Month: January 2020

Truth? Beauty? Fit the Second

January 31, 2020 Herb 3
For the Mystery Blogger Award I was nominated for but haven’t actually done anything for and haven’t attempted to claim, Ben at Brothers’ Campfire, posted some interesting questions as part of it. The one I’m going to start trying to answer today Continue Reading[...]

Truth? Beauty? Fit the First

January 30, 2020 Herb 0
For the Mystery Blogger Award I was nominated for but haven’t actually done anything for and haven’t attempted to claim, Ben at Brothers’ Campfire, posted some interesting questions as part of it. The one I’m going to start trying to answer today Continue Reading[...]

Mystery Blogger Award

January 29, 2020 Herb 2
I was nominated for this award by Brothers’ Campfire and thank him for the intellectual challenge and opportunity. I’m not even sure what it means and there was no talk of cash prizes being given away. I wonder, though, if I have Continue Reading[...]

Security – Shmecurity

January 28, 2020 Herb 6
Well, not really. Security is a real pain, though. Some users on one of the sites I administer, Brothers Campfire, were having trouble with Google Chrome because his web address started with http: instead of https: and I had to find a Continue Reading[...]

Dumb Dog

January 27, 2020 Herb 6
IT’S A DOG’S LIFE A butcher is working, and really busy. He notices a dog in his shop and shoos him away. Later, he notices the dog is back again. He walks over to the dog, and notices it has a note Continue Reading[...]

Duck!

January 26, 2020 Herb 7
I originally posted this on one of the earlier incarnations of this blog on 06/23/09. I didn’t re-post it on that date here because I have rewritten a few lines of it. It was, in fact, called, “Duck.” When we lived at Continue Reading[...]

Tree Problems

January 24, 2020 Herb 2
TREE PROBLEMS A renowned plant pathologist was called in to determine why a group of trees in a particular forest were rapidly succumbing to some kind of disease. No sooner would one tree’s bark began to shrivel up and turn an ugly Continue Reading[...]

Trying Microsoft Edge

January 22, 2020 Herb 2
There are three tech sites that I receive newsletters from that I actually look at. You know, sometimes you sign up for just junk mail, well these sites are extremely helpful and if I have computer issues I check them first. They Continue Reading[...]

To Coffee

January 21, 2020 Herb 3
An Ode (Or rather, my feeble attempt at one.) Caffeine! Adrenaline! Adenosine!Epi–Epi–Epinephrine!Yay team! Rah-rah! Goooo Team Coffee! Getting excited is easy to doWhen you’ve had a cup or twoOr three or four or fiveWhich makes you feelYou’ve come alive! You say, perhaps, Continue Reading[...]

One Twenty Twenty Twenty

January 20, 2020 Herb 5
One Twenty Twenty Twenty I wonder some years, where the time went-yHow have I arrived in Twenty-Twenty?When I was twenty I felt like I couldLive forever if I learned to be good. Now the century of the MillenniumWhich feels as only yesterday Continue Reading[...]