Category Archives: Bright shiny objects

I can’t even Tweet! Not sure what’s going on but hope to be blogging again soon!

Tonight at my workplace there was a Chamber After Five event to celebrate the former owner’s 50 years of service to the company (he started as Controller in 1959 and is still on the board of directors today). 50 years. Just think about that. I cannot fathom being anywhere for 50 years. As much as I want to stay at… Read more »

I have a lot of thoughts/ pet peeves flying around my head right now so I’ve decided that instead of trying to pick one to flesh out into a full entry I will get them all out there at once. I will warn you now- I am all over the map here! #1. When did the kids I used to… Read more »

Tomorrow is Mission Festival again. I can’t believe it’s already been a year since #1 I went last time and #2 since I started blogging. I don’t know that’ I’ve gotten any better at blogging than I was when I started. I do think it’s cool that I’ve actually managed to stick with it for a year- I am really… Read more »

I bought a Droid today. I am not going to torture myself any longer. Not sure when I will be able to actually run it halfway decently. That is going to take some time- this is a very complicated toy I got 🙂

Since I left my job as a tech support rep for a cellular company 4 years ago I have become less and less interested in the new gadgets that have become available for sale at what seems to be a faster rate every year. I barely blinked when the iPhone was released. I have never checked out prices or available… Read more »

No, not the heavenly bodies- I am pondering the word “star” in the sense of “famous” or”celebrity”. Specifically- when did anyone who can get on TV for any reason be called a star? I am embarrassed to admit that I have gotten sucked into the latest season of the TV show Dancing with the Star. It’s mostly because of my… Read more »

This is an odd thing to think about and an even odder one to blog about. But it’s been on my mind a lot lately so here we go.   As human beings we are all mammals. As mammals we all produce waste products. For whatever reason this is an embarrassing thing for a lot of people. So embarrassing for… Read more »

Remember when we all thought the year 2000 was so far away it would never come? Even better, remember when we all thought we would be living on the moon and driving spaceships by the year 2010? I am a child of the 80s. I remember very clearly the day my school got its first Apple 2c computer. I was… Read more »