If there’s one thing on my mind more often lately, it’s gettign a dog… My younger brother went and got himself a great Dane puppy, my family hasn’t really had an active dog since Brownie passed a few years ago. Honey — god bless her, was a sloth who justRead More

Anyone care to answer? Anyone? Anyone? Which movie star was originally cast to play Mrs. Robinson’s husband in the 1960’s classic, “The Graduate?” Hint – he and Dustin Hoffman used to be roomates.

Fair warning people…. Eight more months till Christmas. Those shopping days are counting down to a very precious few.

Anyone else noticing For Better or for Worse is setting up for its swan song? I’m a regular comics reader — every day in the paper, sometimes the funny papers are the only highlight of my day (until the day gets going) and sometimes they’re the only good news toRead More

The NFL Draft begins todays and like usual there is a wide net of coverage all over the Internet and throughout the media… The St. Petersburg Times introduced their city editor as a blogger — Kevin McGeeve — to help cover the draft… That or to increase online readership? McGreeveRead More

Damn Spam Karma — it is treating some comments as if they were spam. I apologize to anyone who has commented and it hasn’t gone through.

Bah, this time at least take a guess if you don’t know the answer…. Anyhow — Trivia round 2 is upon us. In The Godfather films, what is routinely used as a death sign before a killing?

In your humble opinion, what do YOU think a Stonegauge is….? Or what do you think of when you hear the word? Oh yeah, and answering “You” doesn’t count :-p

Well, until I figure out how to get this page to look like it should – and right now it looks like shit because I’m still trying to figure out what I want Der Stongauge to look like – consider the site under construction. I apologize if the look ofRead More

It always makes me feel a little better when I get a compliment on something I have written… Especially when it’s coming form a higher up who is established in the writing community in some way, shape or form. That’s why I’m beaming over some of the praise I’ve gottenRead More

I have an odd Dilema with Baseball Boards. I have a very limited number of posters and lack of reputation under the current name. The lack of posting is hurting just as much as the lack of members is hurting. That being said, I’m still playing with the idea ofRead More

OK, I want to try to do a weekly thing that will at least keep me from being entirely bored with der Stonegauge…. It’s soemthign that I usually reserve for Internet Message boards and the like. So I figure it can’t hurt to try it here on the site. OK,Read More

OK so it’s only a poll on a cheap little mailing list (that I happen to run) but it’s sort of intersting to see that the 8 respondants to this poll only see a Segway rarely if ever out and about. With gas prices going up up up, the visibilityRead More

Great news to report regarding me hanging out with Leah on Saturday!! I FINALLY got my DVD’s — Resevoir Dogs and Equillibrium – back! Oh joy! Oh joy! 😀 I also got a wakeup call seeing an old friend and attending his wifes baby shower. I won’t go into detailsRead More

You know I just posted about wanting to plant something on April 29th…. It seems the City of Clearwater is giving away trees for residents (and this will likely be repeated depending on where you live): On TampaBayEntertainment.com: If You Plant Them, They Will Grow! – As the summer sunRead More

Didn’t realize Alex King was using this very theme I am employing. Gotta find something else… Cuz I feel like a knock off right now. Anyone want to suggest a theme? They are all right here….

John F – former Administrative Community Manager – FanHome.com John F – former Administrator – The MLB Forum John F – Administrator – Baseball Boards John F – Administrator – The MLB Forum? TMLBForum has had a whirlwind couple of weeks – a negative whirlwind at that. The owner threwRead More

Got another polite rejection in the mail today. Of coruse I don’t know if I would have really wanted to work for these guys. I had what it takes for the position they were looking for, just not the recent references. Oh, yeah, that and phone ability. I did aRead More

April 29th is National Arbor Day and wouldn’t you know it? I have at least oen tree ready to be planted. SInce I started harvesting the Laurel Acorns last fall, I’ve had 5 of them take and start growing, while my sixth Laurel sapling is 18″ and over 2 yearsRead More

I got nostalgic yesterday a bit not just because of where I was and who I was with, but also someoen I ended up talking to via email…. Eric Rosell, one of my best friends growing up – the kid aroudn the corner – got married in a small ceremonyRead More

You know, I’m a Catholic. Non practicing mind you — sorta Agniostic, but someoen who respects the Church at times and ridicules it at others…. Pope John Paul II’s passing is sad mostly because this is a very famous person who has been in the spotlight, at the head ofRead More

OK so I pissed off Melanie because I shut down der Stonegauge seemingly…. I also got a stern talking to from my comrade-in-blogs Tommy…. So maybe I will keep on typing? I mean, what’s the worst that can happen? I bore you? Of course I bore you – you’re onRead More

Right now I am down. I’m down about several things but lets go with first things first, secodn thing ssecond and all that jazz… I’m taking a break from the Stonegauge for I don’t know how long or even if The Stonegauge will be back up in the future. I’mRead More

From Worth1000.com Alas, only Star Wars fans need apply…

Click the title to be taken to my post regarding this article. Click HERE to read the March 2005 feature article by Tom Jones that is referenced in Life with “The White Bear”.

