Lee Jones

Almost exactly 40 years ago, I stopped watching, or caring about, sports played by other people, particularly professionals. For the 2-3 years leading up to that time in 1970, I lived and slept baseball. I played it and I followed the Washington Senators (“First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League) [...]

Over the past weeks and months, I’ve been reading the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, thanks to a $3 purchase for my Kindle (more about Kindles in a moment). I have finally reached the third and final end of the series. The first ending of the series, Holmes was supposed to have gone over Reichenbach Falls, [...]

Dozens of people have gone to this shopping center, never to be seen again. Note:  the only change made to this image from Google maps was to circle the important part in red.

We left Omaha late. John had a finish a paper for a psych class he was taking outside of Berkeley, so I left him at Borders with their free WiFi. I did some laundry (woo-hoo, clean socks and underwear), filled the tires up, and then went over to the Horseshoe to actually meet the manager [...]