Do You Believe in any Superstitions?

There are superstitions and then there are Superstitions! Like some of the rest of you, I had a lot of “old wives’ tales” to overcome, since I grew up in a home with a loving but very superstitious mother. I suffered greatly from her fears, especially during my teenage years, … Read more…

When Songs Get Stuck in our Heads

Ok, I’m going to date myself now. But I know some of my readers remember the fun song, Bimbo, that was first recorded by Jim Reeves, who later died in a private plane crash in 1964. I can’t quote too much of the song because “fair use” for the music … Read more…

If Money Were No Object

Ssssh! Don’t tell anyone but if I really won an unlimited amount of money, I would be out of this world in a state-of-the-art spacecraft, “exploring brave new worlds”! But, with technology not yet at the 23rd Century levels that are coming, I would have to choose where in this … Read more…

Luck or Destiny?

Outside of the major topics covered by the Ten Commandments – they that have no wiggle room in interpretation – there are few simple answers to questions in life. Luck or Destiny? Such a simple choice, right? But I took the better path and did think about it for a … Read more…

Ready to Roll Again

Now that the migration of my website from HTML to WordPress is underway – it will never be complete – I’m ready to start blogging on a “whenever the mood strikes” basis. As with tweeting, blogging for the sake of blogging is a waste of everyone’s time. But if I … Read more…

Blog is suspended until further notice

As should be obvious by now, I have not posted any blog material in a long time. The comment-spam issues have not been resolved by the host, and I lack the time or the interest to deal with missing plug-ins. However, of greater concern is that my [previous] employer has … Read more…

Comment-Spam

We continue to experience a flood of “comment-spam” with multiple links to mostly salacious websites. There are solutions for this and I have been waiting for [past] host to implement one of them. For example, a software plug-in to eliminate the comment-spam would be a good decision, with multiple choices … Read more…

An After-Christmas Sale

Department managers at my day job elected to have the holiday party after the holidays for a number of reasons. One of them was that “everyone is too busy to get together before then.” A second reason was that it would avoid a conflict of cultural celebrations, if we held … Read more…

Happy New Year!

There are a few hours yet to go until the stroke of midnight, although my home family welcomed in the New Year some four hours ago. Not that a subway workers’ strike helped in the slightest. Always, there are those who take advantage of others for their own gain; they … Read more…

It’s over for another year

Sometimes I feel as though I am the only person who is happy when Christmas is over. It isn’t right; I shouldn’t feel this way. But with all the hustle and bustle, and the wonderful lighted displays, excited children, and smiling adults’ faces, the season is so much work for … Read more…