Cupcakes
Originally uploaded by jaslusher.
After a bit of baking by Emily and Marilyn, Emily and I decided to decorate cupcakes. And, yes, that is an Africa on the top cupcake. When you have chocolate icing and only yellow, red and green decorative icing, I figured it was obligatory.

Tropical Storm Jonathan

Originally uploaded by jaslusher.

I call him a Tropical Storm because he isn’t quite big enough to be a hurricane. No matter, he destroys everything in his path.

In this day and age of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, I think most reasonable people can agree that raising the minimum wage was a good idea. I think $5.15 an hour is pathetic. At that rate and 40 hours per week, if you worked all 52 weeks per [...]

This just trips me out. I’m not sure why.

I make no effort to hide the fact that I love my Apple iBook G4. Great little laptop.
But that is not where the love affair ends. Apple (the company) itself is just plain competent and designed to make life easy, just like their products.
For tax purposes I need the invoice for my purchases [...]

There is a something a little surreal about my 4 year old daughter first requesting, then singing along with, Pop Life by Prince.
I find myself giggling every time .

I’m working nights this week, Tuesday thru Thursday. Through a confluence of events I don’t sleep during the day Tuesday. When I get home Wednesday morning I’ve been up for about 25 hours. But that’s not the stupid part. It’s a start, however.
As is my norm, I sit down for a [...]

Have I ever told y’all how much I love my job?
Yeah, well, there is a reason for that.

For 2007, “discipline” is going to be the overriding theme in my life. And no, I don’t mean that kind of discipline, you perv.
I’ve been very disciplined about select things in my life. During college I was extremely disciplined at working out. Going to class, studying, paying attention, not so much.
I’ve been [...]

A few days ago I was giving Ken, longtime friend and frequent commenter, a hard time on his blog about using the archaic word “liniment”.
My shed has been a mess for quite some time and it being in desperate need of attention and me having a couple of days, I decided the time was right [...]