Random Meanderings and Other Meaningless Blather

So, I guess I just can't help myself. I stopped blogging for a while during the end of the election cycle, in addition to the most recen...

Furniture design has at least as much to do with design as it does with comfort. The best pieces find the elusive balance between the two. S...

Completed in 1961, the Fawcett House, by Frank Lloyd Wright is for sale. Located on 80 acres in Merced county, California, the price seems i...

You know I have a tendency to post pictures when I don't have much to say. In fact, I have lots to say, with the state leg in session, h...

About now, I'm craving the smell of freshly cut grass and the feeling of warm sun on bare feet. How about you? So, in the interim, check...

Further to my thoughts about economic recovery, here is a thought about the housing mess. While there are many facets to the problem, and th...

I consider myself to have a somewhat firm understanding of general economic principles. I'm no economist, but I understand how credit gr...

Over the Christmas break we planned to take everyone to see the BodyWorlds exhibit. I promised I wouldn't point at any "swimming su...

In reading what I wrote in a stream-of-consciousness kind of thing a couple of posts ago, one could easily get the impression that I am abou...

So, I'm standing in the Eddie Bauer store at a local mall over the weekend. I wanted a couple of new plain T-shirts, and I like the Eddi...

Dear 2009: Do me a small favor, will ya, and turn around and give 2008 the finger on its way out. It was very unkind as it wrapped up its pr...

Sort of like what my brain has felt like lately.

It's probably time I woke this thing back up, and put myself back out there a bit. I crawled into a hole a while back, for several reaso...

"Untitled" That's what famous artists do when they can't think of a title for their painting. And me. So here's a coup...

Yeah, that's right, I chopped my hair off. Time to face the reality that is my noggin. Actually, the shape of my head is not as goofy as...

Hi. I consider it no coincidence that I have played better golf since buying these . My most recent handicap revision shows me (temporarily,...

News outlets are reporting that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is to be named as McCain's VP pick. What do I have to say about that, you as...

See those two hairs there? yeah - those two. They belong neither to the right nor the left. They are volunteers. No mater what I do - pluck,...

Follow up to a couple of comments.... Never been seen together, at least not as far as Google knows, but the resemblance is striking nonethe...

A few weeks ago, we went to The Police concert. It TOTALLY lived up to the hype. My ears rang and my voice was husky. We were close, and eve...

The little dude in the background wishes he was our kid too. I have no doubt of this. This is the youngest of our usually-stampeding herd. H...

When the sign on the Alpine Slide says SLOW DOWN, you should do that. Just sayin'....

3 things: 1. Shadow 2. Reflection 3 Hunderd? Tri-fail.

Or maybe have a calf? My best feature. I earned these the hard way about 25 years ago as a missionary in Denmark. In those days, and in thos...

You know the Murphy's Law about how the Jelly side of the toast always lands on the floor. And you know the law about a cat always landi...

Here, have one - you know you want one... Also, this try seems to have worked out a little better than last time . That is all for now.

Starting to get back into the swing of things here. And getting back to posting, mostly regularly. We're in the middle of an office move...

A brief hello, to let you know I will be back it is shortly. Too bad, you say? Tough. In the meantime, enjoy this little tidbit. 3+ minutes ...

Yeah, have you seen this movie yet? We saw it a week or two ago. Rather enjoyed the movie, enjoyed tremendously ogling the architecture of T...