Author: hmelton

I ran across the Six Word Memoir Contest on the Smith Magazine blog. It’s an interesting exercise. Go visit and look at what other people have posted.

While working in my office, I heard a strange chime. It was my Newton, off in the corner, gathering dust, but still gamely trying to remind me to update a configuration file. That particular file hadn’t been in use in ten years, but the Newton didn’t know that. I opened it up and rummaged through… Continue reading Yellowstone 1994

Mary Ann is off in San Antonio with some buddies for a few days, so the house is very quiet. The TV is churning away silently, transferring all the Tivo’ed TV shows and movies into my EyeTV box so that they can become portable — but that’s just something I have to check on once… Continue reading A Quiet House