To Catch A Thief
The wife and I sat down to watch To Catch A Thief this evening. Released in 1955, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starred Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. I’ve never seen it before and the…
Happy Tau Day!
Happy Tau Day, my Hordeling. Many people know the mathematical concept of pi, which is the radius r of a circle squared. It is usually represented by the number 3.14159 and whole lot more numbers…
Six reasons dead tree versions of books are better than ebooks
If you’ve spent any amount of time reading my posts, my Hordeling, you know that I’m an avid bibliophile. I LOVE books. Pretty much right up there after fire, electricity, the wheel and chocolate chip…
Four down, one to go
So, I’ve got another flash fiction tale done. One more to go. I’m not happy with this. I know it isn’t ‘right’ but I’m not sure what exactly the problem with it is. It’s one…
An appreciation of modern technology
During all the packing and boxing and things, I found one of my old laptops. I decided to crank it up and see what was on it. It turns out the laptop was my main…
The moving company is in trouble
All that packing and boxing stuff up we did recently was so we could put shtuff in storage. We ended up with 184 boxes and some furniture. We kept a list of the boxes, with…
Sirocco cornered something under the shed
We were just sitting down to watch Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom when I heard the dogs barking in the backyard. They kept going but the barking got more intense. I figured I’d best go…
Doggy door search
Our dogs get into a cycle where one goes outside, and three minutes later another wants to go out, and the first one comes in. Then three minutes later, the third one goes out and…
Once again, stacking emails and Arthur Mace
So, I just sent out yesterday’s email a few minutes ago. I intended it to go out yesterday, of course, but somehow I missed coming back to the browser window to actually send the thing.…
eBay isn’t for the weak
I’ve put more things we are getting rid of on eBay today. You can sell almost anything on eBay, but when it will sell is a whole ‘nother ball of wax. It might take a…