In an effort to escape reality (I hobby I highly recommend) a few years ago my wife and I ran away for a week to a huge sprawling quiet resort in Playa De Carman Mexico. The place’s most amazing feature was its massive pool that wound and meandered through acres of lush tropical gardens and featured two waterfalls, two swim up bars, multiple ( Read more... )

I am the youngest of five children in my family. The closest to my age is 7 years older (a lifetime to a little kid) and I had not yet started kindergarten when my oldest brother went off to college. My siblings might have a different view but I do not think I was spoiled rotten like the baby often is. I think I was more ignored and the rotten part ( Read more... )

I have some friends that love to sleep. They plow through the daily grind of their existence just to get to the part of the day when they can conk out. Not me. If I did not have to, I would not sleep at all. It seems like such a waste of time. Not that I am doing much to further mankind and better society with my waking moments, but at least I’m ( Read more... )

I have a couple of routines that I tend to follow whenever I leave my house. If you are a house burglar gathering information to find out the best time to break into my abode, please do not read this… um besides I think the next door neighbors have much better stuff, no dog and look like the type of people that would leave a lot of cash laying ( Read more... )

After an extremely delicious meal at the restaurant Craft (very different then a dinner from Kraft) last night, my wife and I chatted about ‘our little hunk of the world’ while still riding our yummy food high on the somewhat long drive home. Our conversations like that tend to step off the beaten path and meander deep into the thick unexplored ( Read more... )

Due to some strange quirkiness about county lines, city boundaries and an odd Texas thing called Fresh Water Districts (which as far as I can tell do not have fresh nor any other kind of water), we do not have recycling collections in my neighborhood. This does not make it easy to be an average environmentally conscious kinda guy, and personally, ( Read more... )

Slowly drudging through the drab lobby, up the lonely echoy metal staircase and down the equally sterile nondescript hallway I finally arrived at the correct door. Even though it was a pretty nondescript wooden door, I found myself staring at it for a prolonged period of time, but sometimes an extended pause to catch your breath and collect your ( Read more... )

Last week I mentioned my holy trinity of filling but bland whole grain breakfast cereal favorites: The Grape Nut, The Shredded Wheat and The Bran Flakes. For many years now these have been the main, if not sole, staple of my workday breakfasts. I used to make fun of my buddy Mike because he would base his last meal prior to working on the concept ( Read more... )

Last Sunday morning while sitting on the bright red vinyl booth seats at a local greasy spoon, my wife lifted her full glass of orange juice to take the first sip and noticed a scary odd brownish colored liquid ring on the table below it. Before she had a chance to get too grossed out I calmed her down by hypothesizing that the spooky colored ( Read more... )

If all goes well (and how often does that ever happen) I will be starting a new job in the near future. It would be nice if my new career was being an independently wealthy philanthropist but unfortunately it looks like I’ll be sticking with my expertise and be a junior sub-assistant chief flunky. About three years ago I begged the comptroller of ( Read more... )