Mostly stories about humorous or interesting things that have happened to me.
Have you ever been listening to Piano Man by Billy Joel and wondering exactly what a Real Estate Novelist is, or how Paul can be one? Turns out there is no such thing as a real estate novelist. He is just a real estate broker who’s been working on a novel for a long time. I can identify with Paul on that one but you would have to call me an Electronics Technician Novelist. A lot of times I don’t…
I stared at the computer screen: OPEN 1,8,15,”S:RH05″:CLOSE 1| It was the fall of 1985 and I was sitting in my high school computer lab. There were 20 Commodore PET computers (see featured image) in the lab all sitting on a long table in the middle of the room. 10 of the computers were on one side facing 10 other computers on the other side so that it formed two rows. I was on the right hand side at the…
My Dad is a great guy. He stuck around my whole life. He taught me how to be a responsible adult. He even helped me out a lot this hell year of medical issues. So I’m trying to find a nice way to say what I’m about to say. I can’t think of a nice way, so I’ll just say it. My Dad is a cheapskate. He puts in maximum effort in order to save a minimum amount on something….
My blogging buddy Kristine at Adulting In Progress recently did a post about guilty pleasures. Her’s were reality TV shows. I don’t watch a lot of reality TV shows but it got me thinking about the ones I do watch. The BIG THREE are Survivor, Big Brother, and Amazing Race. I cut my teeth on Survivor when I started watching the second season. I haven’t missed a season since and even bought the DVDs of the first season so I…
I already posted about the first time I wrote a story. This is about the second time I tried that. In my younger days I was enamored with Stephen King and his books. I loved them and read them all. I wanted to write like Stephen King and tell his kind of stories. I attempted to do that on several occasions but the tales never materialized the way I thought they would and I eventually abandoned them. In 1987 when…
Would it surprise you to find out I stabbed a person? It’s true. I did. I’m not proud of it but I can’t deny it happened. No, I didn’t impale him on a samurai sword after he brutally raped and sodomized another guy. My choice of weapon wasn’t quite as lethal, but it did pack a punch, or shoud I say puncture? Maybe I should give you a little context here. I was a sophomore in high school (that’s grade…
When I was a child my parents had a subscription to those Reader’s Digest magazines. Remember those? They were little book sized magazines with all types of articles in them. They always ended up on a shelf next to the toilet in our bathroom. So while I did my business, I would often leaf through them. Most of the articles didn’t interest me but some of the stories did. Of particular interest to me was the section called Humor in…
In a few days it will be July 4th, American Independence Day, and that reminded me of a story. I recently posted another story about friends I met through a local BBS. This is another tale from the BBS. But first, I’m writing this on July 1st, which is Canada Day. A few of my few readers are Canadians. So I’d like to acknowledge them. OK, back to this American tale. It was 1996 in Jacksonville, FL and the BBS…
For this one you are going to have to think back to a certain time. A time when there were no cell phones with cameras on them. A time when there were no digital cameras at all, even the ones in which you inserted a 3.5″ floppy disk. Back to the time when you actually had to take the film from the camera to a photo shop to have it developed. You remember? Good. All the millennials will have to…
I’ve hit a bit of a writer’s block here. I’ve got like eleventybillion (just an estimate) unfinished drafts that I can’t seem to complete. Usually when this happens I go to my fall back 642 things to write about series, but I can’t even get the ball rolling on one of those. My recent health issues have consumed a lot of my time and have also scrambled my brain somewhat. So I’ve decided to take the lazy way out. I’ve…