Larry's Log

It should have been easy. Even after spending all day trying to get it done I’ll still say it should have been easy. Two bolts hold it in place and two nuts for the wiring. The only snag is that you really can’t get it past clutch slave cylinder. Okay I took the slave cylinder [...]

It is somewhat disconcerting to walk out of one’s office to find the parking lot bathed in flashing blue lights. That’s what found myself faced with this evening as I left work to come home.
There is a company that builds custom vans for people with handicaps in the building across from ours. There was [...]

About half of this last year was spent in a small town half way between Philadelphia and Wilmington. The first trip through the middle of this town was right after a snow storm with the dirty snow piled up on the sidewalk. With the urban decay that had hit the area my thoughts went to [...]

I don’t know how this will finally play out but there is a case before the Supreme Court right now, actually it may be two cases, asking for an answer to the question, “Is the use of race to determine admittance to a public grade school (K-12) constitutional?” It looks like there is a very [...]

I was born and raised in the South by a couple of old fashioned southern parents. One thing they taught me growing up was manners. It was important to them that I say, “Yes sir/no sir or Yes ma’am/no ma’am”. It was also important to them that I say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when appropriate.
It [...]

Why is it that people who would never think of using a racial epithet have no problem at all using the names of dieties in exclamations? Both are equally offensive so why would anyone be sensitive to one’s racial or cultural heritage but not to one’s religious heritage? I don’t understand that.
Let me give you [...]

Charges were dropped against John Mark Karr in the Jon Benet Ramsey case due to lack of no evidence. But he still had the child pornography charges pending in Sonoma County, California. Right? Well, maybe even that case is in risk of being dropped. It seems that the computer that held the six images in [...]

I recognize that Islam is made up of people and that some will be violent by nature and some will be peacful by nature and that both groups can find justification in their Koran for their violent or peaceful nature. It’s the same with my religion, Christianity. I also recognize that when outsiders point out [...]

Young, fit women in tasteful bikinis are always a joy to me. Unlike some, I don’t view a tasteful bikini as clothing meant to objectify women but as a symbol of women’s sufferage. Can you imagine trying to swim in something like a burqa?
With that in mind, I’d like to ask you to join in [...]

I’ve been listening to a lot of the arguments, both pro and con, of putting Zacarias Moussaoui to death. While I understand the calls for a life sentence from the group that does not believe in the death penalty and the calls for the death penalty from all those who support the death penalty there [...]

I just read Dan’s entry about teenagers. It comes on the heels of a flight back from Philadelphia last night. A troupe of young teenage cheerleaders boarded the plane with their chaperones for a flight back to Atlanta with me. I was not too thrilled with the prospect of sharing the plane with around fifteen [...]

This morning I grabbed my packed bags and headed to the airport again. This will be the start of about a six week stint in Chester, Pennsylvania. Hopfully at the end of this period I will have wrapped up another project with expectations of starting another within driving distance of home.
After going through security and [...]

I’ve been plenty anti-European when it comes to people talking about the way things are done in Europe. It isn’t so much that I’m down on the Europeans, I’m just tired of hearing about a lot of the social policies they enact over there as being the best thing since sliced bread when I don’t [...]

It’s the question that makes men cringe everywhere, “Honey does this (dress/pants/jacket) make my butt look big?” The problem is that a gentleman nevers tells his lady that she could ever possibly be anything other than just perfect but other women will have no problem at all telling her she looks “big as a [...]

SmallTownMisfits.com journals those strange folks that we all know that find themselves on the local police blotter for some stupid thing they have done. I enjoyed the site and I hope you do too.