James Chamberlin

This week’s weather has been absolutely terrible. Monday, Tuesday, and today (Wednesday) have all recorded high temps of well above 90 degrees. At times, it was over 100, depending on where exactly you were. These high temps would be expected in July/August, but early June? It’s made for a miserable week. You just can’t escape [...]

The same computer I had to replace the case fan last week just got hit by a piece of malware. I admit I should be more proactive in keeping this system updated, but I’m disappointed in Zap2it’s inability to secure their own website. They’re owned by Tribune, an enormous company with a lot of IT [...]

I was busy working around the house, doing a few repairs which required the use of a hammer. I guess it’s been a while since I swung a hammer because it wasn’t long into the project that I smacked my thumb with the hammer. Ouch. Okay, that wasn’t the actual word that came out of [...]

Over the last six months, Charter has rolled out I believe two free internet speed upgrades and they haven’t been shy about saying it. At times, Charter’s ads for patting themselves on the back outnumber any other single company. I don’t think even Geiko can compete in the number of ads I’m seeing now. What [...]

I don’t know about other people, but I hate shoe shopping. Local stores don’t have my size (15!) so I have to do everything online. Picking the right shoe size used to be difficult until I began buying New Balance shoes a few years ago. When I was a kid, my mom would always have [...]

I hate being sick. Every winter like clockwork I seem to get sick. This time, I believe I have the flu and I blame my dad for it. He came down with it and passed it on to me like Typhoid Mary. Coincidentally, my mom got her flu shot two weeks ago so her immune [...]

After hurting my back a few weeks ago, I decided to return to the gym and see how things would go. It turned out to be one of the hottest days thus far this summer. Even though the gym has air conditioning, the owner doesn’t seem to have it turned up very high… or low, [...]

The last couple of days has been miserable. It’s been unseasonably warm for May. It’s been 93 degrees most of the afternoon and I’m absolutely tired of it. It sucks the life right out of you. The rest of the week is going to be anywhere from 79 degrees to 88 degrees. It’s somewhat of [...]

The job market’s rough. There are a lot of people out of work and a lot of competition for every opening out there. I’ve had four job interviews and I’d have to say the last was the worst. Well, it wasn’t really the interview that went poorly, it was something that happened at the end. [...]

Here are the pictures I promised the other day: The young man is explaining some design ideas for a ride to a man was told is a new employee, when in fact he’s actually the company’s CEO. In this instance, the CEO is Joel Manby, President and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment. I believe this [...]