Mondays are busy days in my neighborhood, busy with joggers in their skimpy shorts, joggers pushing their baby jogging carts, joggers running their dogs. There are altogether too many joggers, but I realize that I say this as a non-jogger, as a person who believes that if you really want to get some place in […]
Methods and classes, constants and variables. It’s amazing how much programming is like life, or perhaps not so amazing when you consider that everything follows some set of rules. As far as we know, I might add; physicists are fond of coming up with spooky theories that sometimes seem to suggest otherwise. But today, at […]
It’s an apocalyptic day, and it’s not done yet. We got news from downstate that Penelope will have to vacate the premises. Maude is, apparently, pretty sick and her daughter and son-in-law will be moving in to take care of her. Since I’m getting the story fourth-hand, I won’t vouch for any of it. School […]
There is trouble brewing downstate, and I hesitate to talk about it because I predicted it would happen. It would be better if it didn’t happen, if I was wrong, and it’s hard to talk about it objectively. Penelope and Maude are not getting along, or so it would seem. There have been phone calls […]
It wasn’t the best start for the day. In fact, it wasn’t even the start of the day; it was well after the start, something of a second chance at the beginning, if there is such a thing. It’s the end of Medical Procedure week, and I have dropped Marissa off at the clinic where […]
It’s January twentieth. Presidents are inaugurated on this day, but I’m not a President. Instead, I hereby inaugurate this blog, 2nd Chance, and begin the process of determining what it’s all about. It is, of course, about second chances; that’s the premise. But more than that, it will be about what one does with that […]