Lord of the Castle

I realize that I have not written very much this week, but… I doing quite a bit of work behind the scenes on this blog. My dissatisfaction with this blog after looking at my oldest daughter’s blog continues. I had to ask myself, “Do I really want to continue to write what amounts to short [...]

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My wife loves watching movies. Me…not so much. Well, that’s not entirely true. I like watching GOOD movies. But so many of them aren’t very good… In my opinion… And while I am watching one of those “it’s oh-kay” movies, my preoccupation with time starts rearing its ugly head and I get restless. I try, but [...]

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It may sound strange, coming from a blogger, but I have not been a huge fan of technology. We went several years without a television in our home. When we did get one, TV time was strictly limited. Basically, for most of my children’s lives, we used the television to watch videos. During his childhood, [...]

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This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have been having a long distance relationship for more than two years. Actually, I am in several simultaneously. It so much more difficult to communicate. I tell you that it is SO much better when you are face to face… But, what other [...]

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This stage of being a parent is…how shall I put this…challenging. When my children were younger, they had to listen to me…or else! Now that they are launching out on their own, I have to watch them make mistakes. Let me tell you, it is highly overrated! I get no pleasure out of it, no [...]

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I don’t know if you noticed, but I have changed the look of this blog. I have moved things around, changed font sizes, increased the writing area while decreasing the sidebars. It is not as easy as it sounds because it is all written in HTML code. I do not know HTML. However, I am [...]

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I saw it and I still can’t believe it! I mean I was there… It happened to me… and I am still having a hard time believing that it actually happened. This is a picture of the overflow hole in our bathroom sink. (click on the pictures to see them better) This is a picture [...]

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Although I am getting better, I frequently suffer from missing tile syndrome. I first read about this psychological defect in “Happiness is a Serious Problem” by Dennis Prager. Imagine looking at a beautifully tiled ceiling. Now picture realizing that one tile is missing. My instinctive response is to find it and fix it! However, if I am not careful, that missing [...]

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As soon as we  leave our apartment complex and turn right to head east on the lightly traveled 133rd Street, we cross a main North-South street. On the north corner, a development of houses that sell for $500-750,000 begins and extends for the next 1/2 mile. Over that same 1/2 mile stretch on the south side of the street, there is another nice apartment complex on [...]

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I called the North Hollywood company to get the tracking number for my Toyota engine. It will be delivered to my work address next Monday. My mechanic is going to charge me $800 to replace the engine. However, he will charge the same amount to put in both and engine AND a transmission. With each passing [...]

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