delmer on November 30th, 2009

The Player of the Year Voting is nearing an end and I’m looking for some people with quick clicker fingers (note to self: Send Carrie Prejean an email about this) to give Dusty Isaacs a boost. Click early. Click often.   Technorati Tags: Player of the Year,Lebanon Ohio,Western Star,Carrie Prejean

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delmer on November 29th, 2009

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 2, 2005. Once in a while I will Google for a long-lost friend. Or someone I knew when I was younger. Or I’ll have an I-wonder-whatever-happened-to someone moment. Oftentimes the Googling returns hit after hit for a person [...]

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delmer on November 28th, 2009

Tonight, at 5 p.m., he was at the McDonald’s in Hillsboro, Ohio. Please excuse the crappy cell phone photo. And the travel hair. And the lack of a shave. And the fact I’m wearing the clothes I slept in (in my defense, I think Ron sleeps in that getup too). Technorati Tags: Ronald McDonald,McDonald’s

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delmer on November 25th, 2009

I’ve been married for almost five months now. Like most married men I see women in the following fashion: My beautiful and adorable wife A generic group of people who remain featureless to me to the point that they all look the same At least that’s what I used to think. If you have a [...]

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delmer on November 24th, 2009

“Samson,” I said, noticing the morning dishes in the sink, “didn’t I ask you to load the dishwasher when you got home from school?” “I thought you said to unload the dishwasher,” he replied. I’d not considered that there might have already been dishes in the dishwasher. As I’ve explained before, when the boys are [...]

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delmer on November 23rd, 2009

I have a project going that has me putting some OSB down in my garage eaves to expand the storage I have. The project involves a lot of bending a body in a manner it may not be used to bending in; unfortunately, the body I’m using for this project is my own. While I [...]

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delmer on November 22nd, 2009

A sort of rerun, per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a fair bit for the sake of readability and rantiness. Originally posted September 1, 2005.   Let me preface this by saying, I used to be Baptist. Most of my relatives still are. Now, on with the post.   Q: How [...]

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delmer on November 21st, 2009

I’ll start this post by saying today I bought turkey for 29 cents a pound. This won’t come as news to Americans, but it might take the international readers by surprise. I didn’t need a coupon or anything. Well, except to buy $30 in additional food items. In other news, today was the Ohio State/Michigan [...]

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delmer on November 20th, 2009

This post is a supplement to a prior post and is a sticky. Newer things follow. Lest people clicked away before reading that one through – thinking it was a goofy post about me — I put this here so they’d have another chance to vote for Player of the Year. Dusty Isaacs, senior, Lebanon, [...]

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delmer on November 19th, 2009

I’m sure you remember my buddy Roy. He’s they guy to the far left in the photo below. A couple of years ago he tried to kill me. He did this by inviting me to the YMCA to play basketball over Thanksgiving. Well, he called me again today. As luck would have it I can’t [...]

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