Some Things Must Be Endured

2023-02-04 On Sunday evening I was headed for Walmart. Lee Street to S MEsa Drive to River Road to Temple Boulevard to Dimmock Parkway to...

2023-01-25 The dotter has not ceased her efforts to make this house a home. Or possibly an arboretum. I'm never sure which. So, interposed with the January 11 Woman at Work pictures are these new ones. January 11 January 25 January 11 January 25 January 11 January 25 January 11 January 25 (Yes, it used to be white.) January 11 January 25 January 11 January 25 January 11 THE DOTTER January 25 painting a mirror frame (Don't tell her I took her picture.) LOLA Beloved pet Ch'waw

2023-01-25 Unpacking is one of the pitfalls of packing. You have to pack in order to move at all... not strictly true. You could, in...

2023-01-22 Right on the heels of the mail crisis comes the interwebs crisis. "Dad," the dotter emotes, "the internet sucks!" I reply, "So...

2023-01-22 The next crisis of Home Moanership has arrived, or not. Okay, it isn’t a crisis so much as an act of forgetfulness on my part....

JANUARY 18, 2023 AT 1:32 PM Happy Third Wednesday of the Month (AKA Social Security Check Day)! I can afford to pay my mortgage, or eat....

2023-01-13 Electricity. The dotter has complained that the lights sometimes flicker. For the past few days, they dim and flicker and then...

2023-01-11 The dotter appears in none of these photos, and yet, they are all of her. This is just the ground floor, and not all of that. No bedrooms shown, nor bathroom. Just the sunroom, living room, dining room, and kitchen - the front side of the house, as it were. And finally

2023-01-07 We have achieved the first of the major problems. Plumbing. The dotter has screeched that she hates this house! Why? The...

2023-01-03 I told the dotter I was going to be proactive, starting my buyer's remorse on the way back from closing. BR is inevitable -...

2022-12-29 It took until after 3 PM, and I got separated from my agent when following her back to her office. I was lost - not very lost,...

2022-12-23 Closing is still scheduled for the 29th. The loan team has provided me with a coordinator who will make arrangements for...

2022-12-19 Closing on the New Dwelling continues to be scheduled for December 29. Packing continues. My "closet" has been broken down to...

2022-12-12 There are many pictures of The Mancave, especially in the early posts of this blog. But The Mancave is in the garage of my EX...

2022-11-15 [updated 2023-03-30] THE PROVERBIAL GLASS from WIKI From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Is the glass half empty or half...

Cecelia Wood Blevins March 7, 1961 April 19, 2022 I hardly knew ye.

2022-08-31 It just arrived. :)

2022-08-12 Too Much Information is a webcomic published sporadically since May, 2005, by AndyOH! Andy's health has kicked his ass...

2022-07-11 11:20 I met with my Urologist today to discuss the results of the biopsy. Yes, there is some cancer at one of the 14 sample...

2022-06-25 16:30 In a post this week, I called it my "Chiliest Chili." But even in that post, I was questioning whether the name "Chili"...