The other day, I went to Meijer (regional grocery chain) to buy some cheese.  Since I was going to shred it anyway, I thought that I might as well buy it already shredded since it was the same price.

But then I noticed that they had two kinds; regular and fancy.  Since the regular looked like regular shredded cheese and the fancy looked like finely grated cheese, I chose the regular.

A number of years ago, I purchased an Anti-virus software package.  When the license expired, they offered me the option to renew it on line.  And so I did.  And, each year when it was time to renew, the license fee increased.

At first, the renewal fee seemed reasonable.  But after a while, I discovered that I could buy the last version in the store cheaper than I could renew it on line.  And so, that is what I have been doing.

I would have thought that renewing on line would be cheaper for the software company than packaging and distributing a disk.  But, what ever.

With the passing of Nelson Mandela, a group of people wanted to memorialize him by posting a picture of him along with all of his accomplishments.  Unfortunately, the picture that they used was that of Morgan Freedmen and not Nelson Mandela.

I wonder if they listed all of Morgans movies?

I looked out the kitchen window this morning and saw a Pileated Woodpecker hanging off of my suet feeder.  I was surprised to see this and tried to get a picture with my iPhone.  but, the big guy flew on to a nearby tree.

At 18 inches in length, these big birds are very shy, so I was glad to get this photo.  He flew off moments later.

Well, I guess that explains why I am running out of suet so quickly.

Just before Christmas, my Grand Kiddies assembled a gingerbread house.  And, they were told that they could not eat it until after Christmas.

So, after Christmas, they dug into the house only to discover that it wasn’t very tasty.  Consequently, I was left with a gingerbread house that no one wanted.  So, I threw it outside under the bird feeder.

Now, the squirrels did not know what to make of it.  They would approach it, sniff it, do a back flip, and then run off.  Moments later, they would return, take a guarded bite and then run off.  And, they repeated this activity all afternoon.

Well, the house is still there and I suspect that it may be there come spring.

I love unenforceable rules.  What is a communicable disease and who is going to check for it?

I guess you can consume Tequila!

Recently, a woman announced that she has consumed 8 mattresses in her life time.  Apparently, the woman has an eating disorder and needs to eat mattresses.

I wonder if she prefers twin, full, queen or king?

I recently saw an ad for “Organic Kitchen Faucets”.  Somehow, I never think of plumbing as organic.  I guess that means that they were produced without any fertilizers or pesticides and that would be correct.  So, I guess that they are in fact “organic”.

I also wonder if they were free range faucets?

While I was flying the other day, I found an iPad sitting on top of a urinal in a restroom at the terminal.  I was uncertain as to what I should do but I figured that who ever had forgotten it would soon come back for it.  So, I left it there.

But, Cheryl pointed out that I should turn it in as the next person to find it might not be as honest.  So, I went back for it.

At first, I tried to turn it in to the TSA folks but they wanted nothing to do with lost and found and suggested that I turn it in at the gate.  The gate people were happy to assist and quickly determined that there was no ID tag on the outside.  But, on checking the i Pad database, they were able to determine that it belonged to a woman.

I pointed out to the gate crew that I had found the i Pad in the MEN s restroom.  So, unless this person was having a gender identity problem, the woman was probably not the person who had left it there.  But, they paged the woman several times with no success.  Finally, it was time to leave so I don’t know what ever happened to the i Pad.

I found the whole event to be rather unsettling.  I didn’t like the fact that someone would not notice that their i Pad was missing.  And, I didn’t like that fact that it was right in front of them as they were leaving.  And, I didn’t like the fact that the owner of the i Pad appeared to be a woman.

I suspect that the TSA will be showing up at my door any day now.