Fifty years ago today Apollo 13 started it's journey to the moon. We all know what happened a few days later. An explosion ripped the se...

I saw something interesting today. Google and Apple are teaming up to create a new app that can monitor up to three billion people and warn ...

There is very little to talk about these days unless you want to argue with someone. There is plenty to argue about because nobody really kn...

I'm always curious about what is going on in my own industry. Have you noticed the enormous number of new commercials on TV lately? Ever...

I keep wanting to say "Y'all are doing it wrong" when I hear all these suggestions about social distancing. I don't think ...

When the coronavirus started to become a serious threat, my first reaction was irritation. I was having the time of my life at McDonald Obse...

Today was uneventful. In today's world, that's a good thing. We have plenty of food. There's a pot roast cooking in the slow coo...

I try to go out for supplies once a week now. When I made my weekly run this morning, the world looked a lot different than it did last Satu...

Isn't it time we stopped calling this a pandemic and started calling it a plague? It's probably time we stopped blaming people for w...

The park is open again. There was no explanation why it closed yesterday and no explanation why it reopened again this morning. I did notice...

Well this sucks. Our washing machine broke. I called my favorite repair shop and they're gone out of business. Damn. Their phone has bee...

The world is starting to look like a Steven King novel. For the first time in years I was able to back out of the driveway during the aftern...

The park is still open to pedestrians and cyclists, but all entrances have been blocked and there are signs saying that the park is closed t...

I spent a long time trying to salvage files today and reassemble them on an external hard drive so I can continue staring at a computer as I...

Finally, something has taken my attention away from the coronavirus. My main computer crashed late last night. What a giant pain. I'm ha...

I finally heard from Sky and Telescope today. As I suspected, my manuscript wound up in the editor's spam folder again. I don't know...

Dawn gave me a scare today. She got spooked by something in the park and pulled out of her collar. It all happened very fast. Luckily, she s...