A few months ago, my daughter came to me with an idea. She has been living with us for several years; most of the basement is her sleeping and work area. She wanted to buy a Spyder motorcycle to ride with us, but didn’t want to leave it outside, especially in the winter. Her idea […]

The title of the newsletter says it all. The reasons why are numerous. And it goes well beyond the worry about AI coming to life and killing all humanity, like in Science Fiction. My first concern is a big one. One I see when I use a search engine. Toward the bottom, the notation: AI

We are back from our Tucson vacation. Sixteen busy days of fun and a few challenges, including, thanks to the brutally hot weather, even for Arizona, a change to our travel plans, which I’ll explain later. The day before we left, a snowstorm hit the Colorado Front Range. The first snow we’d had in nearly

I should retire more often! Last month, I mentioned I had officially retired from the working world, and I received numerous emails congratulating me. Thanks so much to everyone who reached out. My previous employer also sent me congratulations and a couple of gifts, including a pretty dove planter with a succulent. It will join

Big news for me this month. I have officially retired from working as an IT Tech and System Admin. I didnt perform a lot of IT work in 2025 for Miles Technology, and after much reflection and discussions with my family, I decided to hang it up for good. This will allow me to work

Happy New Year to everyone. Hopefully, you had time off with family and friends over the holidays. We had our usual Christmas Eve dinner at my in-laws. And Kim, Dakota, the dogs, and I enjoyed Christmas Day at home. And we had our normal quiet New Year’s Eve. We did play miniature golf on New

2025 was an unusual year for my family and me. Kim was tied up with a work project all year, which limited what we could do when it came to traveling. We vacationed in Deadwood, South Dakota, and drove to a book event in Branson, Missouri. But not much else. Our hope she’ll be free

This month will be a shorter than normal newsletter, as I had to put it together quickly. I’ve been working feverously to finish the last draft of Mayhem in Music City before sending it off to my editor. An lo and behold, I emailed the draft to Tina last Thursday. I still have a faint

I’ve made a slight change to the schedule for sending out my newsletter. In the past I normally would mail it out on the first Monday or Tuesday of the month. Since this is a busy time for email newsletters, I’m going to push this back to the second Monday or Tuesday of the month

The past several weeks around our neigborhood has been noisy. First it was Google Fiber going into the ground on the streets outside our home. Then it was a sidewalk improvement project, where old sidewalks were jackhammered and then ripped out of the ground. New cement laid for the sidewalks. When the sidewalks were torn