Generation X provided us with nothing if not a rich variety of entertainment options with limited technology and a limited budget, and few films that have achieved cult status amongst those who grew up in the 1980s exemplify that fact as thoroughly as The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Those of you [...]

I lost seven pounds this week.  Pretty cool, huh?
One of the biggest pieces of advice I hear, pretty much from everyone, when I talk about losing weight is this:  “Don’t think of it as having to lose over two hundred pounds, do it in five pound chunks”, or “take baby steps and you’ll get there!”, [...]

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 [...]

Or “The Curious Case of Two Birth Certificates”
Recent polls have suggested as many as one quarter of all American citizens aren’t quite ready to believe President Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.  Of those seventy-five million voters, a handful – by which I mean a very large handful – believe he [...]

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.  [...]

This is my van.
It’s a 1987 Chevy G20 Conversion.  It’s missing two of the captain’s chairs, both on the passenger side, because the first owner had a wheelchair lift installed.  It, however, no longer has the lift.  There are a few rust spots around the outside, especially near the edges of the windows.  It runs [...]

The clouds rolled in from the west, a rippling ocean of mile high waves crashing against one another in a maelstrom of destructive force. Lightning flashed in its depths; explosions of thunder pealed through the sky, the roar of a furious dragon setting the very air aflame with blinding bursts of power. The [...]

Today has been an interesting day already, and I thought I’d share a few things with you.
Ms. Awesomesauce, The Digital Kid, The Coppertop, and I all got up at five thirty this morning, knowing some chores needed starting, and they were best done in the cooler part of the day.  (Adventure Girl was away, staying [...]