Today I completed my 49th solar orbit. Now I’m starting out on the big FIVE-OH trip. Normally I want these orbits to seem like they last as long as possible. However, this year I am kind of looking forward to getting this one over with quickly. Why would I want a year of my life to go by quicker? I’m anxious to get out of my 40’s, that’s why. When I was in my 20’s I was young but I…
I’m going to take a break from trying to be funny and write a serious post on something that is personal for me. My wife, Michele, suffers from a horrible disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis. She was diagnosed with this disease when she was just a little girl and has been dealing with it all her life. She has pain in just about every part of her body all day long. Despite that, she does her best not to let it affect…
Last Christmas, my wife gave me a book called 642 THINGS TO WRITE ABOUT. That was thoughtful of her since she knows I like to pretend to be a writer. So, of course, I placed it on a bookshelf and promptly forgot about it, which was quite thoughtless on my part. Fast forward to now, which is almost a year later. I saw the book sitting on the table along with several other items that my wife had planned to…
Thanksgiving is hands down my favorite holiday. What’s not to like? There is food, alcohol, and football. Those right there are three out of the four basic things needed to make this small cog a happy boy. The fourth one is sex, but really, sex is pretty much off the table after stuffing myself into a food coma. Oh yea, and being thankful for things. Of course, I am thankful for my family who is spread all across North America. From Virginia…
If you haven’t already figured it out by the title, I’m going to get a little dirty in this post. So if that’s not your thing, now would be a good time to hit the cat videos on You Tube. Still here? Yea I thought so. Continuing on… I have the ability to see/hear something dirty in just about anything I encounter. When I’m listening to music I often find myself involuntarily replacing the lyrics to make them dirty. Take…
Not a post. Just wanted to let the four people who read this blog know I’ve been off the grid. Back in a few days. UPDATE (11/01/16) – Well I am finally back in the land of Wi-Fi and the Blogosphere. The reason I was off the grid was because I went to my home state of Texas for my parents 50th wedding anniversary. No, regardless of what Non-Natives think about Texas, it does have internet. That’s not the reason. I’ll…
Several months ago my wife gave me a Go Pro video camera so I could record the hikes I take. She used to accompany me on these hikes but her rheumatoid arthritis has gotten to a point where she just can’t do it anymore. So she wanted me to record the hikes I go on with my hiking partner, Sawyer, the 100 LB wonder dog. That way she gets to watch them afterward and it’s kind of like she was there with…
I often jot down notes on my phone when I think of something to write about. If I don’t, that idea will be gone into the ether five minutes later. I was looking at my list of notes today and found one that simply said “Short Stoppers.” What the hell? I have no clue what I was thinking about on that one. Evidently I thought those two words would be enough to jog my memory, but I’m coming up blank. What…
Prepare yourself. This next statement is going to be profound. There are two types of people in this world. Those who love the movie Napoleon Dynamite and those that loath it. (There are actually two other types. Top TP rollers and bottom TP rollers. But that’s fodder for another post. For now, just pretend there are only two types.) I love it! I think it’s hilarious. I love watching it over and over. I love quoting from it while trying…
When I was a teen and first heard “Little Red Corvette” on the radio I thought the words were “Live and Collect”. You know, like the girl in the song was living and collecting guys as she went along? There was no internet or Sound Hound to look up the lyrics back then. Music videos hadn’t even come on the scene yet. I didn’t buy the cassette; I just taped it off the radio like all my other allowance challenged…