Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Retirement

April 12th, 2017

What I’ve been thinking about lately is this: how in the name of all that’s right and holy am I ever going to be able to retire? Sixty-seven is only 12 years away and due to my own stupidity and bad financial moves I have maybe 35K set aside in my 401K. With the pittance […]

Optima!

July 16th, 2013

Sort-of new wheels. 2005 Kia Optima.

Sayonara, Facebook!

June 12th, 2013

No more Facebook for me. Seriously, all done. The last time I said this was in response to Facebook’s annoying habit of changing and resetting privacy options- every time they tweaked something they would automatically reset my privacy options to the default (read that as “wide open”). I got over that after about a week […]

Cutting the cord

November 9th, 2012

Finally pulled the plug on my Facebook account. It’s been a while in the coming- I certainly got sick of the politics during the election, and the way they seem to be insistent on steadily stripping away your privacy “for your own good” (read that, “For our profits”). So, today I finally did it. My […]

Just testing

September 22nd, 2012

Posting from my phone at Bertucci’s in Rockingham, NH. Dropping Facebook so this site will a lot more action.. in theory, anyhow.

Cancer

September 14th, 2012

My wife has been diagnosed with Uterine Cancer. The doctor called her and delivered the news as she was waiting outside the high school to pick up our son. We don’t know… hell I don’t know what to make of this. I researched it and I know that if it is Endometrial and Stage 1 […]