Archive for January, 2011

Like most people I have a toaster of some kind. Mine is a toaster oven; I think we have a real toaster as well, but if so I haven’t seen it in years. revedavion.com via Compfight Whenever I want toast, I put it on a certain setting so that it’ll end up being just the […]

I often hear about this or that entertainer who has suddenly begun to wonder whether what they do is any good and then drops out and we never hear from them again, or it’s a very long time before they resurface. This often happens with musicians who find that they weren’t prepared for either the […]

When I was still a daily employee in my director’s role, I joined the local chapter of a national organization for my profession, which was patient account directors across the country. Locally, there were 8 meetings a year in Syracuse and one big 2-day conference in Alexandria Bay at the time. I wish I could […]

This morning we awoke to temperatures in the minus teens in the Syracuse area. It’s not necessarily uncommon for our temperatures to get that cold, but it’s rare. Last night on Twitter I was discussing the issue with a few people and it got around to the question of whether or not school would be […]

I go to one of the local health clubs that’s relatively close to where I live. I’ve been going since May, which really shocks everyone who knows me because they didn’t see it as being my style. What most of them didn’t know is that I actually belonged to a health club before, from 1988 […]