Blogger redesigned the entire appearance of its blog publishing software. I suspect my mother will have a fit trying to get used to it. Be...

It's been terrible weather here in Florida: Rain and clouds almost all day, every day, since I got back from New York. Uncle Bob says ...

I was out at the beach, wading back to shore in about navel-deep water. About 20 feet in front of me closer to the beach was a dark patch o...

It's been a hectic 2 months, to put it mildly. Then I threw in a trip to New York to visit my family on top of it. About the biggest...

My sister and her son Vincent and daughter Evie enjoying the pool at Watkins Glen State Park. Evie having fun out on the grass in the b...

With life being as slow and uneventful (yet hectic — but not worth writing about) as it is, little moments in time don't get written abo...

Both of Epril's approved visa petitions, after being "lost in the mail" for nearly 2 months (from May 27 to July 20), finally ...

I have a house guest: Uncle Bob's friend from Canada, a fellow named Mark, is staying in my house for a couple of weeks. I like Mark b...

Epril's visa application got lost being sent from the USCIS in California to the National Visa Center in New Hampshire. I had to wait 3...

I'm going to start practicing billiards again. I used to be an excellent player, probably a high B ranking. I was in the bar league in...

I'm waiting for Epril's approved I-130 form to get entered into the system so that we can continue the process of getting her visa. ...

This is as boring as it gets. The new dishwasher didn't have any of that Jet Dry stuff in it, so I filled up the little container on the...

I got news on Epril's visa application today: It went all backwards... in a good way. I had been following VisaJourney.com's instru...

It's starting to get cloudier here in Florida; the rainy season is coming. Today I went out to the shopping mall and had a wander. I hav...

My sleep schedule is starting to skew forward again, which I don't like. I really wish I did not sleep as much as I do, but that has be...

I did some grocery shopping: Fixin's for salad, soups, some extra nice lunch meat (a special ham called capocollo, some mesquite-smoked...

I've been weeding the front lawn. I kept watering it and looking at the huge patches of weeds and thinking how stupid it was to just co...

Uncle Bob, Truck, and Trailer Uncle Bob watches Marian and the kids playing games. Today I was invited by my cousin Jon to join him and his ...

Epril's laptop computer finally gave out. Fortunately, Mike Bird was leaving Honolulu for Manila only a few days after the death, so I ...

I was enjoying watching the clouds roll in. The prospect of a nice soaking rain storm and a bit of thunder and lightning always appeals to ...