While I'm on a serious note today, I wanted to mention that both Greg and I recently read a pretty interesting book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". It's all about the punctuation part of grammar written by a woman after my own heart. I'm not a real stickler with other people's grammar (nor really with my own all the time), but I do usually note these ( Read more... )

Hiya! Some of you may be surprised to find that I'm somewhat "political". I mean, I'm not a politics junkie and I usually prefer that people "just get along" and I'm definitely not a fundamentalist of any stripe, but when I graduated from high school, I sorta came to the conclusion that an educated, conscientious citizen should be at least ( Read more... )

Gah! So despite being in DC, the trip was rather apolitical. But now I'm back and reading the paper and web again. Gah! After letting their usual automatic pay raise go through, the Republicans (an almost perfectly partisan vote) voted against raising the minimum wage to account for inflation! The minimum wage hasn't been raised in almost a ( Read more... )

We're back! It was a nice 4-day weekend with only a couple of drawbacks. Despite the rainy forecast, it luckily only rained on us when it wasn't inconvenient! Unfortunately that did delay both our plane there and the one back by almost 2 hours each. We didn't have connections to make or anything but it still kinda sucks ( Read more... )

I forgot how much I love Murder She Wrote, and that Angela Lansbury, she's one classy lady (even when involved in cutting up people and putting them into pies).

"We need to get ya some serious clown care, man."

So it's soccer season and the soccerballs are in bloom. I am going to try to follow the World Cup some this year. I do like soccer as much as any other sport at least. :) (I do get bored just watching any sport typically after about an hour unless I have some fun company.) I do need someone to fill me in on everything I miss and explain the ( Read more... )

So you're probably thinking "So David, I haven't seen ya in a while. Whatcha been up to?" It's true. I have been busy/out of town a lot. Last I talked to you I was moving my sister into her new apartment last week. Let me update ya ( Read more... )

It's so easy for a blog to come out overwhelmingly negative, so today I'm specifically posting a positive ( Read more... )

So my whirlwind vacation is on to something like phase 5. I went home for 2 days for a huge graduation party last weekend. Then I came back to Austin for a couple of days. Then I went to Houston to help my sister move for a couple of days. Then I spent an evening with some friends. Now, I'm resting at Greg's folks' house finally reunited with ( Read more... )

When I see a car driving dangerously and notice that clearly the car has already been involved in an accident or two, my thought is just how some people never learn.