I'm having an unusually difficult time trying to decide whether to scrap our aging phone system and upgrade to something better. Ordinar...

I woke up this morning with all sorts of ideas about how to solve little problems around the house. None of them worked. I was convinced tha...

Like virtually everyone else in America, we went and ate boatloads of grilled and smoked meats with friends today. Our friends adopted Willo...

It was a nice, quiet day. I'm glad when I get an opportunity to use the words nice and quiet together in the same sentence. It doesn...

I wish you could buy groceries on the iTunes store. It's so easy to purchase stuff on iTunes that it's easy to forget you've act...

I picked up a new Dalmatian today at the Richardson Animal Shelter. Her name was Molly and she had been surrendered to the pound when her ow...

When I was out of the office today I made a telephone call from my iPad and it actually worked. I'm delighted. Now I have the cell phone...

Not a great day. When I went to fix my morning coffee, I noticed that a new piece of artwork in the kitchen had fallen off the wall and brok...

If today was a battle between the high-tech and low-tech forces in my life, low-tech definitely won. I had to return the Bluetooth headset I...

I finally got my tax refund in the mail. Unfortunately, half of the money has already disappeared to pay my accountant for figuring out how ...

Dot and Dash went to their second birthday party in less than a week. This time, the party was for Tom, our obedience class instructor, who ...

I usually try to do something useful around the house on Saturday. Sometimes, I actually improve things and other times I just make a mess. ...

While I was waiting for the Brazilian petrochemical folks to call me on Skype this morning, I got a call from HorrorGuy , who wanted me to b...

Last month, after one of our Dalmatian Rescue pet picture events, the manager at Unleashed told me that if I brought down some of my photo...

I'm just about ready to throw in the towel and give up on the stock market entirely. My broker called me today and said I needed to sell...

Once again I got the dreaded "Service Required - 0001001B" message when I turned on the printer this morning. This message basical...

It was finally dry enough today for me to go up on the roof with a caulking gun full of Henry Patching Cement and try to put an end to the n...

In a day filled with walking dogs, washing dogs and taking dogs to the dog park, I eventually found a little time to open up the iPad box I...

When I checked my e-mail this morning, there was a message that said "Congratulations, your iPad is here." You'd think my init...

Another soggy, wet day with dogs huddled under my desk, rainwater collecting on my roof and horrible traffic everywhere I drove. I fantasize...