No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

Around getting caught up with some Noreascon 4 stuff this weekend, we went to the movies twice. We saw Under the Tuscan Sun (a mostly cha...

Jim and I were up in Massachusetts attending Jim's brother Bill's wedding: (from left) Laurie, Leslie, Jim, Bill, Heather, Bill and...

I had a much better time than I expected to at Torcon. Due to work and way too much traveling the rest of the fall, we arrived Thursday aft...

Yay! She wound up with her Associate's degree from ITT Tech in Computer Technology - Hardware.

It's worse, and I have Confluence and bunches of other things to worry about... Anyway, to briefly amuse myself, I took the "What S...

Well, I got my cholesterol retest results today. In three months, my total cholesterol went from 253 to 215, and triglycerides went from 270...

I may not have noted it here, but I had a check-up in March that included the report that I have really high cholesterol. How high? Don...

I love those online quizzes, and read about a doozy over on theonering.net . It's something of The Ultimate Geek Test . I scored a 37....

I've been fighting writers block (or not) for most of my adult life. I've been writing fiction since I was a child. I collected a ...

I've been thinking about writing this for a couple of months, and finally finished it today. I posted a link to this essay on TheOneRin...

Back in early March, Jim wrote a very good letter to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on the history of US-France relations. Unfortunately, at ...

The folk(s) over at uggabugga (thanks to Leslie Turek for linking to that one!) found even more unbelievable quotes from my (gulp) senator...

[[When I get on a roll...]] Dear folks, I cannot comprehend a greater oxymoron in this day than "gay" and "Republican." ...

I adapted the letter I wrote to Santorum, and it was published in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/le...

Yes, he's (gulp) my senator. In fact, he grew up about three miles from where I live now, a fact that does not surprise me at all, give...

Ohhhh , the indignity of it all! Just today at work, I complained to co-workers that no one has any good April Fools Day jokes anymore. The...

OK, for the second time in 34 years, I'm missing part of the Oscars on Sunday. Thank goodness for recorders! But, it will be weird to ...

I read the books back in '75, saw the first movie in '84, but didn't see the Sci Fi Channel miniseries remake until just now. Th...

Yes, Boskone happened in Boston for the first time since 1987. There were either one or two fire alarms, but the hotel didn't take them...

I've been to see The Two Towers four times (so far). It's a glorious movie, but in order to see the movie, you have to see way too...