Life Stories

Google owns feedburner.com. Sometime in the summer of 2021, Google will shut down the Feedburner site. This site has been the procedure that slowoldrunner.com was using to send emails when I post a new article. As a replacement, I recommend using follow.it to replace that functionality.[more …]

The 108th Tour de France wrapped this past Sunday. The NBC Sports Channel has carried each race stage in its entirety for the past many years.

After my morning runs, I’ll usually watch an hour while stretching. Since I’ve recorded the race on my Tivo, I will skip through the commercials and the nonaction parts of each stage.[more …]

This morning, I exercised my voting rights as a US citizen. In Virginia, I do not need to declare a party affiliation. Thus, the primaries are open to all registered voters.

What happens when you have an election, and nobody shows up to vote?[more …]

On Monday May 31, 2021, UVA increased its lead over Tech [more …]

Since the 2002 season, the NFL schedule has had a perfect parity. This coming fall, the owners and players have agreed to expand the regular season to 17 games. Throwing a wrench at the monkey[more …]

Because of COVID, the Virginia Republican Party could not hold an in-person convention to nominate their slate for the 2021 Governor, Lt Governor, and Attorney General elections. Since an in-person convention was not possible and a primary may not produce good choices, the party needed to develop a new approach to determine nominees.[more …]

Since I no longer need to use my phone number as a business line, I changed my outgoing message to try and weed out the computers from the humans.[more & hear message …]

Friday April 9, 2021 was the tenth day in the prosecution’s case. There are so many terms used in the presentation, I’m not sure how the jurors can retain all of this information. The prosecution presented 2 or 3 witnesses that testified with similar information. One thing we learned from the OJ case, the trial was too long.[more …]