Al's Blog-o-Sphere

I love my new cell phone. It’s finally a fairly modern phone. I mentioned it here recently, the LG VX-9100 aka. ENV2.

But I have one problem with it. I keep dialing random numbers with it when it is in my pocket. Sometimes, it even treats them as a redial or gets into the directory. That’s the worst, because it calls real numbers and real people!

If I’ve called you and you heard nothing but background, or worse, heard whatever I was doing at the time, please accept my apologies for anything I said! One friend called me back to let me know it was happening and we laughed about it, because her son did the same thing all the time. Continue Reading…

This is the time of the year where Pumpkin carving comes into it’s own. Some people can make it an art form. Having a good template can go a long way to making a clever carving.

Not to be left out of it, the political parties have capitalized on it and are offering guides to make Jack O’Lantern into your favorite candidate. Continue Reading…

I read this and had to laugh… some antenna advice from The Lord:

In the gospel of Luke Chapter 14, verses 28-30, he admonishes us: “For which of
you, intending to build a tower, sits not down first and counts the cost,
whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he has laid the
foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”

[Thanks to Hans, K0HB]

I couldn’t resist…. and of course, the SNL opener: Continue Reading…