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 [...]

The mosquitoes have been particularly bad this season; I suspect it is a result of all of the rain we had a while back.  We’ve been trying to avoid going out during the mosquito feeding hours (sunrise and sunset) but they seem to be bad all day long the past couple of weeks.  One of [...]

Several years ago I bought a Lexmark X6170 all-in-one printer.  Naturally it came with a CD installation disk which I used to load the drivers onto my computer.  A few weeks ago I bought a new computer (YAY!) and could not find the installation disk.  No biggie (I thought) I can download the driver off [...]

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 [...]