Where there's a William ...

Once I discovered the actual amounts involved, I realized that, while I can live comfortably enough this year, by its nature "retiremen...

So, it's now official; earlier today I fully assimilated myself into the Socially inSecure borg.  As it worked out, this was a surprisin...

So, I ordered a product from an on-line vendor.  As you do. I paid for my purchase via Pay Pal.  As you do. I received a shipping notifi...

I don't really have a lot to say about the occasion, or I do and don't want to get into all that just now. Mostly both, I suspect....

Second day back at work yesterday and the seat support thingee I bought didn't help me make it to the end of the shift as well as it see...

To re-cap; on Sunday the 19th of January I developed lower back pain that extended down the length of my left leg.  On the following Monday ...

This past Sunday afternoon at about 4:30 I started feeling pain in my left hip.  Within an hour, I was almost in tears.  On Monday, I went t...

Saves me having to choose between it and ... well, living. Introducing my latest (and likely only) sleeping companion, The Snout , including...

M. Simon writes the Power and Control blog and has been critically commenting on events in Japan involving the nuclear reactors there (star...

Day 55 of an American Held Hostage to corporate disdain! At least a few people have noted my experience with what is publicly acknowledged ...

That's what it read on the digital thermometer in my truck this morning on the way home from work. I don't suppose it's actually...

1/14/11: See update at bottom of post. As I mentioned here , I took an unexpected opportunity and bought a .45acp revolver. Smith & Wess...

WTF? This is Texas; it's 21 Fargin' degrees outside! Which is actually the start of a heatwave. Yesterday at this time it was 17 deg...

It must be the lack of sunlight. Or something. It doesn't really feel like depression per se , but nothing seems to overcome the letha...

Here's something to look forward to: Temperatures dropped into the upper teens and lower 20s this morning and even with abundant sunshin...

I ordered an item last week and the vendor uses UPS. Which is fine as far as that goes, but there seems to have been a problem completing th...