Looking up as best we can

Our driveway gives us a good view of Orion's Belt, the three evenly-spaced stars mid-way up in the southern sky. The trees and hills don't permit a good view of any of the horizons, except for a slice of the east. So, we don't see the sun or moon rise or set, but there's still plenty of sky above. For my five-year anniversary at my last company, my manager gave me a nice set of binoculars to bring more clarity to our night-time viewing.

Some sports car drivers develop a heel-and-toe technique, where they have the toe on the accelerator and heel on the brake. Then, with a slight shift, they can quickly change from going faster to going slower. So that's how it's been as my doctors and I try to get the symptoms, treatments, and side effects in the right balance.

Thursdays can be hard days. All that was possible on Monday, if it's not well on its way to completion on Thursday, isn't likely to get done this week.

I think that the only thing that could make Massachusetts drivers worse would be for them to have Ozzy give them directions on their satellite navigation systems. His voice is available for the Brits and look what happens - they drive on the wrong side of the road.

We'll be taking up a collection to buy tin-foil toques for the students at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Citing concerns about the effect of radio transmissions on young brains, the president of the college refused to allow a campus-wide wireless network.

And, on the other end of the spectrum, so to speak, an Amish teenager was fined for wiretapping. What did he use, barbed wire and old cans?

If doctor's surgical equipment cabinet says Craftsman, you might want to get a second opinion. Now.

Wondering what to do with that tax refund? "Scooter" needs help.

Wisdom from Scott Adams to new graduates and to the rest of us who show up at work every day.