Regular Life

Road, field, and sky through windshield at 4 p.m. CT Tuesday.
Note: That IS NOT a hillside back there behind the tree line.  That’s black sky.
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It didn’t seem to matter that the western hemisphere’s tallest cross sits just a few miles from here.
Frozen hell blew into town late Tuesday afternoon and [...]

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You see that boy sleeping back there? I miss him right now because I’m traveling for work, and I miss his mother, my wonderful wife of more than 15 years. The dog has managed to grow on me a little, too.
Today should have been my 30th post in the Wordless Wednesday meme. [...]

Unbelievable. I hate getting into the Mac vs. Windows debates, but I’m starting to understand why the Mac’s controlled hardware environment is attractive to an increasing number of people.
About two years ago, I wrote about my excitement at receiving great video editing software, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, for Christmas. Turned out, however, that [...]

What if someone you knew stacked huge hay bale walls and built a castle inside, unbeknownst to everyone but you? Would you tell? Would you use the word “unbeknownst” when telling about it?
How about this… could you keep it a secret for more than four years?
Well, unless Robert Fidler, 59, of England had [...]

Thanks to all who answered my call for help on Thursday’s post. I think I came to some of the same conclusions in a comment or two that a few of you pointed out later, but no problem. It turns out that all the repetition moved me to action.
If you read yesterday’s post, can [...]

I need help, and it required a visual aid. So, I decided to forgo a text post, skip the podcast, and go straight for the vlog.
Please click the “play” button. Give it a moment after doing so (in IE you might have to click it twice to get it started). Scrolling could [...]

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Update now that WW is over: The band is Jacob’s Trouble.  They performed at an outdoor Christian rock festival in Wilmore, Kentucky, established a year after Woodstock.  About 15 of us loaded up into a 13-passenger van and drove there from central Arkansas to join the 17,000-plus fans.  [...]

Is there a site you like to read, but it posts new material sporadically? Do you get tired of using bookmarks (Favorites), or (even worse) manually typing in a URL every time you want to check a site for new content? Would you like to keep up with comments on a blog post without having [...]

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I wish they would have had these pits when I was a kid. Just last weekend, when I finally got to see one, there was some lame rule about nobody older than 18 using the equipment. I stood there in my sock feet and sulked for about three seconds, then went [...]

I have been fairly easy to entertain all my life.
These days, however, it isn’t so simple. Books still do a pretty good job of earning my thumbs-up, but movies aren’t faring as well. Television, while it has the potential to take the viewer far deeper than a movie can, isn’t doing as well [...]