Nina is back home
…. and I am SO glad. Apparently I (and about agazillion husbands with me, I am sure…. come on, admit it!) am not made to live on my own. Too quiet, nobody to complain to, too much hassle of collecting all that dirty laundry and dishes… and then too much work to redistribute them all…. [...]

I could do without computers
Really, although I’ve been in the ‘computing business’ since 1978 and involved with PC’s (or microcomputers as they were called back then) before that, I could very often well do without the bloody things. We’ve all been there. A perfectly fine and proper working (Windows) PC suddenly won’t start in the morning. Eerie DOS error messages [...]

Grumpy Tales
My good friend Miguel often calls me grumpy, a name that until recently I myself attached to quite a few people older than me. Since I am rapidly growing older myself, or so it seems of late, I guess I’m as grumpy as the next old guy. That is if you think 57 is old. [...]

Getting on……
….. in years, that is. Turning 57 today! There were times that I thought 57 was ANCIENT. Actually, I still think so… LOL! I’d rather be thirty again, know what I know now and live according to it. Alas,that’s not the case for any of us. So we get wiser when it doesn’t matter much anymore. We [...]

I should learn to turn down people
Actually, I’ve done a training course on similar things, way back when. Something about ‘Monkeys on your Shoulders’.  Trouble is, I can’t say NO to people. So I take on more work than I can handle… almost daily. That’s also intensified by the fact that I like so many things and CAN DO so many [...]