Rants, musings, and other general purpose blog entries reflecting the thoughts du jour.
This is the last photo I have of Dad and his grandchildren in front of his house (from over three years ago). He is in a far better place now and whilst it still seems to take a bit of getting used to, I know that he knows he is loved even if he is no longer walking among us. Looking at this picture, I'm struck by the rather impertinent thought that where that neighbourhood…
I just got back home from a quick in-and-out to Florida and Orlando was its usual hot and humid self (which if you've ever lived there is about 11.5 months of the year!). I hired a car from Hertz and the agent at the desk and the chap who was at the checkpoint at the exit of the car park offered free ice cold bottles of water. What an amazingly considerate and BRILLIANT thing to…
After dropping Nick off at school downtown, my precinct is on the way back home so I figured I'd pop in and vote in the primary being held today. What I wasn't expecting was to find a cameraman from Time Warner Cable News INSIDE THE BUILDING blocking the door to the polling room and then keeping the camera pointed at me the entire time I was in there and going through the voting procedures. Can…
