Author Archives: Granger Meador
Mr. Fix-It and the GE Ice Maker
Home appliance repairs are hardly my forte, but I have successfully replaced motors in bathroom fans, done minor repairs to our furnace, oven, and a washing machine, and managed to replace home thermostats and install a doorbell camera. Living on … Continue reading
Zeus Zapped the TV
Boom! The thunderous crash seemed to coincide with the brilliant flash of light outside the back bedroom window around 9:30 p.m. on April Fool’s Day of 2026. A lightning bolt had struck quite near Meador Manor. The cable modem lost … Continue reading
Reading & Watching Rinehart
American mystery author Mary Roberts Rinehart was described as our version of Agatha Christie. Some years ago I read most of Christie’s 66 detective novels and various short-story collections, excepting the Tommy & Tuppence ones, and at this point I’ve … Continue reading
Bricking Books?
Back in 2008, I bought the first generation Kindle e-reader from Amazon. It was fun but somewhat awkward, with a keyboard of tiny buttons below the screen and big page turn buttons on the sides, plus an odd little scroll … Continue reading
My Last Enterprise
In 1972, I flipped on our new color television one afternoon and saw a man with pointy ears appear from nowhere in a corridor and begin sneaking around. I remember thinking, “Is that some sort of ghost?” I continued to … Continue reading
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