Recent content by R. Zimm

I'm curious as to what you all think of our current situation. The Obama Administration now has five "issues" of various sorts and yet much of the mainstream press has barely said a peep about them. I'm not trying to create a ruckus here, just honest opinions. Do you think these issues are...

Other than seeing pictures and videos of my grand children, FB is really starting to annoy me. I have connected with some old High School classmates but other than these things I find that if I visit my page there is too much emphasis on likes and comments to the point that I feel rather...

Not that it's a bad idea, of course! I just mean are you (or we) overly focused on doing anything and spending lots of money in the process in the attempt to live as long as possible? My wife and I have changed much about our eating including going organic, gluten free and non GMO.

It just occurred to me that I use (several) USB flash drives almost every day. I save things on them, I backup files to them, I run "portable apps" off them - I'm hooked!

I'm just wondering since a guy came into the library yesterday and he wanted to donate a bunch of books since he's moving into an assisted living place. From my perspective talking to him this didn't sound like a bad deal, he was pretty feeble. Anyway it got me thinking about whether I would...

I remembered this the other day in a conversation. The first book I could actually read myself (not just repeating it from memory) was . . . "Go, Dog, Go" by Dr. Seuss How about you?

My wife has been saying "I don't like microwaves, I think they are dangerous. When this one dies that's it!" Well, guess what, it died last week so she got her wish! I don't think they are a problem but she has researched it and I have not so there's that. Do any of you feel that microwave...

I just found out today that a girl I went to high school with passed away. Turns out she had taken a nasty fall down a flight of stairs a number of years ago and was paralyzed. Our class has been reconnecting though Facebook of late so that's how the word is getting out. What bums me is that...

I suppose I got this from my Dad in that he never threw anything away and could always cobble together a useful item from apparent junk. This time I found on ebay the case for a battery powered guitar amp ("Legendary" Pignose) for $16.59 shipped from Oregon to Florida. Now I used to own one of...

I realized today that we tend to make the same dishes on a regular basis and perhaps we need to add some variety. One issue is that we both still work so we have less time. This makes us gravitate towards things we like that are easy and quick to make. Anyone else find this to be true? How did...

My wife and I are in our late 50's so we are starting to think about retirement but mostly just chit chat. At least we are talking about important ideas and criteria we might use to select a spot. How about you, how soon did you start thinking about where you were going to retire (or will be...

New super virus. I do not like this! http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/04/24/new-bird-strain-is-one-most-lethal-flu-viruses-who-says/

Ok, this one is a little different in that I am putting up the name of a product and you folks have to guess what it is used for, ok? Ready? Here we go! What is used for?

I would just LOVE to work in this place and program/fly these gizmos all day!

(and willing to admit it!) I work as a Librarian and we seemed to get very few requests for tax forms just before April 15th. But after, we get a steady stream of folks wanting forms. We have already recycled most of them but kept a very few BUT if they cannot tell us which form they want we...