Daily Archives: December 19, 2010

Last week, I had a class in the 2007 version of PowerPoint for Windows.  Heh heh heh. It was a lot easier than either Word or Excel.  By the time I got to PowerPoint, I had a pretty good idea … Continue reading →

The pie I just made: One graham cracker pie shell, either store-bought (what I use — yay for the Keebler elves!) or homemade 2 cans sweetened condensed milk 3/4 to 1 cup good cocoa (in this case, Ghiradelli), sifted 3/4 … Continue reading →

I sing.  At home, in the car.  Not in public, though. Show tunes, classic rock, country, folk. I am fond of Rent and the work of Steven Schwartz, and Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. My kids get after me for … Continue reading →

One of the downfalls of blogging (especially late at  night) is that sometimes you shoot off your keyboard and realize the next morning that what you have written is uninformed, badly reasoned, and, quite frankly, you knew better. So then … Continue reading →

I was listening this morning to the Smash Mouth version of “I’m a Believer.”  There’s no way around it:  this is just better than the Monkees version. I know a lot of people with  bias for performances by the original … Continue reading →