After my son Noah shoveled my driveway and did a number of other chores at my house yesterday he consulted with his siblings about the four of them going in on one big Christmas present for me. They planned to head out first thing this morning to scour the Black Friday sales for the best [...]
Tag: Humor
Got attitude?
I've got attitude alright and it is one of the utmost gratitude. I am grateful for a thousand things large and small this day - as I am every day. In addition I will be grateful today for a fifth Thanksgiving in a row with no casualties from my cooking. On this Thanksgiving I hope [...]
Scanning my “horizon”…
There is quite an uproar about the full body scans the TSA has implemented and its alternative - the full body pat down. I can understand folks angst over both procedures as they both seem very invasive. I think folks would feel a tad better about submitting to such searches if they knew that TSA's [...]
Book early…
Let me be amongst the first to say this winter - SNOW BLOWS! We aren't even 24 hours into the first significant snowfall of the season and I am already ready to go on record as saying I am over it. Unfortunately, the word is that there is much more of this to come this [...]
The next episode of hoarders…
I had an epiphany yesterday and it wasn't pretty. I had to face the reality that I am a hoarder. Yes...a hoarder. Not like those folks you see on T.V. who have stuff stacked everywhere in their house and can barely move about it (albeit, my post-flood house does presently sort of look like that). [...]
I need a splatter shield!
Ever since our little flood event here (which occurred toward the end of September) we have been down to one bathroom. The other bathroom - the downstairs bathroom - is disembodied, as is the rest of my whole lower level. There is more to talk about here, but I don't want to start such a [...]
I gotta’ have faith…
I cannot say that I say this often, but I am with George Michael - "I gotta' have faith." Today in The Forum there is an article about an upcoming article in Men's Health magazine that ranks Fargo at 94 out of 100 cities in "religious devotion" (the magazine's latest Metrogrades comparison). I won't even [...]