I have a bum shoul­der.  Years ago, it ran­domly decided to seize up on me.  It was get­ting bet­ter, and then I was in a wreck.  Shortly there­after, I was unable to lift my arm above shoul­der level.  Sim­ply hold­ing my arms straight out to the sides was tor­ture.  The doc­tors told me I had […]

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Tomor­row, Alabama Sen­ate Bill No. 132 goes up for vote. Locals know it as the “Free the Hops” Bill, because of the non-profit grass­roots move­ment behind it. It’s a very big deal around here. A bill was intro­duced into both the House and the Sen­ate to raise the […]

I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who pointed my thoughts towards the stock mar­ket and pol­i­tics.  Now I see that the Dow was below 6500 on open­ing this morn­ing.  Con­ver­sa­tions keep pop­ping up lately cen­tered around job secu­rity, mar­ket forces, and how the sky is falling.  Addi­tion­ally, I actu­ally recently […]

It’s a busy day around here today, so this will be brief.  I have to do my nor­mal chores and pre­pare for Game Night.  Plus, it’s the Spousal Unit’s birth­day, so I need to stop by [place] and buy [gift] that he would have found if I bought ear­lier.  (Shhhh, it’s a secret.)  Also, the […]

Last week­end, we met to dis­cuss Invis­i­ble Mon­sters. Only five peo­ple showed up, but that was under­stand­able.  Sunday’s snow was mov­ing in, and a few peo­ple were sick as well.  We ate junk food while dis­cussing the new things we’d learned from the book about plas­tic surgery, sex change oper­a­tions, and parental abandonment.   […]