Random Brain Droppings

  More news on the cardiac front for me. For those unlucky enough to stumble upon this post for the first time back on August 1 st 2018 my...

 For me anything that falls under the umbrella of “popular culture” is something I usually try and ignore. Whatever popular culture once was...

Last Friday about this time I was mentally preparing myself for the rough week that I knew was coming. It started Saturday with my wife and...

  Got hit with a toothache this morning and I've given up on trying to post anything this weekend. Going to take a long nap and hope my ...

     As usual for me, August brings nothing but endless yard work and long, hot humid days with me dreaming of cooler weather. That was the ...

One of my repeated topics for my mental offal is how I have seriously doubts as to whether human beings are an intelligent species. I...

Just a quick update. Had a cardiac ablation on October 11th to solve issues with things like heart flutter and ventricular tachycardia ...

Truly ugly   As usual did this in a rush, will proofread and correct later. Well, as weeks go this one was pure shit bordering on...

Several months ago, a Canadian guy I know from Facebook posted a question wanting to know which American president was worse, Georg...

Just finished up a week playing Mr. Mom while the wife was away on a business trip. While no metaphorical monkey wrench flew into the...

Been one of those weekends where I wasn't exactly sick but doing anything requiring movement or any real thinking was just to much tr...

Several years ago I read a short, nonfiction article written by a famous science fiction author about an encounter he had with ...

...The Dog Days of Summer Come to an End. There is something positively diabolical about the month of August for me. During my chil...

You don’t live around, and in all honesty once belong to the extreme end of the gun culture without having some basic understanding abo...

 (Author's note: This was my first attempt at nonfiction at the Helium.com writing site where I have been playing around with flash f...

 ...What would they talk about? War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...