Text Pathetique I was looking at smart phones the other day – thinking maybe it’s time to get rid of my old flip phone. Not flip flops! But it is almost that time of the year for everyone who does not have toenail fungus – if you do, skip the flip flops. Please. Anyway, while I was looking at… Read More »
I Ensure you, Alex Trebek I’m often reminded, as if I needed to be, that I’m getting old. Ten years ago people said I was getting older, but now they say I’m getting old. And so I am. I admit it. It’s hard to imagine myself a senior citizen or worse “a golden ager”. I can remember listening… Read More »
A Brief History of the Internet – Innocence Lost Most of us think back on the past as a simpler, less complicated time. When we let our thoughts drift back to our childhoods – no matter how old we are – most of us imagine a more beautiful world, a more peaceful time in our lives. I do… Read More »
The Funeral I know this is not a title that is going to draw you in, but if you’ll allow me to explain, I will. Last weekend, I said goodbye to a lady I’ve known for many decades. She was a kind lady, and a lady who suffered from many chronic health conditions, yet through it all she… Read More »
Growing Old Is Fun! For years and years I fought the fact I was getting old. I’d protest loudly is someone even hinted that I was getting to be an old coot. I’d skip down the street, jump up in the air like the guy from the Teeter-Hang Ups commercial who is 74 (probably 80 by now) and… Read More »
The Golden Age of Cloudeight I was just thinking this morning – we, Cloudeight, have been around for almost two decades. I guess I never thought about the number of years that have past since we started Cloudeight. Back in the days of our beginning, the “Web” / “Internet” was a curiosity and Darcy and I were like… Read More »