Category: Narrative

  • Solo with the short squad.

    Lyn’s mom is having some big retirement throwdown thingy, so today was the the first time I’ve been alone with the entire three member team of the short squad – as Lyn and I have dubbed the kids. I’ve been alone with them a couple of hours at a time before, but this is the…

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  • In a funk with the realization.

    Sounds like a Parliment Funkadelic record. The to-do list seems never ending. It’s a living, breathing, growing thing. That coupled with the somber realization that summer is fast retreating here and I didn’t even manage to get out once and scout a trail on the bike. The bikes themselves even seem to be conspiring against…

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  • Uh. Not much to report.

    Sorry folks, been out of the loop. Worked some mad hours for awhile and now can say that The Top 100 book is at press. I dare say it turned out to be more of a bear than the Miller Brittain book – and I thought initally it would be easier. I should have known…

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  • Guilty pleasures.

    Lyn took the kids to the inlaws this weekend, they left today. I’m staying here to do a bunch of work over the weekend (at the day job) as well as ’round the house. On the way home from work today I stopped at the local home improvement enormo-plex and got a few things I…

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  • I hate meeces to pieces and the birth of a nation.

    So we’ve got unwanted houseguests now. We’ve got mieces. Mice. Yeah, eating up the snackables in the cupboards and the birdseed in the garage. So this weekend job one was to get to the store (Walmart, for cryin’ out loud, I feel shame) and load up on Tupperwares and plastic bins to keep all our…

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  • My ‘to-do’ list can beat up yours.

    I’m gonna try and update this thing more often, even when I’m beat, so you get what you get. it’s Sunday night and I’ve spent the whole weekend in the backyard (good) up until when I came in a few hours ago to do some freelance (work on some lame-o website – bad). So, ‘can…

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