As I try to adjust to last weekend's time change I found myself awake and refreshed at five a.m. So rather than toss and turn fruitlessly for an hour, I arose and took the early train into Manhattan.

The six-ten Yonkers express has only one stop before Grand Central Terminal. As the train… Read full post »

It's been hard for me the last month or so since my wife and I are now together under one roof. I've had to face the reality that I couldn't go on being unfaithful to her.

This isn't easy for me to share, here. At first, when I became involved with… Read full post »

Washington (AP) – This war in Iran entered its fifth month today. Since President McCain’s massive stroke in February, which left him in a persistent vegetative state, Sarah Palin assumed the Presidency under the provisions of the 25th amendment to the Constitution of the United States.&n… Read full post »

Forgive me for being somewhat churlish and cynical this morning.  I'm not usually so negative.

While I am pleasantly surprised at the Health Care reform legislation that has come out of Congress, I have an uncomfortable feeling that there are members of both houses of Congres… Read full post »

This would have been a surprise if the WSJ wasn't owned by News Corporation.

from the Boston globe

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/10/wall_street_jou.html

A Ghoul after my own

Heart makes my skin crawl with dread

I'm not your "blood" type.

So Disney is giving refunds to parents on a product that doesn't deliver as promised. Big deal.

For those of you who were born after 1967, the A.C. Gilbert company of New Haven, Connecticut perpetrated a bigger a hoax on America than Disney ever thought it cou… Read full post »

I know where the office is in Manhattan I walk past it practically every Monday thru Friday.

I was once a Mass Communications major at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. I have an MBA from a prestigious institution in New Hampshire.

I have previous media experience including General Manager of… Read full post »

Last Thursday, I sat through a presentation delivered by three consultants. I know there are OSers here whose livelihoods depend on the services they provide. I'm not talking about them.

I'm talking about the three suits who came in and vomited consultant speak across the conference room table onto… Read full post »

WWMSD (Mort Sahl)? For those under the age of 40 Mort Sahl was a satirist and comedian whose schtick was appearing on stage with a rolled up news paper and commenting on the headlines.

Mort who is into 80s would have loved the "Op-Ed" piece in the South Carolina Times… Read full post »

"The day you buy the home and the day you sell the home." For the record, I've heard that said about boat ownership, too. My wife's 99 year old home in Massachusetts that we sold two weeks ago required a lot of work to get it ready for sale. I posted about painting… Read full post »

At 3-2 the New England Patriots look like a pretty average football team. Last week the Denver Broncos were unstoppable in overtime. The Patriots defense couldn't get the Broncos offense off the field.

The Patriots defense is composed of some good veterans and some potentially talented… Read full post »

My wife and I have been living in two places since June of last year. She in Massachusetts, and me in the suburban city of Yonkers. While we were together on holidays and weekends, we were apart more than we were together.

Over the last month we've been riding this roller coaster,… Read full post »

This Sunday the 3-1 New England Patriots face the undefeated Denver Broncos.  Bill Belichick, will be facing his former assistant Josh McDaniels.

Belichick has said that, "What it comes down to is that’s probably going to be overrated, overhyped, and overtalked about. In the end, it&r… Read full post »

Before David Letterman had his late night show on NBC, and before Bill O'Reilly was bloviating on Fox News, I got to see Sexual Harrassment first hand.

I worked as a Security Supervisor at construction site in New Hampshire where a Nuclear Power Plant was being built. It was the largest… Read full post »

1. Michael Jackson's cause of death.

2. Jon and Kate (even though they're estranged, they're inseparable and insufferable)

3. David Letterman's Sex Life

4. Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

5. Paris Hilton

6. Michael Steele

7. Health Care Reform

8. David Brooks

9. Sarah Palin

10. AIG

11. John Boehner… Read full post »

Greetings and salutations --

This has been one of the most hectic and stressful months of my life.  Since I've spent 654 months on this planet, I have enough life experience to know what I am talking about.

It's been a fortnight and two days since I had surgery, and I… Read full post »

Otherwise known as a PPP, I will be recovering from this procedure over the next two weeks. Have a pleasant September.

 TTFN. Read full post »

 The Yonkers waterfront has been transformed in the last several years with a lovely esplanade and sculpture garden at the southern end facing the Manhattan skyline.

Here in the garden are some whimsical sculptures:

Cloud Living Room - Barbara Segal 2003

Early… Read full post »

Tonight marks the 40th anniversary of an Amazin' baseball game.

As I watched it on a black and white TV in a dormatory in Westbrook, Connecticut, real life drama was unfolding 100 miles southwest at Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York.

The Chicago Cubs, who played an outstanding 1969 season, were… Read full post »

Agenda

September 2009

From the desk of OEsheepdog

Week ending 9/4

Schedule surgery for Mid September. For details see this post:

http://open.salon.com/blog/oesheepdog/2009/08/17/why_cpap_is_almost_like_crap_or_back_in_the_sleep_lab

Buy first wedding anniversary card for 9/21.

Complete changes to Pu… Read full post »

You may not need to be a die hard football fan to appreciate the career of one its most consistent players. Tedy Bruschi will retire after 13 seasons with the New England Patriots today.

So what you say? Bruschi actually played with the same team for his whole career. Rather than… Read full post »

1969 New York Mets team photo 

I don't know when you become a fan of a team. I know it was my Dad, who encouraged me to root for a particular team. It was an expansion team in 1962. The were call the Metropolitans or Mets, and Bill Shea,… Read full post »

Greetings and salutations, everyone. I've been thinking about this for a while. I'm not good at organizing social events. I'm an ENTP. But all that aside, I am thinking about coordinating a meet up in NYC in September, likely after labor day, probably around the 16th or 17th.

Do you… Read full post »