Mr. Rogers Emergency Code #1 — He’s not happy 🙁

The bad today was, of course, finding my sites hacked — baseballboards.net and forum.boltsmag.com. I wasted a ton of the day fixing those things as best I could. The GOOD? While I was fixing those pages, a road crew showed up at my place and tore out most of theRead More

When I was working in Target a few years ago, Michael Crichton’s first book in a while came out — titled Prey — and I found myself wanting to read it but also fearing disappointment because Timeline hadn’t been that great and Michael had seemingly gone off the deep endRead More

Seeing my PS2 is broken…. Try your hand at Proximity!

My GOD it is a gorgeous day here in Fllorida – Spring is very much in the air. The sun is shining brightly, there isn’t much of a cloud in the sky! It’s sunny! It’s bright! It’s warm! 75+ degrees! It’s perfect out there! I But… 300 miles out inRead More

I feel real weird sometimes when I accomplsih things for myself and by myself. Especially when it isn’t somethign that I have an official say over. Calling over cable problems a few weeks ago while my father ignored the problem and tried tos et up a phone line was oneRead More

Death Valley has come alive thanks to a wet winter… A once in a lifetime event, folks… That or further proof the climate is changing?

You know, there are certain people in this world who don’t get it the first, second or third time around. Petty apologies don’t make up for misdeeds they have done, and admitting their wrongs – while it may work sometimes – doesn’t mean they are going to start treading theRead More

How does the new header look? I hate the new version of WordPress…. It seems to make it tougher to do designs…. Oh well 🙁

Note to self – WordPress 1.2 was absolutely fine and wordpress 1.5 is absolutely messed up.

So my new bank is Bank of America… And there was much rejoicing…. Also taking another shot at this thing called job applications. Applied for two positions at Channel 10…. Cynical me doesn’t think I have a shot.

Boltsmag comes up #1 on MSN for the search term “ladies that clean your home in Montreal” And here I thought that my sites only catered to a small, niche user base…. 😆

I’ve lived on Tampa Road in Pinellas County for 16 years…. And until today, I have never seen it backed up as bad as it is right now…..

It took me less than 28 days – less than the month of February – to learn that my financial institution being bought out by a Ohio-based banking company is a bad deal for me. It took me less than a month to learn that 5/3rd National Bank sucks… InsteadRead More

SO me and m’lady are in Ybor last night… First time (if you can believe it) I have ever been to Ybor City. No I didn’t get drunk into a stupor and I didn’t go clubbing either. I was walkign around and exploring with m’lady and…. Well, we needed cashRead More

Blogwood and the blogsphere is how I found out Wal-Mart is buying naming right sto a local ER that will be built…. Yet Wal Mart is too cheap to spend some of their own billions of dollars on the 5 million dollar investment. They have to siphon cash off theirRead More

Damnit, it just won’t fucking end, will it? Another student was hit by a car while trying to get to the bus stop… Another person hit by a car for god sake! This happened at a location I have been at a lot lately – Curlew Road and County RoadRead More

Nice to have an old friend drop me a line — Robert, thanks for showing up man…. It was not so nice, however, to discover that my former love and my bane at the same time has gone the way to digital tumbleweeds, so to speak. Beatlelyrics.com is now aRead More

Johnny’s been on the go a ton lately. Yes, I haven’t updated Stoengauge very muchand with good reason as some can see through the last few posts on the blog… I’ll try to fill you all in more about things but then again I’d bore the shit out of mostRead More

Read my poem, “Socially Inept” here.

Stuck With You We’ve had some fun, and yes we’ve had our ups and downs Been down that rocky road, but here we are, still around We thought about someone else, but neither one took the bait We thought about breaking up, but now we know it’s much too lateRead More

I wrote this poem with one person in mind and it’s odd that it has come true in every faccet. ….well, almost everything… until now. Things might just be a scare but if not, it’s a serious issue has come up that coudl force a loss…. And no offense, butRead More

You know, last year I played the scorned and jaded lover… Last year I wrote about how I hurt and how I felt used and blah blah blah. I was worshipping Bitter Singles Day and writing a tome to them (which I will not link to tonight becuase I feelRead More

You and me…. in the bathroom on the beach…. Emerging one after another with a woman staring at us and waiting to enter…. And She’ll never quite know, nor will anyone else, what went on in there….

So Josh and Michelle are getting hitched Sunday and now that I have some time to cram on the gift — I’m hitting a wall creatively. Not hitting a wall but my first intuition is that the poem I was going to give them, framed and with art, isn’t goingRead More