Retiring Guy

Considering how much I'm cutting into library time with personal business -- taking care of a sick Eddie last week for example -- I...

Already a short week is looking much shorter, with a scheduled Friday departure date to Pennsylvania. The trip is threatening to cut into my...

I'm a few minutes late for the LINK meeting, and this time they start without me.  Pinpricks to my ego.  The meeting lasts 90 minutes, w...

#10 on the Billboard Hot 100 "I've got blisters on my fingers," the result of a morning of roto-tilling.  JoAnna expects th...

1 was enough. Immediately upon waking, Eddie is calm, then boom!  He shifts gears into a fussy period wherein I imagine myself staying ho...

#4 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending 5/16/92 Eddie's still feverish, and I'm still embracing unexpected days off from ...

Eddie is still running a temperature:  101.  It is an improvement  though.  Having nothing pressing on my schedule, I again volunteer to s...

TIME The alarm is set to go off at 5 since JoAnna has a breakfast meeting in Milwaukee.  My morning gets off to an unusual start.  Andy...

I don't walk into the day with a spring in my step. but neither do I cower in a corner.  I call Jane Robbins and she helps me think t...

The weekend's top-grossing new release. Finished in 4th place overall. Gone, forgotten. I work.  Kelly babysits.  It's a slow S...

Today I think about tomorrow, taking a day off work and getting into some long overdue yardwork. I also think about leaving work early, bu...

Wasn't the election a couple of weeks ago?  Sure it was, but it feels like a campaign weekend with JoAnna out of the family picture, D...

A mediocre opening weekend The WAPL conference is very successful and well-attended.  The final is 257.  I make it to only one program.  ...

Never on the Nelson/Richard TV viewing schedule JoAnna calls me at the library during the day to inform me of the latest version of her w...

At least the sun is shining, but it's still cold, cold, cold for mid-April.  Andy is intent on playing tennis in the driveway, but I...

Friday's top box-office draw. I thought I might have a little preparation time at the library, preparation for what I don't know....

On the Thursday night TV schedule, a big favorite of Jo's in reruns On page 2 of the Middleton  Times-Tribune is an article under th...

TIME I'm on cloud nine throughout the day.  We don't get to bed until after one on election night and my Mexican jumping-bean b...

The TV show that ruled its Thursday evening time slot for 8 years. At first, I plan to work with Eve in the evening, but with school out ...

The New Yorker However, staying asleep remains a major challenge.  In some ways, I'm more concerned about the second day's perf...