I came across the Johnny Cash / Bond video below while browsing around You Tube for another project. And what project is that I hear you all ask?

Well, while posting the latest Beatles related updates and video clips over on Blog Me Do, I realized that I have been using the year of my wonderful wife's birth as a search term in which to track down ( Read more... )

My god-daughter showing the right amount of respect for a squawking pepper-pot...


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Wow that came around quickly.

Tonight is the first high-school football game of the season ( Read more... )

Left the house a little early this morning to drop Erin off at school, so ended up with a spare 40 minutes or so before I needed to be at the office. Rather than head in and get sucked into the usual morning mass of business emails I decided to kick back and relax for a while, stopping off at a Starbucks for a coffee and a quiet half hour's reading ( Read more... )

When your kids are born there are certain things that you imagine yourself doing with them that become milestones you look forward to with great anticipation ( Read more... )

I knew the day would come, but when it did on Saturday, while I was prepared for it, it still seemed unreal ( Read more... )

After doing the usual weekend routine bank, grocery, gas and Starbucks runs in the morning, Gill and I decided to spend the rest of Saturday enjoying the Texas Hill Country. We often take the places we live for granted, something I've been all too guilty of in the past. We've lived in Austin for over three years now and have barely scratched the ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening as we all arrived home from various work places and school, it seemed we all had identical thoughts.

Let's put what we had planned for the evening aside, and watch "A Knight's Tale."

There's not many movie actors that all four of us enjoy watching, but topping that short list was a talented young man named Heather Ledger.We ( Read more... )

I have the power as a newly minted US citizen...

I can make a difference.

My voter registration card has arrived.

Election 2008 has just taken on a whole new significance for me.

So as part of her day job Gill gets to spend every Tuesday in court. As she needs to really concentrate on what's going on any e-mil exchanges we have on Tuesday's tend to be short.

I think this one-liner from today in response to me asking how the day was going must easily be one of the all time classics..

Court is nuts! Masturbation, drugs and ( Read more... )