My water bill for the beach house arrived. It was $2500. Someone had left the hose running in the front yard. It could’ve been me. It could’ve been my neighbor. At any rate, I finally got the adjusted bill with $1900 taken off. Yes, I still have to pay $600, but that is much more… Continue reading Another Dog Story
Category: AI
What Zillow Doesn’t Know
Every now and then, Zillow will send me an email telling me what my house is currently worth. It’s down $200,000 from last year. What Zillow doesn’t know is that the photo of my house on their website is woefully out of date. That green grassy lawn is long gone, replaced by drought tolerant plants… Continue reading What Zillow Doesn’t Know
The Lost Package of Christmas Gifts
(re-run) I know, it’s almost March. I mailed one of my adult children’s Christmas gifts to her in two priority boxes after her visit for the holidays (January 10th). One box made it to the East Coast. The other one made it and then went back to Oakland. That’s what the USPS website said when… Continue reading The Lost Package of Christmas Gifts
Artificial Intelligence Is Here, Baby
If you’ve been following the news at all, you know that AI is what everyone is talking about and worrying about, especially people in the arts and entertainment industry. They’ve even had writer and actor strikes about it, where new terms needed to be written regarding the use of their words or their likenesses. Then… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence Is Here, Baby
The Weird World We Live In
(re-run) To stay informed, I read the paper each day and watch the news most nights. It’s amazing how many people don’t have a clue about what’s going on around them. Like the local nineteen year old woman who bit a female jogger on her arm because the jogger pepper-sprayed her loose dogs. In a… Continue reading The Weird World We Live In
U is for Undo
Okay, so I’m not a complete techno-phobe, but I did come late to the party with smart phones. I still had a flip phone in 2013 when it broke on my Aspen trip. The Verizon guy in Aspen looked at it (it didn’t flip anymore) and said, “We don’t have those.” Of course not. It… Continue reading U is for Undo
FIRST DATE, WORST DATE EVER! 