I hardly ever go on Linked In but I got a notification last night and saw that one person had searched for me this week. Gee, I wonder who t...

It has been over twenty years since I have pumped my septic tank and I know that we are due. But Mr. Great Memory forgot the exact spot tha...

You either love the Grateful Dead or you don't, as the late Jerry Garcia used to say, they're like black licorice and not for everyb...

  From the New York Times : WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is rushing to approve a final wave of large-scale mining and energy projec...

I don't care where you sit on the ideological spectrum, if you have ever given so much as a penny to a political campaign, you are proba...

  I got word this morning that my good friend, the former Fallbrook resident Fred Young, has passed away from Covid 19. He died last night. ...

 

I guess we became aware of the problem about a week ago. A trojan horse type malware called search baron had taken over both my chromebook ...

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You get used to checking certain things out when you are a birder. I know the trees where particular birds like to roost. There's a tall...

My friends and readers know that I have had a long interest in history, genetics and ancestry. There is a thought provoking article on the s...

1969. Buzzy saw a guy with a case outside the studio, asked him what was inside and the guy said a flute. Buzzy said, "Come in and jam....

I bought some quail the other day at Major Market and asked my wife to cook them up for us. She hasn't made quail before but was game to...

I went birding today with my friends from Prescott, Bob and Sandy. We left pretty early. I took them out to my favorite place. It was a grea...

The San Diego State basketball team has the best record in the country since the start of the last season, 35-2. They are undefeated this se...

It was pretty much like manna from heaven, the twenty dollars I found in the envelope, an Andrew Jackson so crisp it looked like it had just...

I didn't get much in the way of meteors last night, saw a couple of them streaking by but it got a little too overcast and there was too...

My friend and long time Blast reader Helen works at the Bottom Shelf bookstore next to the library and has something to do with their newsle...

NGC 5248 - J.Lee/A. Filippenko/G. Kober Tonight promises to be great viewing of the Geminid Meteor Shower. I have the tripod already set up ...

  The wonderful writer David Cornwell, known to the world as John Le  Carré, has passed away at the age of 89. Cornwell died of pneumonia ....