Wishing

... for better weather 😦 This picture reminds me of Aruba, my favorite destination. (I have some pictures somewhere of my one and only trip there - can't find them right now.) I'm so over this winter weather. It has made an absolute mess of my schedule this semester. We don't have snow days in …

Happy Valentine’s Day

I arrived home later than usual last night. My bride of almost 33 years had a surprise waiting: a dozen roses - ten red ones surrounded by two white ones. Within an hour or so, the news broke: Virginia's ban on our marriage had been ruled unconstitutional. Combined, these make for probably the best Valentine's …

Friday fun: What career should you have?

I saw this making the rounds and since it's been so long, I figured I'd post it 😉 Pretty interesting quiz and choices. I'm not surprised to have gotten writer. The description - "you're not really the office type" - is dead on 😀 Go ahead - waste a few minutes and take the quiz. …

Technology Tuesday: Blackberry z10

I about had a heart attack when, Thanksgiving morning, my trusty Blackberry 9900 wouldn't boot up. It took me a couple of days to get around to figuring out what the problem was - the OS had become corrupted - and fixing it. My biggest problem was not the reloading of the OS but the …

Happy New Year!

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." -- Oprah Winfrey I wish you all the very best for 2014!

#tbt Music: a constant

When I bought my first house 30 years ago, I sold my trombone to buy something for my new home: a waterbed. Believe it or not, all these years later, I still have the waterbed 🙂 But I've missed my trombone, a silver King 3B with an F attachment that my mother bought me when …

Friday fun on a Monday: left-brained or right-brained?

Back to work this morning after a few days off. I happened to see this quiz on Facebook, so I thought it would be an easy time-waster 😉 Besides, the quiz is certainly more fun than thinking about another Washington loss, right? (Playoffs?) Anyway - here's the quiz. Have a great Monday!  

Washington 3-7

It's been quite a while since I wrote anything about the Washington football team. There really hasn't been much to say. The team performs poorly each week, with another loss yesterday to Philadelphia. As a longtime fan, it's really hard to watch the games. There's no fun in losing. I watched through 3 quarters yesterday …

Friday fun on a Wednesday

Calling all political junkies 🙂 VPAP has an elections predictions contest going on covering next week's elections. And not just the three statewide races. They've included several of the highly contested races in the House of Delegates. Head on over and participate 😉

Friday fun: what’s your temperament?

Bacon's Rebellion has an interesting post about the temperament of Virginia: Social scientists have divided the United States into three distinct regions based upon the preponderant personality type: friendly/conventional, relaxed/creative and temperamental/ uninhibited. [...] Virginia and North Carolina represent an isolated, East Coast bastion of the relaxed and creative personality type. The Tarheel state is …