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A Short Tech Support Call With Apple
January 11, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Abble, ken I halp you? Uh, yes, I am trying to get an app for my iPhone and Apple won’t recognize my user name or password. This has happened to me several times before. I ken halp you. Vhat iss your passvort? Uh, that’s why I am calling you. Apple doesn’t recognize my password. Vaht ver you trying […]
Get Shorty
January 7, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
If you are a Boomer, you may have noticed that people your exact height are taller than you. This phenomenon occurs when Boomers continue to believe they are the same height and weight they were when they were in high school or college or the military, and then a random occurrence forces them to be […]
Living Large After Death
January 3, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Despite opposition from some members of his Republican party, and despite 87% of the American population being unable to pronounce his name correctly, John Boehner today won a second term as US Speaker of the House. In another joyous development, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter have been deemed safe listening fare by the Pentagon, while anything […]
Welcome to 2013. You can run, but you can’t hide.
January 1, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Back on January 1, 1541, it would have been tough to predict what the coming year would bring. Nostradamus was the only high-profile prognosticator around then, but, in the absence of tweets, iPhones, and The Anderson Cooper Show, most of his predictions were unknown to the general population. Most people simply went out their daily […]
2013: Resolving to Embrace the Unresolved
December 27, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Let’s face it: It’s pretty darn difficult to make any kind of resolutions for 2013 when we have just narrowly escaped The Rapture, The Mayan Calendar Flaw, and Mitt Romney. And, with only a few days to go, we are perched on the edge of The Fiscal Cliff and the only people who can save us […]
The Good Wife Guide
December 16, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
The Ladies’ Homemaker Monthly , a popular journal that began about 100 years ago, provided women with rules to live by. Their motto was “You can judge a good woman by how many well-dressed children she has and the contentment of her husband.” The Good Wife Guide: 19 Rules for Keeping A Happy Husband is […]
Unicorns, Starvation, and Sparkly Fairy Dust
December 3, 2012 by Life in the Boomer Lane
In an announcement Friday, the North Korean state news agency reported that archaeologists recently reconfirmed the discovery of the lair of a unicorn once ridden by an ancient Korean king. According to the Korean Central News Agency, the discovery was made about 219 yards from the Yongmyong Temple in Pyongyang. A rock that sits in […]
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Woman Drives 900 Miles Out of Her Way After GPS Error
January 16, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
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When this blogger saw the above headline on Yahoo News, she was sure the article was written about her. But a quick check of her surroundings informed her that she was, as usual, seated in front of her laptop, wearing her pajamas. She breathed a sigh of relief and wrote the following in response to […]