May 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, it took me five minutes to google her. she’s married, BUT NOT TO MARK! but they wrote “he’s just not that into you” together. so it’s nice that they’re still friends and can work together. she got married in 2005, to some...
May 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
of FREE ICE CREAM! my cold stone creamery coupon expires tonight and it’s just not gonna happen. oh well. my friend gary wrote and said i should march into baskin robbins with a printout of all of kevin’s knee woes and ask for a grace period…but now...
May 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
my $100,000 pyramid debacle – and it was a debacle – i talked about it thoroughly in “gracetalk #1” or maybe #2, i can’t remember. i really really need to have another show, and i think i should re-tell the tale because how many people...
May 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
i have accomplished many many things already this morning. this, despite my current BANGS CRISIS. christine called me this morning and said “how are your bangs?” and i said “huh? what? what are you talking about?” yesterday evening i left her...
May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
i was just thinking about getting comments on the site again after that drought of, oh, about the entire length of the existence of this website, roughly four years. i was thinking that it was funny that even though comments are now ALLOWED because the hordes of evil...
May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
harvey korman died today. very sad. he was a really funny man. i bet he was a very nice person, too. i never met him, i never saw him in person. vikki lawrence, however…she was my celebrity partner on “100,000 pyramid” many years ago. she...
May 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
bev gave me a fabulous barack obama book for my birthday. it’s not BY barack obama, it’s ABOUT him, and it has lots of photos in it which makes it quite great. it even includes a photo of the obamas’ wedding. i got way too many gifts for my...
May 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
we went to mario’s for dinner last night and i brought my sweater in case it was cold. i brought my sweater into the restaurant and DISTINCTLY REMEMBER PUTTING IT ON THE BACK OF THE CHAIR. we got home later and i remembered that i’d left the sweater there....
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
maybe you’ve heard about hillary clinton’s statement about primaries running into june, where she . it’s all over the place, if you’re an obsessive primary-watcher like me. She defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday...
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
i thought that it was fitting and appropriate that kevin and i spent about 45 minutes searching everywhere for my car keys. i kept opening the same drawer over and over again looking for them. at least finally kevin found them in HIS coat pocket.
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
my brother has a big blue van – not a minivan, a BIG van – and today i had to drive it. i had to drive it on the highway, i had to drive it on the part of the highway that is under renovation and there’s this one part that has a concrete wall on one...
May 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
bob dylan was also born today. i’m sure that every year i find this out then promptly forget about it again. bob and i will probably spend the day doing very different activities. mine is going to involve quite a bit of cleaning out the garage and moving stuff,...
May 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
i should be helping mom and dad pack boxes RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE. but first, a few moments of peace and quiet. except honey the cat is rubbing up against the computer and occasionally tries to walk across the keys which isn’t so great for the typing. the...
May 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
that’s what i’ve been doing. saturday night we got on a bus and headed to st. louis to see the JERSEY BOYS, playing at the fox theater. the play was outstanding, thrilling, after it was over i couldn’t decide if i wanted to go out and buy the...
May 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
no time for posting anything today. too busy painting painting painting. things are a little better now. there’s a corner of the living room that is fit to live in, isn’t covered with any kind of patching dust. christine CALLED ME this morning, which is...
May 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok, you probably don’t remember this, but way back in 2004, when i started writing this, i had a BIG ISSUE with SPAM COMMENTS. i was suddenly getting BAZILLIONS of comments which were actually ads – for TEXAS HOLDEM, plus all kinds of online gambling,...
May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
we’re sitting here quietly on the couch in our completely and totally pulled-apart house, window partially finished, large prints lying against the couch which is piled on top of itself, boxes and tools and debris of all kinds everywhere. kevin is reading a...
May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
christine ASSURES me that these photos are going to get bigger somehow. i can’t figure out how to make them bigger. she said to post them now anyway, so i am, with reservations. this shows kevin getting winnie the cat out of the crawl space after he managed to...
May 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
i need a vacation after my weekend. we roared up to sterling IL on friday, picked up kevin’s parents, and drove to the Sauk Valley Community College, where kevin received his ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR award. it was presented during the graduation ceremony, which i...
May 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
i have to go very soon, but the doctor FINALLY CALLED about my back. no nerve pinching is going on, which is excellent. but there’s some bulging between a few of the disks, but i don’t have to have surgery which is VERY GOOD NEWS. no packing or painting...
May 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
and the painting continues. yesterday mom and i finished a first coat of the LONG hallway and this morning she’s coming over to help with the second coat. then i’m going to help her with her packing. i did take the time this morning to upload some photos....
May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
christine has been working on it today, paolo in LA is now trying to make the compressed videos better, things are HAPPENING. i’m uploading photos as i type. anyway, this isn’t EXACTLY how it’s going to look. but you get the general idea. maybe you...
May 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
i woke up at 6:30 this morning and HAD TO GET OUT OF BED. DID OBAMA WIN INDIANA? nope. damn. i just wanted him to BEAT hillary. but even though she eked out a tiny little victory in indiana at least he TROUNCED her in north carolina. this is from a story about...
May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
ok i guess it’s not that late; it’s 10:44 p.m. but it feels like about one a.m. because of all the exertion today. i was looking forward to going to mom and dad’s house to help pack instead of staying here and painting, but now i long to paint instead. i guess what i...
May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
see how crazy things are around here, i totally forgot to post that exciting announcement! no, the alumnus of the year isn’t me. it’s KEVIN. the very first college he went to called him last week to say that he was “head and shoulders” above...
May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
and if you see christine today, please CONGRATULATE HER on a JOB WELL DONE! many many changes, plus more to come. she figured out all kinds of things, like how to get all the archived stuff with photos to this new site, even though it’s something that has been...
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
giving the room a second coat of edging was fine. it took about an hour. no problem. but then i spent 15 minutes using the roller, which went really fast, but then i was in severe pain for a few hours afterwards. randy and i went to target right after i stopped...
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
today is dad’s birthday; we were going to join him and mom for lunch at a restaurant in the little town of salisbury, but we had too much to do. hopefully they’ll have a lovely time; the Official Birthday Celebration will be tomorrow night. dad wanted to come over to...
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
you think of a hole in the wall as a divey little restaurant that serves unexpectedly great food, or an intimate bar that not a lot of people know about. around here, it is an actual HOLE IN THE WALL. not a little hole, a BIG hole. on wednesday afternoon kevin decided...
May 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
finally FINALLY here are some photos of the roof work on saturday. jim was sawing and sawing the jagged edge of roof. because he was crouched like this for quite a few hours, i think he was pretty stiff and sore when he finished. and of course he finished, because...
