My thoughts for today have to do with technological advancements. There's good and bad in technology. People disconnect from reality, not usually a good thing. People can productively work from home, which is usually a good thing.  Yesterday, my city's internet service went down at about 11 am and didn't return for roughly 24 hours. People in my city threw a fit in many instances. I had to...

I've been getting roof quotes for my home and garage. It's a bit daunting. One company wouldn't even give an estimate because of the pitch of my roof; he recommended another place though. I had one estimate so far and it was for about what I would expect, $14,900 and I was guessing it would be about $15K. I've got two more contractors coming Monday for an estimate, but I doubt it will be much...

Have you ever had a day or week in which you felt like you were trapped in a Twilight Zone episode? This week, more specifically today more than the other days this week, not only are my dreams really crazy, but EVERYTHING has made me feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode. Verbal exchanges, work-related server crashes, my kids actually cleaning up after themselves, the weather going from a...

Je suis réapprendre le français. J'utilise YouTube, “ Learn French with Alexa .”   “Bonjour et beinvenue” is how most of her videos begin. I took French in High School (Freshman year), but that was quite a long time ago. I was actually surprised at how much I actually remembered. I don’t think that I would go through the trouble of relearning French if I didn’t have people to practice with...

This is short and sweet... Is my household less "American" because we don't watch Football / the Super Bowl? Quite frankly, we don't really watch any sports in my house. On rare occasions, when there's NOTHING else on TV, we will have a baseball game on, but that's pretty rare. We usually find something else to do. I've been to HS football games [my brothers played]. I've been to hockey games...

While I understand that the following is a controversial subject, I would like everyone to remain civil while discussing. This is not an article to discuss any president past or present. I will flag anyone that mentions any president’s name [past or present]. CPL Renewal I just renewed my concealed pistol license (CPL) for the third time, which means that I’ve had a CPL for 15 years now....

When it comes to coffee, I can honestly say that I’m quite the snob. There are very few places that I can say that I thoroughly enjoyed the coffee... and they’re all in Europe. I can tolerate coffee at a few different places here in the US, but the reality is, “store-bought” (Starbucks, McD’s, etc.) coffees here in the US don’t hold up to coffee in several European countries. Only if I’m...

Birthday’s are a funny thing. We celebrate that we’ve made it another year. I suppose at one time, making it another year was something spectacular. However, today... well with COVID and its new mutated children it might be something spectacular, but generally speaking it’s not all that spectacular to make it another year. It’s not like we have thousands dying of smallpox, dysentery, typhoid,...

First of all, I'm wishing all of you the best holiday possible. It's been a rough year for a lot of people. Secondly, I'm rather sure that I won't be turning on a computer at any point before the new year after today and I sure hope 2021 will prove to be a much better year! Lastly, I'm pretty blind; therefore, I don't generally log on here from my phone. So, at 3 pm [roughly] EST, I will...

Yesterday, I came up with the ridiculous nickname, Princess Unicorn Rainbow Farts in which TG replied, can’t we just call you PURF instead? That got me thinking about how I couldn’t believe I actually found a gif to represent unicorn rainbow farts and how much fun it would be to see what people come up with and if a pic or gif could be found to represent such ridiculousness. I’ll let you...

I saw these guys live at Pine Knob / DTE Music Theater; it was fantastic. Nice to Know You Dig Anna Molly Magic Medicine A Certain Shade of Green

This is the same young lady that I discussed in my previous blog. This is the first video of hers I watched; my daughter showed this one to me. This is Jade's lightheartedness and ability to laugh at herself. She even stated in another video that she's gained more confidence after posting to YouTube, Tik Tok, and the like.