Regular Life

Wow. We hit 104 degrees here on Wednesday. A little thunderbanger blows through that night, and we get not one drop of rain. We wake up to a day with a high of 78 degrees, our first break from 100-degree heat in at least a month. It felt like San Francisco out there (only west [...]

I got off work right on time today, and on my way home I saw a fire truck, an ambulance, and a police car in the opposite lanes. Four cars had managed to smash into each other. Well, the guy in the front didn’t do any smashing, so I guess only three. All the cars [...]

For the second time in the last 10 years, I went to a high school football game Friday night. I went with my wife and our son, a 26-month old redheaded spitfire (also sometimes a firebrand). My first cousin’s son is the first-chair trumpet player in the Pilot Point High School band, and for the [...]

The author of Simon of Space has announced that he is in negotiations with a publishing company to have the book published “for real.” As in, not paying to have it printed, but having an editor and a publishing company handle his work of art and present it to the world, then send him money.
There’s [...]

It ended. Simon of Space, a rollicking ride around an imaginary universe, written over a fourth-month span and meted out to a loyal fan base with typos and plot holes galore (hey, he was making a lot of it up on the fly, and a story evolves), came to an end.
(begin obsolete paragraph)The good news [...]

Just a couple of things this morning before I start working.
On the way in this morning, a driver in front of me at a red light was brushing his teeth. I wasn’t sure at first, because all I could see was his head moving back and forth. When he tilted his head back just enough [...]

Have to share a dad thought (or more).
Ben loves to say new words, and often will repeat one until someone else says it in recognition. He always has had a bit of trouble with the word “placemat.” We have a few that only Ben uses, because they do not soak up spills like our more [...]

First, a little translation, because I’m surprise by how many people do not know this.
“Wherefore art thou” does not mean “where are you?” It means “why are you?” Juliet said it to Romeo not to find him in the dark, but to lament the fact that he was, in fact, Romeo, a member of the [...]

Lunch time post. Enjoy.
We went to Oktoberfest in Addison, TX on Saturday. Turns out we probably should have just skipped it… also, my first time in years to get pulled over by a cop…
The weekend started off well enough. We ate, in-laws’ treat, at an Italian restaurant in Plano called Paparazzi. The food was great, [...]

On my drive into work this morning, three people caught my attention, each in a very different way.
The first was a lady in a shiny black luxury sedan of nondescript styling that matches about any late-model luxury car. As I headed down a connecting street at about 35 mph, two lanes going my direction, she [...]