Regular Life

Our trip is going well so far. Shannon and I have had plenty of time to go out after I finish my work each day.
Wednesday night, we went to Fayetteville (Arkansas) and enjoyed a park that we couldn’t believe we’d never visited in the five years we lived in that area. Sadly, it [...]

This picture of baby Benjamin seemed like the perfect choice to move from Anna’s wonderful Project Yellow to my first project. I don’t have the original with me on the road, so I had to pull this small version from an old online album. It doesn’t get very big when clicked.
Below is the [...]

At the DFW airport Sunday afternoon, a TSA lady greets me as I walk through the security scanner. She looks at my shirt and says, “Arkansas Raisinbacks?”
I let it go. “You bet!” I say.
She smiles. “Okay, den, go Raisinbacks.”
I laugh as I pull my x-ray-blasted belongings from four gray plastic bins. [...]

(Note: I finished up my Project Yellow contribution on Sunday afternoon)
Alcohol. It’s been a popular drink pretty much since man first laid lips on it. Shortly after, with a devil dancing on his shoulder he handed the drink to a woman, and said, “No, it won’t affect your judgment.” Then, he perfected [...]

In our minivan on Saturday, I created a monster.
Make that four monsters.
Benjamin rode along with Shannon, her mom, her cousin, and me. He joined them in pointing out everything yellow — storefront awnings, road signs, vehicles — you name it, they saw it. While I appreciated their participation at first, it began to [...]

My first (and still only) car that I got brand new was my 1989 Dodge Shadow.
In August 1992, Shannon and I got married and drove my most prized possession from Little Rock, Arkansas to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It carried us to Gatlinburg and many surrounding sites in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Condoms, [...]

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I think I kind of got kicked out of a store on Tuesday. You be the judge.
On my lunch hour that day, all I wanted was something sweet after my two spicy chicken soft tacos at Taco Bell. Funny how spicy food does that to me. Or salty food. [...]

Anna issued a challenge several days ago for all of us amateur photogs to post pictures featuring yellow. She called it, aptly enough, “Project Yellow.”
Monday at my desk I decided to join the fray and ventured a mere two feet to find my first subject. In fact, I didn’t even have to get [...]

This post is about two more firsts in my life — one just fine and one kind of scary.
Sunday afternoon, Ben and I joined He B and his son for a football game. It wasn’t NFL. Heck, it wasn’t even AFL. Nope, this was IFL.
For those I lost after the first acronym, [...]

There’s nothing I could say that this video doesn’t — but anybody reading here for very long knows that rarely slows me down. I’m no expert at how an animal feels, however, so I’ll just present my little video and go on about my day (er, um, night).
I will say that I laughed heartily [...]