by Ken | Nov 8, 2024 | Business & Work, Chronicles, Family & Personal, Parkview, Politics, Economy, Science
My health is fine in spite of scares. I always feel I’ve been blessed with a modicum of stability in my genes, as much as I’m not without ageing. Mer had a scare (or two) but will not need a pacemaker, and meds seem to be doing their thing. It’s...
by Ken | Mar 16, 2024 | Chronicles, Parkview
Across the street from us is Linda, our cat-lady neighbor, and next to her is an empty lot where an abandoned house was torn down some years ago. The deer like to hang out there, mostly ignoring those who walk by. On the other side of the lot is (was) a house with...
by Ken | May 12, 2019 | Business & Work, Chronicles, Everyday Life, Family & Personal, Games & Gaming, Parkview
Working up to my 50th birthday, I decided to stop digitizing the rest of my old files — if anything was that important, I would have done it by now. It’s not a lot, just enough to add to the filing cabinet, which uses far less drawers worth of stuff than...
by Ken | Nov 21, 2014 | Chronicles, Everyday Life, Family & Personal, Parkview
That’s what the news was calling the nation-wide pre-winter storms, and the news has been on almost constantly for the last four days. I can only laugh. The images and time-lapse of the front moving in were amazing, the amount of snow record-breaking...
by Ken | Jul 23, 2014 | Everyday Life, Family & Personal, Parkview
Last Sunday, I had a party, “Ken’s Summer Backyard Get-Together Luau Party Bash Shindig”. The description: “Kinda like Christmas in July, but the presents are food and good company. A holiday for framily, facebook friends, business associates,...
by Ken | Oct 27, 2013 | Parkview
Just planted four cloves, barely under the dirt and covered by a thick layer of used guinea pig shavings. As per a friend’s advice (Russell, the father-in-law of the current head of my lodge, and a WWII vet), I meant to plant them closer to Columbus Day, but got...