Monthly Archives: November 2010

It’s the week before Christmas. It’s cold and snowy but  I have many errands to run, not the least of which is the annual journey to the post office with the boxes full of gifts for the out of town … Continue reading →

Not that it would be a long trip but still. Now you get to have long conversations with these systems that almost always end badly. The phone company information systems started it. It used to be you called for a … Continue reading →

Not to put too fine a point on it for you but it’s just a week in. I suffered and starved and made myself and everyone around me miserable last week. I gave up the cookies and candy, the heaping … Continue reading →

Buy me this new Volkswagen. More on that in a moment. I currently alternate my driving between two automobiles. One is a sort of downsized SUV called an Outlander. Mitsubishi makes it. You of World War 2 vintage may remember … Continue reading →

The battle? How to test toilets. In an ongoing effort to bring light to things better left in the dark I have done some ahem, homework on this important subject. I began by wondering if there was a reason that … Continue reading →

Every year there are one or two items that become must-haves. I typed in toys but I changed my mind. This goes far beyond the Cabbage patch doll craze of the eighties. This makes “Tickle me Elmo” look like ..child’s … Continue reading →

Kids in packs annoy and even sometimes I will admit, frighten me a little. You know what I am talking about. My parents would have called them hoodlums. They gather in groups like birds on a wire in front of … Continue reading →

For those of you who had heavy heads and foul tasting mouths yesterday morning I sympathize. I myself have no such problem. Maybe it’s part of getting older. Maybe I am just an old fart. But the idea of staying … Continue reading →

Now don’t get me wrong. 2005 had some good stuff going for it. But as a human being I remember the bad stuff with great clarity while the good stuff just seems to be sort of a fuzzy haze. And … Continue reading →

That’s right, the garden state’s acting  Governor, Richard J Codey has come up with a slogan contest to act as a catch phrase to communicate Jersey’s unique charm. Of course part of Jersey’s unique charm is that the previous governor … Continue reading →