Collecting My Thoughts

  I watched some of Kash Patel's Senate questioning this morning and was surprised to hear that at least one Senator, a Democrat of cour...

The “Hard Fork” podcast released a bonus episode titled “Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod” on Tuesday, January 28, 202...

I don't like seeing the tech giants standing behind Trump at the inauguration, however, I suppose that's better than standing on his...

We received a post card yesterday from Home Warranty Division County Deed Records. Lots of numbers and looking very official, ID # and pin ...

  About a year ago I signed up for a database of abstracts/pdf of articles on Ben Sira/Sirach of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It...

What an amazing rise and list of achievements for Indian Americans. Kamala Harris, daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants; Usha Chiluku...

What an incredible week. Hostages were released to the arms of their family and country. Donald J. Trump is inaugurated for a 2nd term with ...

The weather warnings were accurate. I think it's about 4 degrees in Columbus, and probably worse east of us. I'm glad they moved the...

 Actually, that was yesterday. We decorated it the last week in November when Martti and Riitta were here.  Today was take a box up to the c...

Potter-mania is still with us. I never bought or read a Harry Potter book. My daughter used to stand in line to buy one when they came out, ...

Not a good mix. I decided (now that I can drive again) to go to Walmart after the gym and see if any of those snazzy CD/FM/AM clock radio pl...

I got my dual chamber leadless pacemaker implants yesterday. Smaller than a AAA battery. Home from the hospital in time to see the Buckeyes...

I changed my "page a day" horse calendar to JAN 7 today and looked at the quote for the 6th, "It is the quality of our work w...

If you are retired and receiving a public pension (like STRS or PERS in Ohio) you couldn't "double dip" and also get your soci...

I'm just catching up on some podcasts. Christmas Eve eve Hugh Hewitt (Dec. 23) was apoplectic over the news of Biden's clemency and ...

I'm baking a butternut squash today. Usually I peel it, but that's hard on the hands. "Winter squash are packed with lots of n...

January 2024 1. Looks like we were doing the same as this year--packing things up to take the VOA, Discovery Shop and library. Old clothes, ...

Your heart beats 100,000 times a day — that's roughly 35 million beats per year and 2.5 billion beats over the course of life. With each...

 Bob will have enjoyment for many evenings with his stash of Christmas reading.  10 Louise Penny and 5 Susan Elia MacNeal.

Our senior pastor at UALC, Steve Turnbull, has to give 7 sermons today, Christmas Eve.  This year an 11 a.m. service was added so that the p...