Okay, I know the two-entries-in-one-day thing is a bit much for most people, but I had to share.

I received an email from a friend in Atlanta asking for a translation.  From Girlfriend to English.  First of all, I don't have a girlfriend, and when I did I didn't usually speak her language very well.  (Note to self: find g/f who speaks same language ( Read more... )

I gotta lotta ground to cover since there are about 43.625 miliion things roaming around through my head.  I will try and order them as neatly as possible.  If you need a map to navigate the waters, see me, for I am a cartographer by trade and an orienteer by accident.

I am much better now that the weekend os over and I am sitting once again in the ( Read more... )

I know it's late, but after today I have to get this down before it consumes me.

My father left this earth in September of 1999, after what can only be described as an enormously difficult, though thankfully short, illness.  Obviously none of the Father's Days since have been quite the same, and my mother once told me they would understandably ( Read more... )

So I did what any self-respecting lunatic would do.  I went to the driving range and tested the effect of high winds on ball flight.  I was the only idiot out there, in the rain and wind and tree branches, but I came away with this tidbit: I am more at ease in the middle of a TS (even a dying one moving away), outside in the torment hitting golf ( Read more... )

I'm trying not to geek out too badly.  But what else can I do?  I mean I live for things like this.  Near-Cat-1 storm in the Gulf.  Headed to Steinhatchee (maybe).  High levels of shear in development, from mid-levels and high, as well as speed.  REALLY interesting cloud formations and activity near the CofC.

For those not following, I'm doing my ( Read more... )

I learned this weekend that the man who taught me how to play 9-ball had died.

Steve Mizerak, "The Miz," passed after succumbing to complications from cancer.

I spent two weeks in a pool hall in Palm Beach in 1985 by his side.  He was a legend in a young boy's mind.

And 21 years later I have forgotten nothing he taught me.

He will be missed.

I promise this won't turn into a sports blog.  But realize that I do alot of sporting and spectator type things, giving me something to talk about ( Read more... )

I write this since I feel inspired to do so.  I have no soapbox to stand upon, nor point to make.  Which somehow insinuates that I should be writing nothing.

It's just that some things I have heard or read today stirred something inside me.  Or maybe that was the Coke talking.

It was announced today that the government advises all people living in ( Read more... )

I have no grand illusions about myself. I tend to know rather well what I can and cannot do with aplomb. For example, I know I am not an exceptional blogger. I just don't have the time or energy or literary skill to make my life seem as interesting to read as it is to live. I had this issue with my last journal, too. I would go back and check ( Read more... )

Just listened to the two Gators get married on Mike & Mike. So beautiful. *sniffle* Think I'm going to cry... *sniffle* For those that don't know, M&M had this Marriage Madness thing on ESPN which was run during the NCAA tourney. The winners got to get married at ESPN in Bristol with basically whatever accoutrement they desired. Of course, it ( Read more... )