I’ll be that probably almost everyone reading has heard that question from a parent / guardian / teacher or other authority figure at least once, probably dozens of times. It’s also a phrase that I’ve been catching myself using when going through my email. Yes, I am not a hamster but I do admit talking to my email (and other) programs.

How shall I describe yesterday? I like to keep this blog family friendly so I’m sure that most readers will understand my meaning when I just call it a “Rolling and Screaming Charlie-Foxtrot”. The details of this adventure is something that my wife will no doubt do a much better job of writing about than I can. What I want to focus on here is the cherry on top of that “wonderful” day.

I can’t help but wonder just exactly what some of these parents were thinking when they decided to saddle a kid with a name like “Number 16 Bus Shelter”.

When I heard about Phil Gramm’s comments this morning I had the same reaction that I’m sure many other Americans caught in the middle between need and greed did.

I was just on my Facebook page, editing my “applications” because when I signed up recently I got into the game of the thing and before I realized it I had nearly thirty of them! As if that wasn’t enough, When adding them, I neglected to un-check the box that tells them NOT to [...]

Just when you think you’ve heard everything, along comes proof that in fact, you haven’t. Case in point is a recent CBS News story about the case of an unidentified woman who was found with her hair cut off, a plastic bag over her head and her hands cut off. She had been [...]

Remember the Writer’s strike? I remember it. Some of the few things I liked about television were either killed by it or had their seasons ended several months early because of it. Now it’s a year later and we’re staring at the prospect of another strike that could delay the fall season, [...]

You know the type… prone to loud stereo’s going at all hours of the night and day, parties, fights, loud cars with engines racing… Trash cans clattering and banging in the middle of the night and once in a while a really loud fight that may or may not include gunshots and / or a [...]

It’s late at night, you’re just nicely starting to drift off into a much needed nights sleep and suddenly your whole body is treated to a gut wrenching low frequency vibration that shatters any hope you had of rest. What happened? Your neighbor has just started up their car stereo in the driveway.
I’ve [...]

Looking at a few days worth of emails and ran across this item:
U.S. MAY GIVE UP ON AID TO MYANMAR
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he will make a decision within “a matter of days” to withdraw U.S. Navy ships from the coast of Myanmar, because “it’s becoming pretty clear the regime is not going [...]