Dept. of Nance

L ater this afternoon I'm going to bribe Rick into taking down the tree and completely deChristmasing the house. I'm tired of all t...

T here's certainly plenty of both in the Dept. Cellar, thanks to our Friends In Canada, so I'm sure to be well fortified for the Ho...

S aturday morning at the Dept. Sam makes a rare appearance, mainly to troubleshoot his Blackberry using Rick's laptop. Rick and I are w...

O h, Heavy Sigh. Today I am valiantly trying to have Christmas Spirit , and no one is helping me. Honestly, what the hell is my problem, a...

F rom time to time, as many Alert Dept. Readers know, I like to keep you all abreast of Important Doings in the Animal World. (I also like ...

C all it a sign of Getting Older. Maybe I'm even getting a little Morbid, I don't know. But for the past several months, I've be...

I t's time for a new post, and I'm not too sure what I feel like writing about. Or if I even feel like writing. There's sort of ...

B een a while since I did one of these silly little posts. Seems like it's been tough throughout the blogosphere to generate any interes...

Very sorry for the monstrous gap between posts. Went on a jaunt, then came home and promptly fell ill. Still not feeling up to par, but oh w...

C an you possibly handle a Barrage of Hodgepodge? A Pelting of Pastiche? Because my brain is firing random shots of mental rubbish right now...

S o much about my television viewing habits has begun to concern me. No, really, it has. Isn't it bad enough that I make a point to sepa...

C ertainly our current Administration in Washington D.C. has plenty to do, what with The Economy, Health Care, Iran playing Hide-n-Seek with...

A pparently, we do have to worry about them after all. Oh, I know that the President assured us that we don't, and even I didn't be...

S unday nights are my traditional Soaky Bath Nights. I like to climb into a nice, hot tubby and just unwind and try not to think about anoth...

F riday was a teacher inservice day, and it started off with a big meeting for the entire staff. Our school is huge: my department alone ha...

O n Saturday and Sunday mornings I wake up relatively early, by about 8 A.M. I make my coffee, grab my beloved Plain Dealer from the front ...

L et me just say one thing right off the bat: I am operating under a whole new Priority System here. Priority One--remain vertical. Priority...