It's always good to start with something positive. Yesterday I had an awesome lunch with a vet and his wife and for two hours I forgot all about everything else there is to worry about in life and retreated to a world where I can speak comfortably and knowledgably about something real. Plus they are going to try and throw me some work which would ( Read more... )

Maturity sucks. Really. More tomorrow morning.

I’m pleading with the heavens ( Read more... )

Not a good start to the day. A soldier from Oregon was taken hostage in Iraq and I feel bad that I am paying particularly close attention to it because of where he's from, as if his life is more important to me because his home is near mine. I feel the same with regard to the U.S. soldiers lost in Somalia in 1993 (the movie Black Hawk Down is ( Read more... )

It seems no matter how much I ask, people don't listen. It's okay most of the time; I speak quietly and most people move on to other things before I finish what I have to say. I'm used to being disrespected. That doesn't mean it doesn't piss me off. Just because I don't say anything doesn't mean it's not important, but rather that I recognize ( Read more... )

One last thing. This is a great picture from a wonderful Thursday evening. We all had to caravan back in one vehicle. Note Kate's beautiful mother gracing the shot as well.


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If I were to make a record, my track list would go as follows. The album will be called "Screaming in Silence ( Read more... )

I really need something to do ( Read more... )

I'm bored and these surveys consume time ( Read more... )

"There is a boy ( Read more... )