As I'm browsing the news on my lunch break today, I see the headlines about the coup in Thailand, immediately thinking: hey, my friend B is in Bangkok. He's on the opposite side of the city from all the government offices, but still has an Internet connection. I looked him up on an antique online game we both play and had a little chat ( Read more... )

...or at least I did yesterday. Most of the side-effects are gone now, but I had a grand weekend of drinking and running about in celebration of my recent birthday. I'm not entirely sure what happened to my knee, though it could just be the culmination of all the trips to the store on Saturday getting things organized for the few people we had ( Read more... )

Nothing like a couple of parties at the end of the week to make the middle of it drag along slowly. At least today I feel better about things in general than I have in a while... I keep waiting for it to come crashing down around me, though ( Read more... )

I'm feeling like a little attention whore today. Like when I was a kid and my parents would have company, and I'd jump up and down saying "Look at me! Look at me!". I'm digging for a big word to use to get all the adults' attention. Or at least a word big enough my dad will say, "That's my boy!" after he shuffles me back off to my room ( Read more... )

Well, W has to work this weekend, so I'll have the kids. I guess that's a blessing, because it might make it more likely that J & M will take us up on the invite for Saturday. We've known about this since sometime this weekend, but the ISP at home has been really flaky. I think they screwed up all the fine-tuning we'd done when they upgraded some ( Read more... )

Every day, I drive through Wylie on the way to work. Now, from what I can tell, Wylie used to be one of the less-pretentious Northern 'burbs of Dallas. However, now that Garland and Sachse have filled up, the disease is spreading. This morning, on my way around the back side of town (I bypass the stoplights and railroad crossings most days by ( Read more... )

I've been told that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. And our intentions were the very best. As I look back on the last ten years of my life with W, we did everything exactly the way we had to in order to look back on it a dozen years from now and say, "Yes, I did my best.". Unfortunately, as with good intentions, sometimes our best ( Read more... )

Well, I figured since I'm about to send out a few friend requests, I should put something up here relatively recent ( Read more... )

So I'm still in the process of figuring out home Internet access. So far, that's really been the only drawback to moving out to the boonies. That and the lack of trees, but a couple days labor over the next few Springs will take care of that pretty well. I'd love to turn the country property we moved out to almost two years ago into a writers ( Read more... )

I haven't written in here forever, but I haven't forgotten about it.