The album, Rio, by Duran Duran was my guilty pleasure in the mid 80′s. (Embedding may not work. If not, then try this link.) I had the cassette (remember walkmans?) and had to keep it secret from my friends. At least, I felt that I had to. We were also into classic and contemporary Rock [...]

Looking Good, originally uploaded by glindsay65. I’d like to introduce the newest member of the family, Smokin Motor, also known as Rio. He is a sweet-tempered, lovable, seven-year-old, retired racing greyhound. Today was adoption day. Rio came up for adoption a second time, after four years, when his first family was no longer able to [...]

I thought this was a joke: Travelers’ Laptops May Be Detained At Border Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed. “They’re saying they [...]