delmer on July 21st, 2010

The other day I was driving by the Franklin County Fairgrounds. The fair is in progress, people were milling about, and I was proceeding down the road slowly with an eye out for pedestrians. There was no traffic in front of me moving either way. At the side of the road, on the passenger side [...]

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delmer on July 13th, 2010

“What have they done with the urinals in here.” And I was thinking this as I approached the sinks in a restroom at Port Columbus Airport. What I should have been thinking was: “Have I walked into the womens’ bathroom? Again?” Because I had.   There were no women standing at the sink but based [...]

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delmer on May 25th, 2010

I’m not sure how much Diet Coke you can pour into one of our office phones and still have it work… but it must be something under 12 ounces. (Probably a lot less as it appears a good portion of the spill soaked into a report I’d just run.) Technorati Tags: Diet Coke

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delmer on March 15th, 2010

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 14, 2005. The first part of the rerun is here. * * * * Gigging for Frogs: A Quinn Martin Production. Tonight’s Episode, The Finale Be sure to read the above with a deep, uninterested tone of voice. [...]

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delmer on March 4th, 2010

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 13, 2005. The first part of the rerun is here. * * * * The officer spoke into his radio, “I got ‘em.” He kept his hand on his gun. That didn’t sound good. But I was pretty [...]

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delmer on February 28th, 2010

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 12, 2005.   Let me start this post by saying that growing up I ran around with a pretty tame crowd. A big night for us was renting a gym and playing basketball for a couple of hours. [...]

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delmer on February 1st, 2010

Because I’m too lazy to put all of this in narrative form.   Stupid Things I’ve Recently Done It looks like I’ve thrown away my whitening trays. I’m having a crown put on a tooth that will be visible when I talk and I thought I’d take the step of whitening my teeth first — [...]

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delmer on December 15th, 2009

That a guy who owns a motorized bar stool – and got a DUI after crashing it – might be more than $35,000 behind in his child support? Okay. I don’t know what the odd are. But I do know the guy who crashed the one above lives in Newark, Ohio which is not far [...]

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delmer on October 15th, 2009

One of my telephone handsets quit working the other day. The battery would show charged, I’d be able to answer a ringing call, but the phone would die moments later. As it was the upstairs handset it spent a lot of time on the charger, untouched, and out of mind. The other day I finally [...]

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delmer on October 11th, 2009

(Since we’ve been talking about the trees at the old place, I thought I’d repost this per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. This says we’d planted 400 trees. Originally published, here, September 30, 2005; it was originally from a website I cleverly called Delmer Dot Com.) Go for the burn. It was [...]

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