Posted on 12/24/2019 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Christmas
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren't celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn't need a "post everyday in December" stunt this year to do it!
We aren't camping …
In a lot of ways, families are just a collection of stories, all believed and held true by a set of actors known as a family. They can be biologically related, but they really don’t have to be.
So what happens when the story turns out to be false …
Posted on 04/19/2019 in misc • Tagged with Life, Personal, Food
Our first date was shortly after we met on Feb 21, 1987. I've told that story. This is the story of a later date. I don't remember when exactly; sometime between that first date and the end of the semester. I think we were back at her house in Zionsville …
I've done this for the last few years - pulled out my favorite selfies from the year and put them into a slideshow. Why yes, this is a low effort blog post just posting something I already made. Why do you ask?
Most people use New Year's resolutions as a way to procrastinate. Instead of starting the change today, for whatever value of today it is, we put it off to start on this break point we call the new year. Really, what we are doing is procrastinating. Any change worth making …
Posted on 12/12/2018 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Travel, Employment
Look up. There is a very good chance I'm in the air. My day:(all times EST)
Posted on 12/02/2018 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Technology, Food
Way back in the dot com boom of the early 2000s I wrote a business plan for a web app that would let you configure a shopping list to match your store layout. I was going to mine your list (data) to allow grocery companies to direct very personalized coupons …
Posted on 11/22/2018 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Thanksgiving
In 20+ years of writing here I've apparently never written anything specifically for Thanksgiving. That seems odd, but Google doesn't lie. There are no Thanksgiving posts on this site.
Thanksgiving was never a big deal for us. My Dad was USAF and except for 1 or 2 years in my …
An anniversary haiku, in two parts
At the Outer Banks
Anniversary weekend
Beach, booze, and seafood
It's hot on the beach
27 years later
I'm still hot for her
Posted on 02/21/2018 in misc • Tagged with Personal, History
Fuck Cancer
Thirtieth Valentine's Day
Thirty more coming
It's edgy haiku in the 3-7-5 format.
I just made that up. I have no idea if 3-7-5 haiku is a thing. If not, it should be.
I used to consume a lot of those candy hearts around this time of year …
Posted on 12/28/2017 in misc • Tagged with Site-News, Internet, Personal
This site went online on 12/31/1995, so it's going to be 22 years old. Like most things as they grow up, they get more risk averse, and let's just be honest here, more boring. However, 2017 seems to have been much busier than 2016.
Posts in 2016 - 37 …
As has become tradition, I posted an anniversary haiku.
Venus got her temple
Gorbachev got arrested
and I got you babe.
As of this posting, I've got over 60 likes on Facebook, and not one comment on the haiku. I worked in Roman mythology, cold war history, and, Sonny and …
Posted on 07/02/2017 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Books, Blogs
Back when I had young kids I had more blog fodder than I knew what to do with. These days, the kids are adults, and I work from home all day. There are weeks that I get to Wednesday or Thursday without putting shoes on. I'm not complaining. I'm fine …
While I was working on my epic favorite album of every year I've been alive post I started thinking about my first memories of music. So as something to discuss until I post the album list next week, here is what I remember.
The first song of any type that …
Roses are red
Violets are blue
10,959 days ago
I met you.
30 years ago today, in 1987, I met my wife. It was not love at first sight for either of us. But it worked out ok :) The story of that fateful meeting.
See you in 2047 for …
Cold walk to party
Met cute girl in passing there
She asked my friend out
Cold feet, girlfriend, oops
Friend set me up with cute girl
My girlfriend showed up
Indiana cold
Gentleman, I walked her home
She kissed me goodnight
The frat boy shuffle
Sorority Formal Dance
She kissed …
Posted on 02/08/2017 in misc • Tagged with Personal, Economics, Life
I've been thinking about stuff quite a bit lately. The US economy runs on stuff. If we stopped buying so much stuff, we'd crash the economy very quickly. It's so important that President Bush suggested we all go shopping after the 9/11 attacks. Maybe that's a way to stick …