Just one more reminder to get out and vote Tuesday.  Support your candidates or at least vote against the persons you DON'T want to win!  It can be discouraging when you hear about voter fraud and long lines at the polls, but remember that many people gave their lives so we can have a voice in electing our leaders. A few years back my wife and I stayed at "The Balsams" in Dixville Notch, NH.  It's WAAAY up there, even parts of Canada are south!  It's famous for being the f...

I'm old enough that I never really got the whole "My Space" thing.  It seemed kind of juvenile to me.  It seemed like the only time it showed up in the news is when some pervert used it to lure some naive teen to run away with them.  Social networking?  Please spare me!  I'm a busy man!  When I want to talk to someone I just do it.  So when our company decided to create Facebook profiles to give us a company presence on Facebook, I looked at it as strictly busi...

What the heck is "SCHPAA!" ? Schpaa! is an example of Onomatopoiea (a word used to represent a sound).  It originated for me as a sound my fellow game geeks and I would use when playing pen-and-paper role playing games back in college.  Schpaa! was a special sound used only when a player rolled a critical hit that totally obliterated the nasty critter, alien, or evil dude we were fighting. For example: __________________________________ GM: OK, your leg is trapped unde...