We first read about Twiggy about 2 months ago. She had been taken in by a local shelter where we volunteer to walk dogs every so often. She was found tied to a fence at a local school, and one of the teachers carried her to the shelter. Whoever left her had starved her nearly [...]
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On Mother’s Day
I got my first job at 15 working in an ice cream/burger shop. After the first few weeks, the manager who hired me left. Her replacement did not understand why anyone would hire a 15 year old, and thus relegated me to emptying garbage cans and grease traps, restocking the deep freeze, and sweeping the [...]
Winter Beard Math
As we all know, the intensity of Winter and it’s slow decline into Spring has a direct correlation to the cut and thickness of my beard. To understand the correlation in very simple terms, too little beard can cause a sudden spike of freezing weather as March. Too much beard, can lead to uncertainty, and [...]
Things you learn…
Not necessarily related to anything, but I’m having a strong memory of when I was a kid – My father sold hand-made children’s toys at shows and malls. Usually, selling was the easiest part of the business he ran. He worked hard (non-stop, actually); made good, polished pieces; and sold them for what they were [...]
The Wise King – Khalil Gibran
I read Khalil Gibran’s, “Madman” in High School. For me, it was that fringe book that I read that no one else did, and so it became mine and mine alone. I think of the following whenever I do something stupid, like create a Facebook page. The Wise King Once there ruled in the distant [...]
Thursday Conversation
Noelle, “What was the West Wing episode that had Jeff Buckley’s, ‘Hallelujah’ in it?” Me, “It was Posse Comitatus, when they go see the play about the Henrys, and Mark Harmon gets shot at the same time Bartlet orders Sharif to be executed, then Ron tells CJ… OH MY GOD what is wrong with me!?”
New Year Reso.. *cough*
Alright, here we go. For the record, so I can feel ashamed of myself in 12 months: Drop and keep off 10lbs I don’t care how I do it. I’ve fallen out of running training again and need to see the orthoped about my knee. Regardless, I need to lose some weight, for real, nuff [...]
Asleep at the Wheel
My friends from New England often make fun of the concept of falling asleep at the wheel. I’ve driven through Connecticut enough to understand why. This is the story I tell to help them better understand how it happens. This really did happen to me on I-35 from Austin to Dallas, which has some of [...]
Quiet Time
I’ve been too tired, too busy, too frustrated, or too overwhelmed with anxiety to think about writing here recently. I hate that I feel that way. When I read authors that keep journals I always get a sense of pride in the things they do. I note that a major personal problem right now is [...]
Quite the Monday
I’ve been drowning in a work project lately. It involves writing a very long, very detailed document, and I can never seem to get ahead. Documentation is the antithesis of coding. Where coding is intended to take a very large set of instructions and minimize them into a clean, minimal file. Documentation is to take [...]