Wow.  It’s been almost three weeks since I’ve written anything.  That’s three weeks without a weigh-in, three weeks without my wonderfully witty banter, and three weeks of digital blight upon my domain.  Get it?  Domain?  Like dot com?
Ahem.  Right.  Rapier wit, indeed.
I haven’t been idle, however!  This has just been crunch time at school, and [...]

I’ve had a number of people ask me a question I should be quite capable of answering, yet for some reason I’ve yet to come up with a suitable response.  Why, they ask, haven’t you finished writing a book? It’s a fair question.  Contrary to what you might read here, I’m a fair hand with [...]

What’s this?  A mid-week post?  It is!  It is indeed!
I’m afraid I’ve left the tremendous number of readers I have here (all three of you) a little in the lurch by not posting anything but Friday weigh-in blogs.  Well, this is not a weigh-in post, and it’s not Friday, so rejoice!  After all, I’m only [...]

Holy cow, has this week been busy!
School started on Monday for the kids, and Tuesday for me.  I was scheduled to be there Monday evening, but the Spanish class was canceled.  Fortunately, I found another – and I say fortunately because I’m truly enjoying the class so far.  It’s small, with only five students, and [...]

I’m finally all set and ready for school.  Classes start next week, with the body of the day starting on Tuesday, but night classes the evening before.  That means next Monday at 6PM, I’ll have my first Spanish class in twenty five years.  That’s right, I took Spanish from kindegarten all the way up to [...]

I got my tire pell up.  For those who don’t know what a “pell” is, well, a definition and little history lesson is in order.
A pell is an immobile target used to practice combat skills.  Pells have ranged from simple poles sunk into the ground for stability to complex designs with moving parts that simulate [...]

I owe everyone who normally reads this blog a sincere and honest apology for letting such a horrible joke stay at the top of the page for two whole days.  If I bow and scrape enough, will you forgive me?  Not that I can bow down all that far quite yet, but it’s coming along.  [...]

I was up early this morning, brought suddenly awake by a wrong number dialed to my cell phone.  Being wide awake – and I was, at least then, though I’ll admit to being a little bleary now – I ran through a quick check of all my social networks.  Now, normally I don’t use Twitter [...]

Parkour.
Freerunning.
Are these terms familiar?  I’ll admit, I had heard neither of them until a couple years ago, when something I saw on television prompted me to investigate.  At the basic level, parkour is the art of efficiency in motion, the ability to get from Point A to Point B with as little deviation as possible.  [...]

The typical tale tells of a young boy bringing bugs, snails, slugs, and other creepy crawly things into the home.  After all, it is the role of the adolescent male to be the adventurer, right?  To find the odd, the weird, to imagine the most macabre scenarios about things and creatures of all sorts.
Well, not [...]