http://hamptonroads.com/node/353322 Local life en-us Copyright 2009 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:10:24 -0500 It happened again. Has happened over and over and over. I depend on it. God never abandons me out there, high and dry, needing help that doesn’t show up. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/whatever-you-are Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:59:08 -0500 Portsmouth creeps closer to the required number of signatures. A forced recall election would come after another 6.668 names. That has to be do-able given the amount of disgust for Mayor Holley. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/whos-holley-alternative Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:49:47 -0500 Some group has come up with two lists…the ten smartest dog breeds and the ten dumbest. Chihuahuas don’t appear in either category so I suppose that with exceptions up and down, they’re average. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/dog-brains Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:03:24 -0500 OK. This is the day I start my annual mad dash through November in service to Nanowrimo, National Novel-Writing Month. Yes, I’m making a late start. Ordinarily I’d be ten thousand words into the job. This year I’m over-scheduled, up to my ears in commitments, every day something else I promised to do. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/prose-way Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:19:33 -0500 Yesterday. Election Day. Porque Choppe and I spent two hours handing out literature at Stuart School in Colonial Place. Thank you to those who took a few minutes to chit-chat. More thanks to all the folks who voted for Sharon McDonald. Doug Knack sent a guy who stuck signs directly in front of all the McDonald Signs. Haha, y’all, you got 25% of the vote, and Sharon won with 75%. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/won-some-lost-some Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:35:31 -0500 Have you ever thought about killing yourself? Of course you have. Everyone does, at least briefly. However, a disproportionate number of senior citizens actually do it. They’re the most at-risk age group. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/gloom-and-doom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:50:28 -0500 1) Five times in two days. That’s how often the Democratic Party called, nagging me to canvas, do phone calls, hand out literature at the polls. Pester, pester, pester. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/11/and Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:19:34 -0500 “You’re nothing but a tool,” he says. That’s how the host of TV’s “Tool Academy” kicks another guy under the bus. Tool. Like that’s a bad thing. Well, I like tools. Some of my best friends are tools. Yesterday I bought a new one. Only a little citrus reamer but it makes a difference. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/10/nothing-tool Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:02:10 -0400 Is it just me or are there fewer decorated homes this Halloween? I’ve been taking the Chihuahuas for extra walks in an effort to scope out my neighborhood and I find relatively few decorations. In other years a number of homes shone with as much light-up décor as at Christmas. Not this time. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/10/deck-porch Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:34:05 -0400   Yesterday I received a letter from Citigroup ordering me to buy FEMA insurance immediately. Why? Because I live in an area vulnerable to storm surge now and to polar melt by 2100. I have to admit that this year repeatedly brought high water close to Casa Ahno. http://hamptonroads.com/2009/10/let%E2%80%99s-not-underestimate-ourselves Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:33:46 -0400