William Allen's Open Salon Blog

Yea, Huck, that's pretty much how I feel

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:51 -0400

SparkNotes No Fear Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter 4

WELL, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

That's pretty much the way I feel about mathematics.

My back, my garden, my grandmother

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:09 -0400

I've dealt with a sore back all winter. Not fun. Chalked it up to aging. Maybe it is. Anyway...

Yesterday I spent the whole day working in the yard and garden. I kept thinking that I will pay for this when I can't get out of bed next morning.

I arose and my back never felt better--well, not for a long time.

I remembered my grandmother saying that if you don't feel good you need to grab a hoe and go outside and work. You know, I think she was right! Good ole granny medicine.

My eldest cat friend and I ponder electric power

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:01:12 -0500

Eldest cat, fourteen, has an electric heating pad and she likes it. I don't blame her. Wish I had one, only me-sized.

A picture is

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:01:10 -0500

A picture is worth a thousand preconceptions.

Just what does Gmail know about my university?

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:10:33 -0400

Gmail is pretty clever at placing ads next to messages--ads that pertain somehow to what is in the message. I've noticed recently that when message from or about my university show up that an add for the University of Phoenix appears. I wonder if this means that Gmail thinks that I might want to work at another place or that it likens my university with UPhoenix. Hmm. Well, yes.