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I am on a hiatus of sorts. I've got a publishers deadline at the end of the month and am falling behind. I'm falling behind for a couple of reasons. The first, is a mad addiction to a stupid online game. The second has got to be a fear of success.

In fact, I may be addicted to the online game just to facilitate the fear of success. Yeah, that's it.

It's not the money, mind you. I'm not afraid of winning the lottery or of receiving a long lost inheritance.

It's certainly not the power. I would… Continue

The Grenade Range
My original intent for the “Grenade Range” blog, was to share the follow up story of the lost wallet. However; the fallout from the whole last week had actually made me feel as though I were living in a grenade range. Hence, here are the results of my decision to go forward with this in a slightly different fashion.
So, we left off with the wallet being lost and Matt having no ID to use to get on the plane. Of course, the next day we headed off to the base to obtain a replaceme… Continue

Lost Wallet
Today my son lost his wallet. That, in itself, would be enough to traumatize most. But the fun part is the back story.
My son is not really my son in the legal and mommy sense of the word. He was given up for adoption at birth and we only recently met. It’s been less than a year. We get on quite well and his Mom and Dad have become great friends of mine. It’s amazing how we’ve created this huge expanded family.
Well, anyway, on Friday he came down for the weekend. Friday night was co… Continue

What is Retsin?
I’ve wondering for years about Retsin. If anyone knows, I would really appreciate an answer. The only thing I know about it is that it was an ingredient for CertsTM breath mints in the 1990s. It must have been a big breakthrough thing because all of their ads were always really excited about the Retsin in CertsTM.
Another question I have is this: Was the fruit orange named an orange because it is orange? OR was the color orange called orange because the fruit orange is orange?
Ch… Continue

The Three Dimensional People
I haven’t written in a couple of days. I went out to visit the three dimensional people. I wanted to see what was going on out there and how they were doing. They all said hi and they send their love to all of us in virtual world.
They reminded me that there is a lot of fun out there in their world.
They have these places they call “bars” where they go to drink beer and liquor. They talk to each other there and sometimes to the people giving them the drinks.
I went t… Continue