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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22714 – 964 Here’s the haps: An oldy from about 10 years ago. A sad but untrue tale of unpaid attention to detail. “How long have you been driving without a tail light?” asked the policeman after pulling over a…
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22713 – 963 Here’s the haps: I had the day off today because I will be working tomorrow and spent it with half of my grandchildren. Two teenagers who were neither sullen nor surly, a nine-month-old, a five-month-old, and a…
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22712 – 962 Here’s the haps: My system is very sensitive to pills and medicines so when I take anything I get foggy and crabby and sleepy. I have osteoarthritis in my thumbs, degenerative discs in my neck, a bum…
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22711 – 961 Here’s the haps: No, this is not a take-off of the Monty Python scene with the holy hand grenade but a bit of bizarre history I found. Before the invention of the printing press, scribes copied out…
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22710 – 960 Here’s the haps: There is a book called Foxe’s Book of Martyrs which details many of the persecutions and tortures suffered by the Christians of the early church. The link above is to a Project Gutenberg free…
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22709 – 959 Here’s the haps: I had a different topic in mind but I’m tired and not focused and I want some ice cream.
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22707 – 958 Here’s the haps: I’ve written about this a few times before so some of my regular followers know that I am named for my dad’s two favorite brothers, Herbert and Clarence. It still amazes me that the…
The content of this blog, my website and any other of my works in any other form are my original creation. They are not free to use in any way or form without my express, written license and consent except as provided for by U.S. copyright law. This includes, but is not limited to, use for training of generative artificial intelligence, large language models, and any other technologies past, present, or future which use any part of the work of the author.