Lockjaw’s Life
Coming out of Busy-ness
It’s been a busy week and a half around the lair. It has seemed like every day has been stuffed full of something important to do, or recovery from it. I love the busy weeks, when they come, but I’m sure glad when they come to an end, and I can go back to normality. [...]
Car Troubles
Well, the Saturn finally bit the dust. When my wife and I married, she had a 1991 Saturn SL. Over the years, minor issues have cropped up with the car. The first big issue was back in the mid 1990s, when a valve roller went bad, resulting in replacement of a couple valves, rollers, rocker [...]
An Ogre’s Life – Latest Happenings
A week ago, I had the opportunity to do some more training. Being a non-college edumakated ogre, I can’t get a job at the local Community College teaching students. I did a short stint there as a continuing education instructor, but all the students who signed up as interested didn’t show up for the actual [...]
New Journal, Pen, and habit.
Contrary to what may appear to be the case, I have been writing lately. The wife and I shopped for journals, the other day, at Barnes and Noble. I picked up a nice one for my purposes. It has a plain black cover, and fine grid paper pages. I prefer grid paper for writing, because [...]
Winning the Ribbons
For the first time in my life, I entered something in the local County Fair competitions. My entry was a photo I took last year at the North Carolina State Fair. I won third place in the photos of buildings category. Having looked at the other entries when I put mine in, I said I’d [...]
Back From the Festival
I’m back from an extended weekend event. The wife, cub, and I spent the last few days in Buena Vista Virginia, at the “Nothin’ Fancy Bluegrass Festival.” This is an annual event at which the wife has sold her jewelry for the last few years, and this was my first year being able to attend [...]
“Officially” No Longer Libertarian
Well, it’s official. For the first time in years, the Libertarian Party of North Carolina is no longer an “official” political party in the state of North Carolina. Since failing to receive enough signatures within a certain number of days after the 2004 elections, the NC Board of Elections has decertified the party. Yes, I [...]
Fun Weekend Recap
This past weekend was a blast. It was exhausting, but well worth it. The wife and I spent the weekend on a jewelry sales trip to Virginia, coupled with some visit time with my Father-in-Law. On Friday, I left work and made the 40 minute drive home. Once there, we loaded the car. I gave [...]
I Read the News Today – Oh Boy!
The She-Ogre and I are on the front page of the local newspaper today. This past weekend was Amateur Radio Field Day. We setup across the parking lot from Wal-Mart in Sanford and operated with temporary antennas and generator power through most of the 24 hour event, making contacts with other hams across the world. [...]
DSL Outage
We’ve got a DSL outage at the lair. It started yeserday morning, and hasn’t cleared up over 24 hours later. It’s a problem with the ISP, and they say they’re working on it. They say it should be fixed within 24 hours, which means one of two things. Either they know what the problem is, [...]