• I’d like a coffee table and a firefight, please.

    I wonder if Riad Q. Citizen in Iraq would like to know that a great deal of US servicemen/women over there have websites about their tour of duty in Iraq with pictures and comments and all that. Like it’s a vacation or something. I know it’s not a vacation. They know it’s not a vacation.…

  • My 3 year old is smarter than me.

    So my daughter Julia, has been blowing chunks for the past 3 days. That doesn’t make her smarter than me. That part will come later – and if blowing chunks made you smart, I’d be designing rockets right now. We took her to the doctor and she was diagnosed with a ‘tonsil infection’. I think…

  • Further evidence of the decline….

    The other night I got lost in a well-to-do subdivision on my bike. It’s dark. I sit at a stop sign and try and flag people down for directions. I tried 8 or 9 people. The would look me right in the eye, and keep driving. I never got directions.

  • Representative of everything that is wrong with the world.

    Yesterday riding home from work, I couldn’t put air in my flat bike tire at the gas station because I didn’t have fifty cents. They wanted fifty cents for air. If it’s fifty cents for a car tire, my tire would have used about 5. Is air a traded commodity on the NYSE now? I…

  • A view into the handbasket.

    So this weekend I get out for a bit of a trail ride at Wakefield for like the first time in at least a month. The weather is awesome, I’m havin’ a blast – I only regret I didn’t bring the dog – I thought there would be too many people out. Not the case…

  • Tales of cookies and procrastination.

    Well here we are again with another of my stimulating reports. Where to start. Oh yeah, how about my dad is a slacker and has taken way too long to get new eye candy of yours truly up on this site. I try to explain to him that my public and my fans demand fresh…