Friday I went to an event in Louisville, KY at their Firefighting Training Academy and was able to take these photos. Thank you for subscribing to The Word Of Jeff. This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you … Continue reading
My homepage has a “Daily Fortune” widget that I seldom even notice, but the one for March 13, 2009 caught my eye: “You are interested in public service and would make an outstanding statesman.” Ha ha ha ha ha ha … Continue reading
There are three of them this year (a frequency that occurs only every 11 years) and I missed the one last month. One coming up in November will round out the thrice. MSNBC has a “Five Facts About Friday The … Continue reading
Print newspapers across the country are looking death in the eye. Some will close completely, like The Rocky Mountain News, while others will cease printing hard copies and publish only online versions, like The Christian Science Monitor. Whichever way it … Continue reading
Read An E-Book Week (March 8th – 14th), sponsored by e-book industry leaders like E Ink, Sony Reader, Lexcycle and others, is observed “…to inform the public about the pleasures and advantages of reading electronically.” Formerly feasible only to those … Continue reading
I would like for you to create a medicine that will simply dissolve congestion in the lungs, turning it into useful oxygen. I’m tired of using medicine that causes you to cough up said lungs, trying to expectorate the congestion … Continue reading
If you’ve looked around this page, you’ve seen the MAD About Words Lounge membership graphic over on the right hand column. MAD About Words is the brainchild of Winter Park writer and writing coach Mary Ann de Stefano (M.A.D., get … Continue reading
If you’ve read this blog for a while (or gone back through all the archives) you know that occasionally I get asked for permission to use photographs I’ve taken and posted on the Internet. And you know that I’m always … Continue reading
Different respiratory ailments continue to rage through our office. Stuffy noses, coughing, sneezing and body aches are the norm for most of the staff. In spite of spending every day genuflecting with Purell (I keep a bottle like the one … Continue reading
Last week the Washington Post had an interesting article of people with unusual names being rejected by Facebook because they felt anyone using a last name like “Batman” had to be faking it. Personally, if I married a woman whose … Continue reading
I feel like a failure as a writer and person who loves the proper use of words and grammar. I’ve been so busy here in Kentucky that I completely missed National Grammar Day this past Wednesday, March 4, 2009. I … Continue reading
Here in Central Kentucky there are quite a few of the roads that were cut right through small mountains of rock, like you see in the photo below. These are not tunnels through the mountain, but more like they were … Continue reading
Tuesday morning the hard drive on my work laptop bit the dust. I tried to boot up and it kept stalling during the VPN connection process. I tried 3 separate times to re-boot (with the same hanging up results) before … Continue reading
Here’s a lot of little things that aren’t lengthy enough to warrant their own blog post. There is a guy up here who does a syndicated traffic report for several of the radio stations and his voice sounds just like … Continue reading
I’ve only peripherally been paying attention to this issue that came about when Amazon released the new Kindle 2 with a “read aloud” text-to-speech feature. I read Neil Gaiman’s and Wil Wheaton’s blogs and Twitters about the subject and think … Continue reading
So as much as I wanted to just hermit myself in the hotel room Sunday I just couldn’t see spending the entire day holed up like a prisoner. To begin with, I woke up earlier than I intended because of … Continue reading
I went out for a bit today to run a couple of errands. Decided while I was already pretending to be alive like the other people I saw that I would go catch a movie I have been wanting to … Continue reading
…because it’s been a very busy week and I am tired. At least I seem to be over whatever was causing the glands in my throat to swell up (a large majority of our office staff has been sick and … Continue reading
Last Sunday I slept in until almost noon. Between just being tired from the long hours at work and fighting off whatever this is that was causing my glands in my throat to swell up, I really needed the rest … Continue reading
I imagine that a lot of people under the age of 20 are probably unaware that KFC is an acronym for Kentucky Fried Chicken. But those of us who are of a certain age will clearly remember the late Colonel … Continue reading
