This just shows how long I have been off the grid – I got home from visiting my parents seven weeks ago today and I am just getting around to posting the pictures.  Mom and Dad came back to Ohio three weeks ago today.  Mom’s leg has healed.  Oh – you...

We have spent most of 2014 waiting for new items to arrive.  Almost all of the new releases have involved some period of time between the announcement and the actual release – and sometimes a delay as well. This was/is, without a doubt, the hottest item we have...

I am not really missing . . . but sometimes it seems that way.  Life has been so hectic these past couple of months, and my son’s upcoming nuptials (four weeks from today) are only part of the hubbub.  I still haven’t even posted the pictures from my trip to...

I have been completely off the blogging grid for the past three weeks.  Had a great time in Arizona with my parents – pics and narrative will come in a few days.  Even though I know there are a few of you who have been looking for that, I figured there were...

Three weeks is a long time to be off this grid.  But it has been a busy three weeks – a show in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a nasty cold, wedding planning, rotten weather.  You get the idea.  By the time most of you read this, I will have arrived in sunny...

Oh, how I messed up . . . When I posted this picture in my last blog post, I made the following comment – “She said her dad would be less than pleased that she was wearing an Ohio State logo (he’s an Indiana fan).” Three hours after it posted, I received the following...

One of the interesting sights that customers often notice when the convention comes to town each year is the change in our children as they grow up.  My son Ryan was eight years old when we first started traveling – in four months he will be 26.  He was one...

It followed me home from Florida.  I wasn’t sure what to think of it at first, but it grew on me.  After a week or so, I was sure that it would go away, but I wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye.  And it gave me a bit of a warm feeling in the chill of...

My brother Blake joined Zoe and me at the mail center for lunch yesterday.  Blake’s birthday is next week, but he has an all-day meeting on the actual day so we celebrated a few days early.  We decided to get takeout from O’Leary’s next door, and Thursday...

This note has been waiting for me to catch up to it for three weeks.  Back near the end of January, on a day so snowy, icy, and generally yucky that Debbie and Patti stayed home and I brought Zoe with me to the mail center (isn’t that a long-winded way of saying...