New Phone

WASHINGTON, DC, USA My apologies if any of my readers tried to email and/or text message me last week and didn’t get a response.  My phone was dying a slow death.  It took me about 5 or 6 days to get it replaced. I now have a new phone (same number, no worries), though, and the [...]

More surreality

WASHINGTON, DC, USA About two more hours until I head back home to NJ for the week.  This week at work has gone just fine.  Uneventful, but fine. I was just sitting here at my desk, and I remembered something from my trip to DC from a few weeks ago that I thought was worth [...]

Brilliant idea

STRATFORD, NJ, USA I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything, but I just had a brainstorm.  And I think it’s brilliant. Tell me this wouldn’t be a great name for a cat: Chairman Meow. Awesome, isn’t it?!

What I’ve been up to

STRATFORD, NJ, USA If you’ve been checking out my website over the past month or so, you might have noticed two things: I’ve been lazy about updating recently. This site is lacking in color. So, I thought I’d try to kill two birds with one stone! Believe it or not, I have been getting out of [...]

Lake-effect snow in NJ?!

STRATFORD, NJ, USA It’s like I’m back in Syracuse–we have had lake-effect snow in South Jersey!  I can’t believe it! It must be incredibly windy up in the ‘Cuse right now. I’ll try to write a new post in the next couple of days.  I’ve just been lazy. It will be a good post, though; [...]

Bad connection

STRATFORD, NJ, USA Hey folks. If anyone was wondering what happened to me, I’m still here.  But I have been having problems with my internet connection for almost two weeks now.  Hopefully I’ll be back to posting again soon. 

Featured? Thanks! But why?!

STRATFORD, NJ, USA So, I use this site called WordPress.com to write garybutterworth.com. For reasons I cannot explain, WordPress has made me their “Featured Blog” for the “Life” category, which is one of their most popular.  Cool, huh?! So, for the past few days, I have been getting dozens (yes, dozens!) of new visitors to [...]

Gary: Rutgers = “homey”

STRATFORD, NJ, USA Apparently I was quoted in the Rutgers University student newspaper seven and a half years ago. Among the many visitors included prospective student Gary Butterworth, a junior at Highland Regional High School, and his mother. They toured the Rutgers Spirit Shop in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. “I’m [...]

Labor Day, just another day

I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary today, and that suits me just fine.  When people ask me if I have plans for Labor Day, I love saying that I’m not doing anything special.  It’s even better on Labor Days when I have the opportunity to work.  I say that I’m boycotting a communist holiday. You know, [...]

Must See TV with Lawrence Welk and Larry Hooper

Way back in February, I posted about how my grandmom’s life is ruled by the TV.  I feel bad that I sometimes use the tube as a babysitter, but it’s not all bad.  The TV gives my grandmom’s life a familiar routine, which genuinely seems to comfort her, in addition to maintaining her circadian rhythm.  [...]