Update on the IPod Post

Thanks to everyone who gave me recommendations.  I like to do a lot of research before I pluck down money on something high-tech.  These are the features I would like in an MP3 player (I don’t think I’m going to do the iPod because I feel it limits me too much.)
1.  Playback of my CD [...]

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Instead of Plan B

Why not try Plan A?  (Hat tip to Garrett.)

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If I Could Talk to the Animals

Whenever I take my early evening stroll through the neighborhood I see various critters, but mostly cats. Whenever I pass by a house with cats in the yard I always talk to the cats — meow. I get one of three reactions, they look at me but do not reply, they totally ignore [...]

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Summer Thunderstorms

We have had three days of thunderstorms this week. Monday late afternoon we had a nice thunderstorm that cooled things down quite a bit. Tuesday morning we woke up to the sound of thunder and about 20 minutes of rain. Thursday morning we woke up to lightning, thunder and rain which [...]

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The Disabled Just Can’t Get a Break

I learned today, via Pat’s Pond, that Pluto is no longer a planet, at least according to “leading astronomers” who have created new guidelines as to the classification of planets. They have determined that Pluto is a dwarf planet. So does that mean that dwarf people are not really people? I know [...]

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To iPod or not to iPod…

… that is the question.  My birthday is less than two months away and I told Norm that I would like an iPod so I could listen to cool tunes while I take my evening stroll through the neighborhood.  After thinking about it for awhile and looking around on the Internet, I’m wondering if I [...]

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And Now for Something Different

Check out Norm’s new podcast.

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Mosquitoes — I Hate Them!

Since we had rain the past few weeks, not a whole lot but some, we’ve also gotten mosquitoes.  The first year I lived here, back in 1999, we never had mosquitoes.  Now we get them every summer when we get monsoon storms.
Mosquitoes like me for some reason.  I swell up instantly when I get bit.  [...]

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