Thank goodness I'm married to the one person in the world, who at the edge of apocalype - if such would occur - would stay calm and make it all better. Her beautiful Art Deco (Nouveau? Somewhere in there) teakettle caught fire on the stove. She used a whole fire extinguisher to put it out. Until replaced (at the Factory Outlet Mall in Niagara Falls where we got it), we can use MY TEAKETTLE. That's right mow-foes -...

I'm suffering from withdrawl ... my addiction - Hobowars - is offline now for almost 24 hours. The walls are closing in on me. I have the urge to go to WalMart to steal a shopping cart. I want to scavenge for pop cans, and beat up other bums just for the experience. What has become of me?

I kinda celebrate Chinese New Year anyway, but here's the scoop. This was the first year we watched th ball come down (TImes Square) via the web (EarthCam) instead of television. It was much more like being there, without all the comentating and news flashes, and going from local to NYC and back or splitscreen. Then we went to bed ... (crash) Otherwise a very quiet evening; Merry had a migrane and we had no guests...

After all the miscellaneous snow and salting complaints in the complex died out, of course having been almost exclusively from the exact lot of people who do usual complaining, I have made a half-serious resolution to write ... The Fisher Park Chronicles (I thought of calling it the Chronicles of Tardia, but the ghost and or estate of C.S.Lewis would haunt me with bumps in the night, or worse yet, lawyers.) The...

Aunt Bobbie and cousin Bink (Frank III) couldn't make it for the Holidays, but after an early Wigilia (so Mer's parents could get home before dark in potentially inclement weather), we called them and also rang up my Dad and Kathy, wishing him a happy 70th birthday (thought 70 was a few years from now, but times slip past ...). Earlier, Moo, after hours of hairpulling and with the help of phone tech support, we...

Merry and I went to the Chamber of Comerce "Member Appreciation Luncheon" today, and the presentation was about "Etiquette" for improving business. Unfortunately, it was all about which fork to use, what food not to order, and where to put your napkin and when. It was also suggested that you shake a woman's hand web-to-web instead of grasping the finger, which I always felt was more respectfully genteel and less...

"American Isolationism and Globalist Reality" http://kentropolis.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=171

Dear Abby: Out of the blue this morning, my wife starting talking about firewall breaching, forced log-offs, DOS attacks and "chat tunnels" - I never even heard of that last one. And recently, I caught her hunting down the physical location of IP addresses based on recent traffic to her site. Adn now she wants to go wireless on her laptop so she can "have some fun" on other people's networks. Should I be concerned?...

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