I was driving home from work this afternoon, following behind a large truck heavily loaded with firewood.  It was already cut into fireplace lengths, but not split.  We were on a highway, so we were driving about 55mph.  There was one vehicle between that truck and my car, and I was nervous about how closely [...]

Since Raul Castro has taken over running Cuba from Fidel Castro, some pretty significant changes have been happening in Cuba; all of them good.  Raul Castro lifted restrictions on Cubans owning computers and mobile phones, and signed the UN human rights accords.  He has also authorized payments of productivity bonuses to workers, and he is going to try [...]

I recently bought a small laptop computer, hoping that I could take it on the road with me and get onto the Internet using the free wifi hotspots I’ve been hearing about.  I’ve been seeing McDonald’s restaurants and Panera Bread restaurants with big signs on their windows “free wifi” and I thought that I’d like [...]

I would never have expected in a million years for tonight’s scene to happen. My significant other came home from work and announced that he had an Elks meeting tonight and he needed to take a nap until about 6pm.
Much to my surprise, as he was walking out the door to go to the meeting [...]