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  • April Fools in February

    April Fools in February

    Write about a few of your least favorite family traditions.

    Many years ago, I loved Groundhog Day. In Pennsylvania, the winters were colder and more severe . That I do kind of miss, but that’s the story for another day. For a minute in time I would hope the groundhog would do his job and wipe winter away but now I’ve come to detest the holiday . I do love this time of year.

    Groundhog Day

    I don’t like the idea we use an animal for this purpose. I also don’t like the idea that many people in the United States trust the groundhog more than they do science..

    For all you groundhog, worshipping people I salute you for your complete love of tradition. Now go find an algorithm that works.

  • Mini Mart Trilogy

    Mini Mart Trilogy

    Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.

    I wanted to rewrite this story for the longest time. It’s a story of two different minimarts in my community and the stories that surround them. There is some Social commentary sprinkled in.

    It was two different stories that I merged to make it a trilogy. For some reason yesterday I sat, and wrote for four hours straight and finished it. 

    I actually went one step farther and sent it to a publisher. I rather like it. I did change the title to Mini Mart Opus.

  • Lebensmittel

    Lebensmittel

    What’s your favorite thing to cook?

    Word Salad

    This is an interesting question which leads to other interesting questions. I remember when I first started living on my own. One of my first observations was that I could eat whenever I wanted to.

    Some people never break that cycle. It’s a pet peeve when people don’t try new things. But this question wasn’t my judgment on other people.

    Alphabet Soup

    I’m a very good cook and can cook basically everything. So the question is what is it that you like to eat not what you like to cook. And that could be misleading as well. I can’t necessarily say I like to cook I can say I do it Well. However, if somebody else is cooking, I generally like it.

    Yum
  • TRS80

    TRS80

    Write about your first computer.

    I was just out of undergrad months before I expected. I ran out of money and had to double up on courses. I took a job with Black and Decker in down town Philadelphia. I struggled enough with living in a big city, and getting my act together.

    Black and Decker corporate asked me to configure a cheap TRs80 radio shack computer to record the daily sales and cash receipts. It wasn’t inexpensive at the time. Suddenly the job made a small slice of sense. I had something to figure out. It added an hour to my day and I was too young to let it annoy me.

    That was my career for many years. Just figuring it out.