I forgot to write yesterday about the very inspired effort that Gavin's soccer team made on Saturday morning ( Read more... )

At this time tomorrow I'll be on board a short flight with a destination of Las Vegas ( Read more... )

I cannot believe I'm flying to Las Vegas a week from this Saturday. It seems to have just crept up on me ( Read more... )

In a few minutes I'll be heading into Portland to take the kids to see The Gaslight Anthem (and openers Fake Problems and The Menzingers). The first band doesn't even play until 9PM and I suspect we won't get out of there until around midnight. Figure 20 minutes for the drive back and we're talking about two boys -- 13 and 10 -- up till 12:30 on a ( Read more... )

My good friend (an "parallel life brother") Rich recently posted his contribution to a "meme" that is making it's way around the Facebook and blogosphere universe that asks people to do this: List 15 albums (or 8-tracks o cassettes or CDs, depending on your generation) that have truly stuck to your ribs since the first time you've heard them. I ( Read more... )

I've very much been enjoying being an assistant coach for Gavin's soccer team. It has been entirely too long since I coached (the last time was when Bailey, 13, was in 1st grade!) and it is considerably more fun than being a referee, which I took on for about 3 seasons in our former city ( Read more... )

My wife and I got a kitten out in front of a Safeway about 6 months before we got married. He lived with me and my roommate (who was really quite awful to him) until she moved out, I got married, and my fiance turned wife moved in. "Tuba" was our first pet but, sadly, he was hit by a car along our busy street about a year after we got him. He was ( Read more... )

There are days when I truly miss the period in my life that I updated my Livejournal on pretty much an every other day average. Like so many, I've seen that kind of consistency fall by the wayside, as the social-network-that-shall-not-be-named offers more instant gratification and, quite frankly, a higher number of people I've actually met face to ( Read more... )

I feel so out of the LJ loop. My paid account expired and while I won't be shutting down the journal I am wondering if I am getting my full $25 a year's worth out of it. Still, it might be worth it just to keep all my Get Fuzzy related user pics ( Read more... )

Ya know, I always swore I was not going to become one of those writers who habitually writes about his kids. And, in giving myself a little bit of slack and/or credit, I'll preface this entry by saying that in my many years of blogging/journal writing I have, more often than not, only written about my kids in the context of learning something from ( Read more... )