Male Pattern Blindness

 I don’t always notice things, I admit. Or, rather, I may not always notice things that others notice, such as, perhaps, my wife.

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Tagged, and ‘taggering to the post

I was tagged a while back: “… write a blog with 10 weird, random, facts, habits or goals about yourself ….” Twice. I even jotted down some notes but it has taken too dang long for them to find electricity. Here goes:

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The Steadfastness of Mom-Dog

Last weekend we were up in the foothills of the Sierras, visiting some of the little Gold Country towns connected by highway 49, named for the miners who arrived there a century and a half ago, hoping to strike it rich.

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Damn Damn Damn!

I just wasted an hour I could barely afford to spend crafting a post for this blog and WordPress ate it — the whole thing, without a trace!

I was logged in the whole time — I shouldn’t have trusted composing here. For a year and a half I’ve composed in MS Word just to take no chances since this happened once when I first joined, only this time I was in a hurry so wrote it quick, hit post and zwoop, it disappeared, gone — urk! Frantically hitting back back back to see if I could recover, copy and save to Word, but no, it’s gone. Arg!

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Hillary Clinton (and Ron Paul)

First of all, I like Hillary Clinton. I do not like her as much now as I did half a year ago, but underneath the me-first attitude is a politician whose principles I generally agree with and respect.

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