Libertine

While reading a message board the other day, I saw a thread about New Year’s resolutions and rolled my eyes. My first thought was that nearly everyone would resolve to “lose weight” in 2010, as that particular resolution is typical and ubiquitous. There’s absolutely no originality about it at all. Sure enough, I was right. [...]

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I looked at my latest car payment statement.  I only owe $660 more on my car, so I’ll be finally free of car payments by the beginning of the year.  It’s been a long time since I’ve not owed on a car and I’m looking forward to having more money at my disposal for other [...]

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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve considered the last four months of the year as “the holiday season”.   Starting with Labor Day, the holiday season includes Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and ends on New Year’s Day. Despite the fact that the beginning of September also meant the beginning of a new school year, I [...]

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I live very close to a set of railroad tracks, which runs along the back of my property and passes close to the eastern entrance of my street. I am close enough to the tracks that if a train passes at night, I can look out my kitchen windows and see the lights from the [...]

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When I was a kid, the towns I lived in always made a big production out of the Fourth of July.   There were outdoor festivals, public and private barbecues, parades, and the town always sponsored a fireworks celebration, usually held at the high school football stadium. When I was in high school, I was [...]

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Nowadays, many types of businesses have drive-through services,  There are the ubiquitous fast-food drive-throughs, with some even having double drive-through lanes on both sides of the building.  I’ve seen drive-throughs for banks, pharmacies, various bill-paying venues (water, electric, etc), dry cleaning, and so on. I’ve even read about drive-through funeral homes!  Call me old fashioned, [...]

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“The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own [...]

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It’s amazing how time increasingly flies the older you get.  I remember when I was a kid, it seemed like I had to wait forever for Christmas and my birthday to arrive.   I was fortunate that my birthday and Christmas were at opposite ends of the year, which made the waits somewhat more bearable, [...]

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I visited the Time Magazine website today, where they had a list of who they considered to be the 100 most influential people in the world.  The list was broken down into several categories. Michelle Obama made the list, which isn’t surprising, considering who she married to.   Having the ear of the President of the [...]

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I’ve been in a blogging funk for the last several days and don’t feel particularly inspired to write now, but I thought I’d try to cobble something together so people don’t think I’ve fallen off the face of the Earth. We’d been having a nice mild spring for a month, with temperatures in the 50s [...]

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