Rictresa Design Link Here

In case some of you don't know how my website works, the front page, (and the navigation on some or the pages) is a image map. This means, if you click on the words, Home, Graphics, Webmaking and Email.. you will be taken to that area.… Read full post »

This is an example of my newest design idea. One of my main issues I have had, designing websites, was the fact that backgrounds had to be either solid colors, (yawn) or a repeating background graphic of some kind. Although the background graphic can be a cool thing, more times… Read full post »

This is a disgrace to anything American of any kind. The US Gov did this same kind of crap to the American Indians and now a hundred years later they are still doing it in another part of the world..

We need to find the ones responsible, give them a fair trial… Read full post »

I know.. the Olympics have been over for like a week, or some thing but I can't control how I find things, so there you are. This is a pretty cool link, tucked inside the Vancouver 2010 website. If you are wanting some nice computer desktop wallpapers to remember the Winter… Read full post »

 High drama getting my srvice to stay on. The company has a cold, cruel heart. They just couldn't understand that the pay check only came once a month and that was usually the 5th of every month. They gave us until the 1st.

So sorry..

So any old how.. I… Read full post »

I just want to say, (the obvious.) You folks of this community are some of the finest people in the world. You humble me and make me proud to call you my family.

Thank you for your kindness and caring. Ric and Theresa

That is the theme of this missive of mine, Despite it all. I have been swimming against the current for quite a little time now and slowly, ever so slowly the current has pulled me backwards towards the abyss. I have really swam my old ass off, selling a banner here… Read full post »

This is a graphic I made of my home town library, re-created from a photograph.

This building holds so much history for me. As a kid, I used to scan it's shelfs for books to take home. Later, when I was in High/…

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These people amaze me! I mean I don't see how they can even function with their heads so far up their asses. -Ric

• New Birther Billboard In Colorado Features Picture Of Obama And Asks ‘President Or Jihad?’
• New Missouri billboard tells Americans to ‘prepare for war’ against the
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(if you would like to see the full sized version of the banner graphic to use on your own desktop) **CLICK HERE**

I had two brothers yet I grew up wondering what it was like to have brothers who cared about each other. I still do. My parents never divorced yet I grew up wondering what it would be like to have a father love me more than the next drink. I still… Read full post »

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All I have been hearing on the news is about, "the" earthquake in Haiti, so the purpose of this post is to educate you about the earthquakes. See? Old people are funny. Some of us get hobbies. Useless hobbies. Some become experts on the weather or some get a kick out… Read full post »

When I was in school during the Dark Ages, the only dress code we had was you had to wear a button up shirt over your tee-shirt, (you couldn't just wear your tee-shirt alone) the outer shirt had to be buttoned up and tucked in. The girls couldn't wear skirts, one… Read full post »

THE BEAR REMOVER

A man wakes up one morning in Alaska to find a bear on his roof. So he looks in the yellow pages and sure enough, there's an ad for "Bear Removers."

He calls the number, and the bear remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes. The bear remover arrives,… Read full post »

We all know that Mike Rodgers is a plumber and rakes in the BIG dough.. What most don't know is he is cheap, always looking to go the budget plan, whenever possible.

Take for instance his most recent vacation, "Safari R Us." He quickly found out why his elephant was named,… Read full post »

I was going to chop this website up and use it over a space of time but decided, instead just to share the whole shomoe with you so you could dive into it and read what is there for the taking.

Just to tease you and get your juices flowing I am… Read full post »

I just don't care what people might think of my opinion because some people just need to be killed. Like in some old west movie, "we'll give him a fair trial then we'll hang him..." This guy, a children's doctor no less needs just that kind of a trial. He video… Read full post »

Merry Christmas to ALL the peeps here on Open Salon! May you get good luck and good will during this Holiday Season. Don't pass up a chance to drop a buck in the Salvation Army's kettle.. And don't forget, "Kiss a Duck and… Read full post »

Theresa has been cracking the whip on me to give you all a Toastie Tootsie UpDate.. So here it is. New colors, new choices, free shipping!

Officer Tina Griswold
Sgt. Mark Renninger
Officer Gregory Richards
Officer Ronald Owens

May you rest in peace.

So... All year long we have had the chance to get some antifreeze for the car and we have been putting it off for, "tomorrow.." Only tomorrow didn't seem to roll around.

This morning, it got down to 5 degrees. Yeah, 5 degrees... I have lived her for 20 years… Read full post »

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Proof of a Summer that once was.. A promise of a Winter not to forget. We have a high temp of 32 today and a low of 19. Not cold for Minnowsoda standards, I am sure but for us here on the North West Coast? Plenty… Read full post »