1. January 2008 by Ken.

Well, the promised snow came last night (and is still falling) so to help me enjoy the day off, I get to shovel the driveway and sidewalk today. That’s SO much fun! Yeah, right….

One of my goals (I don’t make resolutions) is to update my listing of pages/blogs from my friends. I’ve just barely started, so if you’re reading this and don’t see yours–please don’t take offense–just let me know and I’ll add you in either or both categories. If you’re already there and would like me to change anything about your listing, same drill–let me know. If you don’t know my email address, leave a comment. I can delete it later so everyone and his brother doesn’t get it from here.

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Here’s a listing of some resolutions which were forwarded to me. See if you can pick at least a few of them and adopt them as your own

New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep

Have you broken your last New Year’s Resolutions? Well, here’s a rather crazy list that you can keep.

1. Gain weight. At least 30 pounds.

2. Stop exercising. Waste of time.

3. Read less. Makes you think.

4. Watch more TV. You’ve been missing some good stuff.

5. Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow.

6. Stop bringing lunch from home: Eat out more.

7. Get in a whole NEW rut!

8. Spend your summer vacation in Cyberspace.

9. Don’t eat cloned meat.

10. Create loose ends.

11. Get more toys.

12. Get further in debt.

13. Don’t believe politicians.

14. Break at least one traffic law.

15. Avoid airplanes that spontaneously drop 1000 feet.

16. Don’t swim with piranhas or sharks.

17. Associate with even worse business clients.

18. Spread out priorities beyond ability to keep track of them.

19. Wait around for opportunity.

20. Focus on the faults of others.

21. Mope about faults.

22. Never make New Year’s resolutions again.

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16. December 2007 by Ken.

Here’s a picture I took a few minutes ago out my back door onto the deck. It’s about 23F (-5C) outside right now. Notice the table with about 8-9″ (200-225 mm) of some strange unknown substance which appears to be falling from the sky? Anyone with a clue as to what this might be? I’m totally stumped on this one

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16. December 2007 by Ken.

A friend forwarded an email containing a long list of trivia, including this one:

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

I knew there was some sort of rule for this, but never found it written down anywhere. I was born in Monroe, Michigan, and recently went back there to meet with my mom, sisters, a couple of aunts, a niece, and a cousin for a weekend. While there, we went past the statue of General Custer (who grew up there) and I mentally noted that all four of his horse’s feet were on the ground. See the pictures here. According to rule of this item, he died of natural causes. Well, I guess if you’re a white man deep in Indian territory and both sides are shooting at each other, it seems very “natural” that you would die of bullets, arrows, or spears, huh?

Monroe is pretty proud of the dead General, and I’ve been told some restaurants serve “Custered” pie and one ice cream stand (I was last there while it was almost snowing, so no ice cream for me!) have frozen “Custerd”. My dad once told me that he actually grew up in a house near where Custer lived as a boy. Of course, that house was probably gone then, but I’m sure there must be a bronze plaque noting the location. I have no affinity for someone so dumb as to defy the odds and believe that the “superior” white men always win–they don’t…. My personal observation on immigration reform is that if the Native Americans had an effective border patrol several centuries ago, they would have been much better off and we would still be somewhere else, probably Europe!

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15. December 2007 by Ken.

I purchased my domain a few weeks ago and I’ve been slowly building a website and exploring all the options. Blog? Why not? I’ve done it before, here and every once in a while, I really have something to say or get off my chest. So, I’ll try my luck here. Compliments and comments are always welcomed, and if you have to, complaints will be read also! I guess there will be an email link somewhere on the page, but I don’t know until I publish this post and check it out.

More later.

Alright, it’s later. I published and updated my profile, and see that the only way for you to find my email address is to go to the right, find “Ken’s Home Page”, go there, and find the email link. That will probably be best, as I want to try to minimize the places my address appears to cut down on the spam. I have had quite enough of the “My father in Nigeria died last year…” or “Are you satisfied with what you have now?” type emails. The person who solves that problem easily will win every conceivable Nobel Prize for several consecutive years

Of course, there is a “comment” link on here you can use also, and I’ll see it. I can’t test that because I can’t comment on myself. Do you want to be the first to try it and perhaps win valuable prizes?

OK, more later than later: a friend wrote and said she tried to comment and couldn’t. I poked around and found an option which allows comments only for those with previous comments. Huh? How can you do it with that rule if you haven’t done it before? It’s almost like applying for a job which requires experience and you have none and can’t get it because you don’t have it. Sometimes the world just doesn’t make sense.

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