Regular Life

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Benjamin soared at a recent birthday party. Later, I threw him (pics follow).
This place was great. During the school year it’s a preschool with a gymnastics bent, and in the off season its doors are open to anyone who shells out cash, and their guests. The kids can play [...]

(Those reading my short story “They Keys Are In It” may go on to Part Nine. Warning: not everybody lives through this chapter.)
The month of Ubuntu has begun. I am typing this in the Ubuntu Linux distribution that I installed on Saturday, and so far things are going great, and they’re only getting [...]

Actual search term that led someone to this site: tips to manage 6th grade rock n roll band.
I can only imagine who typed that phrase into Google’s search form. A parent convinced that his or her child is destined to be a star, and wants to hitch a ride on the gravy train? [...]

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Whoa. Here is what we get in the Dallas metro area this time of year. Plenty more of this is expected in August. And look at those “low” temperatures. This isn’t meant as a competition. I’m sure there are folks reading this who have it worse than we [...]

I’m typing this in Wordpad on Windows 98, on a circa 1997 IBM Thinkpad 365xd (40MB RAM and 750MB hard drive). It’s a laptop leftover from one of my workplaces years ago, saved from the trash heap. What more do I need to type out my thoughts? I don’t even have a [...]

(Note: Anybody reading “The Keys Are In It” may now proceed to Part Eight.)
Wednesday night Benjamin did something that I thought warranted sharing in the form of an audio file. When I asked him if he would like for me to share it, he said, “Yes.”
Now five years old, Ben says rock ‘n’ roll [...]

(I’m ad-free again. That failed experiment yielded exactly $5.92 in a month — hardly worth slowing down my blog and selling my soul. Google will owe me that for the rest of my life because they don’t pay until the balance reaches at least $100. Now my category “I Wasn’t Paid to [...]

(Note: Those reading “The Keys Are In It” may jump into Part Seven. Those who have not started, give it a try.)
At Benjamin’s Fifth Birthday Party (with a Star Wars theme), the boys made up a role-playing game. In the middle Benjamin explains what’s happening and then uses his foot to emphasize [...]

(Note: Readers of “They Keys Are In It” may continue today with Part Six.)
Over the past week, between two bursts of working and hanging out in Memphis, I drove back to my hometown to visit family. The business trip had brought me close enough to family that it would have made little sense [...]

Tonight is what we call pack night. I stuff dirty clothes into my suitcase lid’s inner pockets and tuck my portable electronics into safe crannies of my laptop bag.
Goodbye, Memphis. See you again sometime.

Clockwise from top left: Where we ate dinner on Tuesday night; a purse in a gift shop window; the Mon [...]