Yup. This weekend I got a ticket for making an illegal right on red.
Actually, let me clarify: I got a ticket because the city of Blue Springs is hurting for money, and they have created many poorly marked illegal-right-on-red “ticket traps”, where the po-pos wait for anyone who makes the ghastly mistake of turning right [...]
Beth has satellite television, which is one of the many things I love about her. (Beth- now you know it, I’m only your friend because you have cable. The truth had to come out sooner or later! Anyway, this weekend I watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel about Terry Wallis, an Arkansas [...]
On Friday night, I arrived at Beth’s house and discovered five affectionate felines who all wanted attention. The cats are incredibly sweet, and I’m happy to give them the attention they desire, but they don’t seem to understand that my two hands cannot simultaneously spoil five cats. That’s certainly a good problem [...]
It’s amazing how so much can happen in such a short period of time! I had a blast with Beth’s cats and bunnies this weekend. I expected a reasonably quiet weekend, but I got the exact opposite! Stay tuned… for SEO purposes, I’ll be recounting this weekend in a series of short posts.
It’s been a busy, busy day. This weekend I will be house- and pet-sitting for my friend Beth. Beth is a student and will be on “spring break” this weekend, so I will be taking care of her cats and rabbits. I know it will be tons of fun, but before I go over there [...]
Tonight I have writer’s block.
What an ironic world we live in! One day I write about my abundance of writing ideas, and the next day I have nothing to say. I can’t help but think that somewhere God is laughing at me. I sure hope so, because I’m really a very ridiculous [...]
To be a writer is a challenging job in every way. It sounds easy – just sit down and write – and it is, but it’s not. Short stories – the kind we all turned in throughout high school – are fairly easy to crank out, although it’s a bit more work to ensure they [...]
Lately I’ve been struggling to blog. This is quite peculiar to me, as I have blogged for two years, but I guess I’m just out of habit. It’s frustrating, because I want to maintain a successful blog – I guess I’ve just finally lost interest in it.
Plus, for the first time in [...]
So I stumbled across this article, which discusses the major flaw in Amtrak’s ticket system. Unlike airline tickets, Amtrak tickets cannot be replaced. If your Amtrak ticket is lost or stolen, tough luck, because Amtrak cannot replace that ticket – unless, of course, you pay for another one. Needless to say, Amtrak [...]
It’s Sunday, and for me that means church. Today I went to church with my parents, which was definitely… an experience.
I witnessed two different events, different in every way, but equally alarming.
First, I watched a grandmother disciplining her grandkids. All three of them, all girls, had been kind of teasing and tormenting each [...]