It's been raining almost every day for several weeks now. At least we aren't getting flooded like our neighbors in South Texas, bu...

Memorial Day makes me think of my parents. They both served in the Navy during World War II. Neither of them was career military, but thei...

Some days you shouldn't get out of bed. Today was one small blunder after another. I decided to wash a bunch of small rugs that are ha...

I'm convinced that calling tech support is a modern form of torture. I called AT&T today to ask then how to return the new router ...

It was raining so hard this morning that I quickly abandoned my plans to go out for breakfast. It just wasn't worth it. The dogs are a...

Sometimes on a completely normal day I'll suddenly find myself feeling incredibly sad. I don't know why, but I suspect this is bec...

I wish Steve Jobs were still alive. I never used to have problems with operating system updates, but lately the new Apple OS and IOS updat...

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news," Janet told me this morning, "but the sink is still leaking." I looked under the...

There have been better days. The suspension problems on my car that I was almost certain would be a warranty repair are not a covered item...

If you ever want to take the pulse of today's millennials, just go to an REI sale. I stopped by the store's self named "bigge...

The mosquitoes are terrible this year. I must have been bitten a dozen times while we were walking the dogs this morning. Mosquitoes alway...

Sometimes I hate the Internet. For several days I've been having trouble connecting to some of my clients websites. My Internet Servic...

You can never ignore Murphy's Law when you hire a plumber. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Somehow plumbing problems alway...

It has been unseasonably cold this month. When I wake up on a damp, grey day like today, it's easy to imagine that I'm still livin...

I'm convinced that waiting for service technicians must be one of the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno. No matter when you sched...

I find dealing with money very frustrating these days. People want to pay me less than they did ten or fifteen years ago, while the cost o...

I was listening to the TED Radio Hour on the way to the gym this afternoon and the topic was Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs. Th...