It’s a Tuesday night here in rural Douglas County. Kind of funny, I listen to that in my own head and I hear Garrison Keillor’s voice. Look it up. He had a pretty good radio show that held a large audience for radio for years in an era that was dominated by television. “…and all …
April 2018 archive
Apr 09
Day 19,927
Monday night here in rural Douglas County, and Lisa and I are here upstairs with the dogs. Gracie went into the campus to get a little work done, and Dane went to bed after having spent the day home with another bug bout. Seems like the bugs have been winning. I went and had my …
Apr 08
Day 19,926
Hey kids, Grampa Bob here with an update on what I got done on this day, April 8, 2018. The answer is, “not much”. Seriously, though, we went to late Mass this morning and got home shortly after noon. I started rooting around the television guide for info about the Masters’ golf tournament, then, after …
Apr 07
Day 19,925
Hey, future grandkids of mine, and anybody else interested enough to read my words (thanks!). It’s been a fun day. Dane and I went over to see the Spielberg-produced “Ready Player One”, based on the Ernest Cline book. I had read the book, Dane had not. Although I recognized multiple departures from the book, I …
Apr 06
Day 19,924
Hey gang, old fat grampa Bob here again. I have always had an interest in the topic of fantasy worlds, from when I was very young and captivated by the silliness of the worlds created by Dr. Seuss, or later, in my teenage years when I discovered the Lord of the Rings, the Hyperborean Age …
Apr 05
Day 19,923
Schadenfreude. I’ve always kind of liked that word. It’s a German word as if you couldn’t tell. I recall (and I paraphrase) a quote from John Fugelsang, ” I derive pleasure from the discomfort of people that don’t know the definition of the word ‘Schadenfreude’”. In reality, the word means “pleasure derived by someone from …
Apr 04
Day 19,922
In recent weeks, there have been a number of very tragic events, from the brutal attack and murder of seventeen high school students and teachers in Florida, to an attack at the Youtube headquarters yesterday that thankfully, led to the death of the shooter who apparently took her own life after shooting and wounding four …
Apr 03
Day 19,921
I now enter the second year of blogging. I wonder where this will take me? I do wonder sometimes who else reads my blog. I don’t receive a lot of comments, but that is probably due to the fact that I don’t solicit a lot of commentaries. I could probably offer up a few more …
Apr 02
Day 19,920
OK, so here it is folks… I’ve successfully written 365 blog updates over the course of the last year. For me, this is a pretty significant achievement in the world of sticking to something and trying to create a good habit. There have been times that I didn’t have much to say. Some might posit …
Apr 01
Day 19,919
Hey gang, it’s Easter, and I hope you guys had a great day, with the appropriate balance of gratitude, religious fervor, and chocolate bunnies. Yeah, that may have sounded a lot funnier in my head. I’m a practicing Christian, and if I practiced harder, I might be able to get it right. My wife is a …