Sorry, My LOL Smashed Your SUV

by | Apr 10, 2012 | Communication, Humor, Life

I have friends who text one another while sitting in the same room. I am not kidding. Now I admit that I text like a maniac. The texting plague infected me pretty early, considering that I’m an old guy. It happened when I figured out if I didn’t start texting I’d...

Only the Dead Can’t Text

by | Mar 30, 2012 | Communication, Humor, Life, Marriage

For two days I have been a ghost. I saw the world through a veil, and the world could not see me at all. I think it was less fun than any essay test or surgical procedure or first date I’ve ever experienced. Don’t let anyone fool you about being a ghost and watching...

The Iron Fist of Youth

by | Nov 10, 2011 | Humor, Life

I’m almost glad that I’ll be dead relatively soon. By “relatively” I mean a hell of a lot sooner than the kids shrieking through the grocery store, pawing the fruit roll-up boxes and licking apples that I might unknowingly purchase and eat....

? i cmpr u 2 smmr dy

by | Aug 1, 2011 | Entertainment, Humor, Writing

I am facing extinction. Technology-extinction, to be precise. I’m not incapable. I don’t fear computers; computers fear me. I program my VCR and I set up my wireless network at home. After a trip to Fry’s, I fiddle with a screwdriver for a while, and a PC appears on...