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Barbecue Deja VuBack in the days I like to call the “adolescence of my second childhood,” I dated a man whose hobby was competitive barbecuing and I became a barbecue groupie. Today, when I turned on the television and began channel surfing, I ran across a broadcast of the Kansas City American Royal Barbecue Championship. I still have the sweatshirt I got… click here to continue January, 17th, 2010 Bad Day—Good DayYesterday was a very long day. I monitored Floyd’s health conditions, with the assistance of an advice nurse on the phone, until early evening. Then, because his dizziness and weakness had shown little improvement, I called his daughter, who came over. She and I and an Emergency Room doctor on the phone, decided he should be checked at Emergency. His… click here to continue January, 15th, 2010 Outsmarting MyselfFor some time now I’ve been telling myself I’m going to sort and reorganize my kitchen plastic containers and discard any that don’t have matching lids, as well as any lids without containers. Some of my old Tupperware seals so well that opening the lids is difficult for my arthritic hands. Those I can donate to Goodwill. So I… click here to continue January, 13th, 2010 Cable TelevisionI haven’t given it much thought until recently, but I’m wondering why we have numerous telephone companies and internet providers to choose from, and only one cable television service. Our monthly bill keeps going up and the service gets worse. This evening the picture has varied for the last couple of hours from a jumbled jigsaw to a message: “One… click here to continue January, 11th, 2010 More Tekkie TroublesThe new TV has a great picture, but we still can’t find a place to plug in the earphones or get the Closed Captioning to work. I went back to the store today and conferred with two salesmen in the home electronics department, but it was essentially a wasted trip. I did learn that not all television sets have a… click here to continue January, 09th, 2010 Daunting BirthdaysMy birthdays are not the only ones in my life that affect me. Today is the 46th birthday of my youngest. His only sibling, my daughter, is 56 and will be 57 later this year. Somehow that makes me feel pretty old. But I’ll get over it. We made the jump to HD TV today, at least in the living… click here to continue January, 07th, 2010 High Tech? How About Medium?Well, it took this computer five days to figure out what the date is. I had to type it in the first four days of this year. I doubt that this household will ever become really high-tech, at our ages we’ll settle for medium. We bought a flat screen HD TV today with a separate VCR/DVD player. My son-in-law will… click here to continue January, 05th, 2010 |