Chappy Old Man

“In” Vanity Plates

chappyshi — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:44:38 +0000

I saw someone driving the other day in a vehicle with the license plate “YBU BME.” I may be wrong but that sounds like “Why Be You…Be Me.” In my estimation, this person must have an awfully inflated sense of self-worth. That’s something someone like Muhammad Ali, in his day, might have put on their [...]

Grocery Store “Butt” foonery.

chappyshi — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:18:26 +0000

The last thing I want to see at the grocery store is someone sitting on the counter where I place my groceries prior to scanning them. But when there is some kid who looks young enough to still be in diapers sitting there, I am likely to want to hurl. What are people really thinking [...]

Pictures from Vacation in Salvo, NC, on the Outer Banks

chappyshi — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:13:28 +0000

It took me longer than I had wished to get all these pictures together. The downside of digital photography is that we can take too many pictures and look at them before printing or publishing them with minimal monetary impact. Nonetheless, I spent the time and put together a set of pictures from [...]

Scary, Inconsiderate Drivers

chappyshi — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:06:28 +0000

The other day while I was getting ready to take a left turn on a green light (not the green arrow), the fool who was across from me waiting to do the same thing, decided to go straight and cut right in front of me just when I was getting ready to make my turn. [...]

I TP’d My Dryer

chappyshi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:09:42 +0000

I have been a bit dysfunctional lately as regards washing my clothes and…my accessories. Not long after I got a new phone, I washed the phone along with my wallet. I constantly throw pants in the washer with tissues in the pockets. The other day I thought I was quite safe after having [...]

Kayaking the Potomac River Near Point of Rocks, MD

chappyshi — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:37:11 +0000

I had quite the nice paddle on the Potomac River on Sunday, 8 August. We have had a dry summer and the rivers are down but, after a mass of rainstorms came through last week, the Potomac near Point of Rocks, MD, still had a pretty good current flowing. The water was crystal [...]

Fawning Over Falling Flora

chappyshi — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:11:51 +0000

We lost a few trees in the apartment complex due to the heavy snows last winter. I have been watching this one tree that was at the side of my building…just waiting for it to come down ever since early winter. Today we had some heavy rains with very strong winds. I had been at [...]

Greetings from the Outer Banks!

chappyshi — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:27:48 +0000

Trips to “Urgent Care” not withstanding (everyone is okay), we are having a great time at the Outer Banks (Salvo, NC). Thanks especially to Julie for getting the house. We have nice a house with pool and hot tub and are about a five minute walk from the, very uncrowded, beach. Of course [...]

America Gave Me the Bird…

chappyshi — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:50:10 +0000

And I took a picture of it!

Bald Eagle on the Potomac River

I had a great paddle on the Potomac River today. I put in at Algonkian Regional Park and just happened to look up and catch this Bald Eagle in the tree. It seemed totally unconcerned that I was hanging out below it taking [...]

I Felt the Earth Move

chappyshi — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:21:33 +0000

I just got confirmation on the radio that we had a small earthquake this morning. After hours of tossing and turning in bed, I got up at about 0500 and was sitting at my computer minutes later when my whole building shook. Needless to say I was a bit puzzled but figured it had to [...]