First of all they are not my chickens and ducks -- the are Lorraine's animals. They have names, but I don't even know what they are. Today I am working on the computer and the ducks started pecking at the deck window expectantly. When I turn, they just stare at me. Who knows what a duck wants? After a while I noticed two chickens staring at me through the front window. I looked at them and they started clucking and pecking at the window. Like the ducks, they look like they are bored and want to some one to play with. It's quite an load to be expected to entertain poultry. . .

Bobby McFerrin had it right -- Simple pleasures are the best. Consider the new generation label printers. Is your life is in disorder? Putting labels on things and things will automatically start snapping your organizational issues into easy to organized and classify categories -- 10-penny nails, flat-head screws, paint thinner, white bread flour, sugar, basil, small-throated g-nocks, 100-graine point, reference books, ducks, spin-vane tape, garlic powder, Lorraine, wide egg noddles, motor oil, Janice, Angelina, chickens. Try it it works!
That is except for cats. It's really hard to get an adhesive label to stick on a cat.

I've read a few blogs lately which seem to be very personal diaries of the authors journey through life. What they see walking down the street, self-analysis of their dreams ("I was being chased by a huge monster which had the head of my sixth-grade teacher.") "Does that girl I met when I was 22 still think of me?" or a scientific analysis of where belly button lint comes from.
This blog will only post significant thoughts, uh, which, I guess, why there are significant gaps in the dates of the postings and, uh, which, I guess, why there aren't very many.

I've been told by my wife that she'd prefer -- make that insists -- that I not be cranky. That would put the title of this blog in danger. Hmmm. A dilemna Marital Harmony vs. an Anti-Hero Personna. Well, it was a pretty lame personna anyway. Look for more posts about flowers and soft, fuzzy puppies.