Wow!  Have you checked out the price of gold lately?  It’s now selling for more than $1,000 an ounce!
I’ve never been one to wear a lot of jewelry, so I really don’t own that much, but what I do have is the good stuff.  I’m seriously considering scrounging around for some busted up chains to […]

Well, here we are, just a couple of days away from spring (YAY!), and the weather woes continue.
This time it’s rain.  Lots of it.  We’re expecting about three inches of the stuff by midnight tomorrow.
The problem, aside from the obviously huge amount in the forecast, is that we haven’t exactly been experiencing a drought around […]

…or was it merely coincidence that this was the day the bird decided that — gulp! — HE LIKES ME!
I was squatting down beside the cage today, making a cooing noise because Astro seemed a little bored.  He had been squawking quite a bit, using the screech generally reserved for “Is anybody out there?”
So I […]

BJ and I have been talking a lot lately about listening to different people’s accents and trying to figure out where they live.
I’m really not sure how this discussion thread began, quite honestly, but it’s been coming up quite a bit as of late. And I’ve been told I have an accent.
Now, you […]

Oh, sure, I know people, dogs, cows, and all sorts of other creatures do it all the time, but I was more than a little surprised to have it come from a parrot.
“It” is a fart.  Astro was sitting there on BJ’s shoulder, happily chattering away.   Then we heard him break wind, and yes, […]

Well, it’s finally happened. I am now exactly half-a-century old.
When I hit thirty, it was weird. I couldn’t really reconcile the whole “don’t trust anybody over 30″ thing with my then-current status. I felt, well, old. Then my mom fixed me my favorite baked steak dinner, and all was well again.
At […]

A guy I worked with at the radio station is absolutely addicted to fantasy leagues. Baseball, football, basketball, field hockey — virtually any team sport would set his heart racing because he knew he could sign up for some fantasy league somewhere and try to outwit the other “owners” he would encounter.
He tried several […]

Every now and then, I actually manage to get something accomplished. This was one of those days.
It started this morning with a decision not to venture out to go to church. The heavy snow on top of the heavy ice pretty much ruled out travel, so even though I hate missing, it was […]

Have you ever registered to win a “prize,” actually “won” it, and then discovered that, in order for the thing to work, you have to make a purchase, usually substantial?
I hate sales gimmicks like that. So when I happen across a contest where (a) the prize is actually worth having, and (b) everything is […]

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve no doubt learned that I am officially sick of this winter.  Well, here we go again.
There’s a big low pressure system over top of us right now, and it’s dumping snow all over the place.  But believe it or not, that’s the GOOD news!
I took BJ […]