After an uneventful Senior year at college, I went right to graduate school locally, working odd jobs. Life was busy and hectic at times, but overall carefree. I lived at home in the house I grew up in, visited my grandparents a lot, and dormed on occassion. I never seemed to make one of my [...]

I always tell people I can’t even draw a stick figure. Today I tried at the prompting of my sister Moo. Based lightly on the artwork of Rich Burlew’s “The Order of the Stick”, I gave it a shot using my main graphics editing tool, PaintShopPro. Here it is … a manager at a hotel [...]

Much of my writing the last couple years has emulated my experience that most of the wackos out there are politically on the left these days. I had a tough time finding right wing extremists out there. (Everyone totes the sames ones out in such a discussion. Sorry, Rush Limbaugh has a clear to-the-right agenda, [...]

My wife has lost and found her voice a number of times the last couple days, and we use IM to communicate. Who would have thought?

I got an email passed around from someone I know “proving” that people who follow Islam can’t be trusted Americans. All the arguments were really dumb, and filled with blatantly wrong assumptions and “facts”. SO, as I usually do — but sometimes think I shouldn’t — I sent back an email to anyone receiving it [...]

Ever since last February when I had an all-you-can-rent special at the video store, I’ve really looked to movies as a source of entertainment. Well, I did it again. For $10 the first month, $17 therafter, I can rent three movies at a time by mail, including all the classics and other movies the store [...]

I have never done more site designs, re-designs, additions and updates in one week than this one. Actually it started getting crazy last week, but I’m fighting to keep up. I don’t want to be like other designes to “get around to it” — if I can’t make a change in a few hours or [...]

I did get to spend some time with Chrissie today … I forgot to grab the pictures from the father-daughter dance. It’s official … her friends say I “don’t dance well” but have no idea how I danced like I did. That sounds about right, considering I wasn’t that warmed up and never did dance [...]

That was a title of an email I received. They are too {insert hyperbolic adjective here} not to post on my personal forums. They show a very different picture of Iraq, and in my introduction to them, I explain why. Everyone needs a dose of reality, or at least perspective, and it isn’t available in [...]

I think we both had a great time. But I’m not posting pics of me beardless. I’m highy unphotogenic. But I did add a userpic based on a blogging friend of mine, “Pork Tornado” (Dusty Scott). I ate a lot of misc. munchies and the music was widely varied. I didn’t warm up on the [...]

Almost forgot, but thought it worth mentioning, now that one of David’s relatives emailed me out of the blue. I saw Jessica shopping at Big Lots the other day. She looked nominally the same on the outside, but seemed like a totally different person. I can’t really describe it, but it’s like she’s been domesticated [...]

I shaved for the Father-Daughter Dance tonight. On another note, my computer is freezing up due to RAM issues … I’m on 256Mb right now while running WinXP, and my needs are greater than most, so I’m limited to one or two larger applications at a time. It may be time for that major upgrade. [...]