My father died today. He was 56.

Send happy thoughts.

And take a second to remind somebody that you love them.

So, Memorial Day weekend is going to find the lady and I at home, working, cleaning, relaxing, and pet-sitting my parents' geriatric cat while they're out of town ( Read more... )

My mother-in-law has a gift for finding "To My Daughter and Her Husband" cards ( Read more... )

About two months ago, tired of running and re-running power calculations for my work, a thought popped into my head ( Read more... )

Incidentally, I love the legal term "Acts of God". Not only does it effectively convey Man's utter ineffectiveness at controlling particular Forces of Nature or Happenstances of Fate, but it also slips in the point that this all happened because Somebody Upstairs doesn't like you.We're still getting used to New Mexico ( Read more... )

The lady and I are in Albuqiwuhrwuyque right now, taking a few days to get to know the city and learn about what it has to offer ( Read more... )

Man - you know an intermission gets long when even your loved ones start getting on you about it ( Read more... )

"I understand that hip-hop artists are fond of encouraging their audience to 'put your hands in the air, and wave them like they just don't care.' I appreciate the thought, but wouldn't a better expression of apathy be to do nothing at all ( Read more... )

In my job now, I've worked on a high school stadium, a two-story office building, and my big project now is a car dealership. How cool is that ( Read more... )

Richard Gere urges Palestinians to vote in their upcoming election.

Palestinians reply - "Who the heck is Richard Gere?"The US Army has been ramping up it's advertising in the last few months, focusing heavily on the honor you'll supposedly feel by serving your country while getting shot at by hostile strangers ( Read more... )