Life's Little Stories

Child of the 80’s/90’s

I stole this list from Babs… shocking how much one forgets from their childhood…
You Know You Grew Up In The 80’s or Early 90’s If:
1. You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “SIKE”
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the “Fresh Prince of Belair” and can do the”Carlton”
4. Girls [...]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Ugh. Everywhere I go I see Christmas trees. It’s not even thanksgiving yet and there’s already Christmas trees. Heck, they were putting them up the day before Halloween! Thanksgiving stuff is already on clearance at all the retail stores.
What is the world coming to?
Christmas used to be a magical time of [...]

Hellooooooooooo Nurse!

As all of you know, there’s been a big change in my life and I’m no longer the travelling road warrior. So, I felt that Redeyes and Rearview Mirrors was no longer an appropriate tagline for my blog. Over the years I’ve gotten a little older, a little wiser… I’ve had my good [...]

Life Decisions

In case anyone was wondering, I decided not to buy the truck.
In other news, a good friend of mine just told me that he and his wife of five years got divorced. I was a little shocked… I hadn’t talked to either of them in about six months, and hadn’t seen them in about [...]

The Powered Toothbrush

In this day and age of automated everything and power tools, I’ve noticed they finally introduced the relatively inexpensive power toothbrush. Does anyone use a power toothbrush? You know the ones that you flip a switch and the brushes start moving and rotating?
I bought one the other day for $3.99, plus tax, at [...]

What’s your kink?

Lately, it seems all we hear about anymore is how bolder kids are getting these days about sex.

Buying land…

I have recently been provided an opportunity to purchase two little parcels of land up in New Jersey. When I say little, I mean about 35 inches wide by about 100 inches long. That’s right, boys and girls, burial plots.
The phone call came about as my parents have just looked into [...]

Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

I’ve never owned a cuckoo clock before and I’m not sure why I wanted to have one all of the sudden. I set it up last week and have been letting it run. It’s a one day clock, which means you have to wind it everyday. My job isn’t very conducive to allowing it to run unchecked. I found a number of great resources online about cuckoo clocks. The problem is, I can’t find anywhere whether I should stop the clock when I travel, or let it run down.