It’s been a helluva five days. Thursday night we came home from Joey’s Xmas concert to a fantastic discovery: the basement had flooded. Again. It’s that damned crock and sump pump, as it always is. This time it happened because the pipe the water runs through was clogged with leaves right by the drain in [...]

I really really hate the damn TSA. And O’Hare. There, I got that out of the way. I was at O’Hare on Sunday, catching a United flight back from my visit at Jim’s. We went to see Rush and it was suddenly 1987 again. But that’s another story. Anyway, I arrived an hour and forty-five [...]

I’m about to get snarky and mean, so don’t read this if you don’t want to hear it. This is a note to everyone who uses the self-scan registers at grocery stores: Hey, halfwit: if you routinely have a hard time remembering which side of the toothbrush to use, perhaps you shouldn’t be scanning your [...]

The other day Diana and I were walking the dogs on the usual route: from our house down to the riverfront trail, along the river to the dike and back home again. You run in to all kinds of people. A couple of weeks ago I happened upon three native Indians. Two were in full [...]

You know you’re just a little excited. I’ll give you this Canadian’s take (filed under Kvetching for reasons you’ll soon read) on the plethora of product predictions sweeping the web these past few weeks: Apple “iPhone” Sounds more likely than not to be announced. But unless you live in the US you won’t care because [...]

Flipping around the dial tonight, I happened to catch a showing of the January 17, 1988 AFC Championship Game between the Cleveland Browns and the hated Denver Broncos. The game that ended in The Fumble. This put me in mind of the previous year’s AFC Championship Game, also between these two teams, which ended in [...]