Turn Your Music Down (Just Kidding)

I was walking to the recycling bin off the parking lot to the apartment complex. I flipped through the pages of the copy of The Decline And Fall of the Eoman Empire Volume 1 that I had received in the mail. Yep, the binding and spine were damaged, and several pages were loose. Before IContinue

Giving Candy To My Neighbor

You would think that a Christmas party with a large group of mentally ill people (most of them either bipolar or schizophrenic) would be a lot of fun, but the PACT party was rather lame. For most of the time at the Zag Ga Zig Shriner’s lodge, those of us gathered there sat silently inContinue

Moving Day

My neighbor had explosive and persistent laughing spells that greatly annoyed me. I’m glad that I don’t have to hear that anymore. One of of my last nights at my previous apartment, I turned on yodeling at full volume on my TV and listened to more pleasing music through my earbuds in hopes of sendingContinue

Mozart Effect & Noisy Neighbor

When I was a schoolboy, I was in my elementary school’s Talented and Gifted (TAG) program. Mrs. Nelson was the teacher who directed it, and those of us in the TAG program would meet with her to do special projects, play games, and such. Mrs. Nelson must have believed the hype of the “Mozart effect”,Continue

Neighbor Claims Flat Earth

A neighbor of mine is convinced that Earth is flat. He couldn’t quite explain why. I asked him how he explained the hull of ships disappearing over the horizon as they sail out to sea. “That’s peripheral vision, you see!” No, peripheral vision is what is seen out of the side of the eyes. HowContinue