For the most part, I got it good ( Read more... )

Friday: Worked, then went home. Nothing much to it, really.

Saturday: The Princess Bride and I had discussed going to our local Studio Movie Grill (which is a place to order an overpriced hamburger and watch a movie, which seated around a table in a reasonably comfortable chair) and seeing either Angels & Demons, or Night at the Museum 2. ( Read more... )

Shame on the banks for lending money without ensuring that it could and would be paid back ( Read more... )

One of my very good online friends is going through a tough time. I'm not going to mention his name right now, because he really hates the attention. He genuinely believes that there are others in worse shape than he is, and all of the fuss and concern we have been extending his way would be better served spreading it around to others in even ( Read more... )

Got up, partook of the small pharmacy prescribed for my ear infection, ate an early Thanksgiving feast, courtesy of my wife and mother-in-law, went to Texas Stadium to watch the final Thanksgiving Day game there between the Cowboys and Seahawks (Cowboys Win ( Read more... )

The subject header of this post comes from a scrawled message on a boarded-up door from Galveston, Texas. I and four others from my department made the drive down to the Texas Gulf Coast in order to survey the damage for ourselves as part of the audit team. We are trying to gauge just how severe the loss is in order to determine a budget amount ( Read more... )

By the time you read this, we will have made the announcement to the rest of our solidery (congregation). As of the end of June, my wife and I will be leaving the beautiful Piney Woods of East Texas and wend our way north to the Mecca for Salvation Army operations in Texas ( Read more... )

After forty-two years of nearly-outstanding health, I have finally succumbed to seasonal allergies. I have had a nagging cough and sinus pressure settling right on my cheekbones for the last three or four weeks ( Read more... )

Today, I made the radical and (in some circles controversial) decision to take today off. Why? One simple reason: today is my birthday. I plan to party like its 1999! (of course, I was only 33 then ( Read more... )

Like many people, I try not to make too many resolutions, because like many people, I have a difficult time keeping them.

However, this year, I feel compelled to make some statements of intent for this new year.

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