I’m used to power outages. Both here and at previous houses that I’ve lived in. At the moment my computer and TV went off I naturally assumed that, once again, I’d be dealing with a power outage. But I immediately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of those things that you’re glad was only something stupid you did that you could easily rectify. But, there was that slight panic, when the car wouldn’t start, that images of having to buy a new car[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know, I know. Despite my aching back I should have finished clearing my mom’s driveway yesterday. I should have expected the unshoveled snow to ice up and harden. Which it did. And if I thought my back was hurting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not taking a shot at the weather man here. Yeah they do get sort of excited when there’s severe weather, and I know there are times when they predict a big storm or in the winter a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Really, except for a dusting of snow a month ago we haven’t had any frozen precipitation yet, until today. It’s so unseasonably. We need a good snow fall every winter, it helps to keep down the insect population in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, have I really seen “It’s a Wonderful Life” now, 39 times? Well, NBC has owned exclusive rights to the film, airing it every Christmas Eve, since 1993. I’m sure I’ve watched it every year so that would mean I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know exactly what happened, that weekend in February of 2001, but my biggest problem with this company wasn’t specifically that they almost went out of business (after I moved with everything I owned from Kansas City to Philadelphia,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess I could go over all the stuff that happened to me at Hallmark, because I didn’t leave, (both good and bad), but that could lead to a lengthy post. I’ll just add this. In 1997 I got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After I left Hasbro in 1989 I still had a lot of friends working there. But, with every acquisition of another toy company, (Kenner, Parker Brothers, Milton Bradley, Tonka, etc…) there were numbers of redundant employees, so Hasbro would just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I normally take time off around the Christmas and New Years holidays, to kind of “wind down” at the end of a year, but I had to take most of these days in the last two weeks of 2020 or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…