many Prius cars (Priuses, Prii, I don’t care) in the parking lot.  Way too many “obama” stickers on them.  And all of the customers were old.  We [...]

The past few weeks/months have proved v.stressful around this house. Well, for me, anyway . . . whatever happens, Knobby always seems to sail in calm waters. So:  Stressful.  You might have read one of the latest blog posts, which was written at the peak of our predicament. By now, though, when I’m not feeling [...]

It is a beautifully foggy grey day today. The fog thick enough to wrap us up in it, the barren tree branches silhouetted through the great gray cloudy world. Here is the view from my desk.  Not the greatest, but you get the idea.   Beautifully grey. This weekend, I had/am still having another kidney [...]

I apparently just tried to take off our dryer’s door . . . with my chin. If I wake up tomorrow wondering what’s happened to my face or my teeth, or possibly my ears . . . well, we’ll have to remember this. (Walking to get the mail is more a wilderness trek than simple [...]

A little bit of nerditude sad today.  Last night I received word that the game Glitch was closing down.   Glitch will be missed.  It was a departure from the games which have flooded the market en masse.  There was no shooting, no blowing people up, no violence (well, except a rook attack) . . [...]

Hi, all. It’s been a while.  I bet you’ve been wondering where I was and why I wasn’t posting. A bit of sadness:  Mimi died early on Sunday morning, August 12. Her hospice caretakers had been telling us that she wouldn’t live through the hour for the past week, so we were prepared. Or, as [...]

I have a new favorite go-to line. “Surprise!  There’s an AIRPLANE here to SEE YOU!”   Is as good as my old stand-by from “It Happened One Night” . . . “Don’t fall out of any windows!” In case you have no clue, (get thee to the DVD POSTHASTE! For shame!) fast-forward way to the [...]