“Eat your vegetables,” they said. “Salad is good for you,” they said. These are the things I think about while sitting on the toilet. And over the past couple of days, I’ve had lots of time to think. Last Sunday, Susan and I had lunch at one of our favorite local sushi spots. Instead of my normal sushi I decided… read entire post

Last weekend marked the fifth annual meeting of the International Retro Computer Expo (formerly BoatFest) in Hurricane, West Virginia. For the fifth summer in a row I drove 1,000 miles from Oklahoma City to Hurricane to attend the event. Officially the event took place July 10-11, although the organizers got access to the building on Thursday which allowed people to… read entire post

I haven’t had much luck with dentists in my life. I didn’t visit the dentist often as a kid and had a couple o relatively unpleasant experiences as a young adult that I just decided to quit going. The last time I went to an actual dentist was, as we jokingly say, “in the 1900s.” This led to one of… read entire post

After roughly three years, we had our first AT&T internet outage. For what it’s worth, I had problems with Cox Cable about once a week — sometimes they were outages but more commonly it was just long periods (hours or days) of degraded service. It seems like multiple times a week I was contacting Cox’s technical support only to be… read entire post

Since people rarely read my entire blog posts I’ll start this one with a one sentence summary: while stealing a broken music keyboard from my neighbor’s trash pile I wrecked our eBike so badly I ended up at the doctor’s office and getting referred to leg wound care. The longer version is slightly funnier. Our story begins last weekend —… read entire post

I’m not too good to eat at a greasy spoon diner. I’ve had some great meals at places with wobbly tables and sticky salt and pepper shakers. Last week I had a fantastic burger at a hole in the wall restaurant so weird that I doubt we’ll be going back to anytime soon. Last weekend Susan and I were on… read entire post

Last week, Susan and I took a mini-vacation to Winstar Casino, located on the Oklahoma/Texas border. Winstar’s claim to fame is that it is the world’s largest casino. I don’t know if it has the most machines or the most table games, but at 400,000 square feet of floor space, I can attest that the casino is very, very large.… read entire post

Susan and I are both a little sore, but in a good way and for good reason as we’ve spent an hour every other night over the past two weeks working out at the YMCA. We’ve been members of the YMCA for a long time, since the kids played basketball there I think. We bought a family plan and go… read entire post