Jack on August 15th, 2011

At least once a day, every day, Windows Explorer locks up. Not responding, “Windows is checking for a solution.” Of course it finds none. Click to close the task? Doesn’t work. Go to Task Manager to end the task–nope, won’t do it; it just hangs. The only solution, forced shutdown and reboot. Meanwhile, I keep [...]

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Jack on July 28th, 2011

A brief intermission while I set up a new computer. Upon my return, I will belatedly comment on the recent Norway bombing, the decline in rural population in America and will finally get to SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s 2011 Peace Proposal. Later, an update on the progress (proceeding ponderously slowly) toward a dream home in [...]

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Jack on July 2nd, 2011

Yes, still here and still hacking away at the spam comments. A road (too long to call it a driveway) is progressing nicely at the dream house site. Water line will go in next week, in the road. After that, the road can be surfaced. The local electric company, PNM, has staked their pole locations but [...]

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Jack on June 22nd, 2011

Last year we spent many months getting the old house ready to sell. Finally, after the first of the year, it went on the market and sold in 34 days. It looked like something on HGTV if I do say so myself. We moved in March and are settled in now for the duration of [...]

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Jack on February 23rd, 2010

The yard is looking more grassy green than snowy white now. It’s been a long time coming in this record breaking winter not of discontent as much as surprise. I thought my house had been relocated to Buffalo, Erie or some other such place. The most snow in a season since recordkeeping began for Washington, [...]

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Jack on December 5th, 2009

I really was going to get back to this blog sooner. Oh well. I could scarcely resist on this day. As the first snow of the season falls on the Northern Virginia area, other flakes fall as well. I refer to those exceptional narcissists named Salahi. Day after day, a new detail of their flaky self-aggrandizing [...]

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Jack on July 30th, 2009

Not today, mind you, but soon. Not a sabbatical, but I have been out of the blogging loop. Reference back to my “Scrooged” post. The physical went fine, the spiritual went fine, but there was another dimension I didn’t expect. But I am now ready to roll again. More coming soon and regularly again.

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Jack on May 23rd, 2009

OK, we are getting older. Still, objectively I think, the volume was louder. We went to see Angels and Demons yesterday in a local multiplex. The movie itself was fairly loud, while the previews were louder still. I found myself putting bits of tissue in my ears to muffle the sound. I used to go to [...]

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Jack on April 7th, 2009

The Vermont House joined the state’s senate in overriding the governor’s bill making gay marriage legal in Vermont. The Iowa supreme court recently made gay marriage legal there. Numerous states allow the use of medical marijuana and some have decriminalized the possession or use of small quantities of the recreational drug. An African-American man now [...]

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Jack on December 31st, 2008

Is it semantics or is there a difference between a goal and a (New Year’s)resolution? I’m not sure it matters, but I am sure that just as each flip of the monthly calendar page at the end of December begins a new year, each flip of the 365-day calendar begins a new day. In other [...]

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