by admin | Jun 14, 2016
The story begins on a cold winter day in 1977. Actually, I have no idea about the actual date or the weather, but I’m thinking 1977 is pretty close. We had recently visited my Uncle Roy and his family in a suburb of Chicago (Skokie, IL). It was there that we witnessed...
by admin | May 14, 2016
Earlier this week I took my daughter, Arianna, to UW-Oshkosh for a campus visit. It was nice and while she’s waiting for UW-Madison to get their shit together (get her off the waitlist and offer her admission), UWO will be fine. They have nice school colors, a...
by admin | May 2, 2016
Frustration Level: High Last week I was looking for a small hammer as I was going to hang a picture for Lindsey. Yes, I have other hammers, but I was getting frustrated as I couldn’t find the one I wanted. I think it was a situation where someone borrowed it and...
by admin | Apr 22, 2016
Last week my Dad asked me to make a copy of a CD for a friend of his. This happens quite often as he and his friends get recordings of music that is not commercially available directly from Switzerland. Burning CDs for my Dad is something I really enjoy. Compact Discs...
by admin | Apr 17, 2016
So today while we were eating lunch Arianna asked me if I drove with my arm hanging out the window. I said “no”, but Grandpa Don used to do it all the time. He’d come home with one tan arm and one white arm. She laughed pretty hard and mentioned that she could see him...
by admin | Apr 5, 2016
Merle Haggard 1937-2016 I’m sure you heard that Merle Haggard died yesterday. Honestly, I’m not sure that I know any of his music, but it got me to thinking about some of the music that my parents listened to when I was younger in an effort to punish me....
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