OK...so I've been a member of my family for more than forty-four years now and am no closer to understanding these people than I was when some of them were changing my diapers.  Some of them turned out to be so much less than I thought they were that I find myself asking me, "Dude...is it you thinking too highly of them and expecting too much? Or ( Read more... )

OK...next year, no matter what...I'm going to Billstock!!  It's everything (almost) I could want in a weekend...friends, camping, boating, tubing, family, and, by all accounts, an annual weekend that actually does leave all the day to day crap behind.  Billstock has been an annual event for my brother Cal and his friends for sixteen years now.... ( Read more... )

Jamie and I just returned home last night after a couple days at
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Or amissing, as it were.  Ali (
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Please remember that I'm a newbie with this web shit....but here goes nothing
http://picasaweb.google.com/JGJGRider/JohnsonJob

This is one of the jobs that my brother Cal and I have worked on together recently...you'll notice that there are pics of the front porch and some of the front walk area, these are still pending projects for this customer.  ( Read more... )

Fair question....truth is, I've been working my ass off.  Everything is beginning to blur...when it all used to be so clear.  I don't really feel like I'm home when I'm at my brother's all week, then I almost feel like a guest when I get home on the weekend.  (Bear with me...I'll stop whining in a second)  I think once we finally wrap up this big ( Read more... )

So I'm driving to work Friday morning, listening to the radio, when this story about a woman that took either a co-worker or her boss (I missed that part...sorry) to court and actually was awarded a settlement for ... (kindly note the quotes) ... "lifting his right buttock and breaking wind in her direction".  This apparently scarred her for life. ( Read more... )

What if I don't want to put a subject?  Hmmm...anyway, I worked Monday through Saturday last week...FINALLY got home, blinked, and had to go back to work today. Where the hell did two days go? I have a dim recollection of being on the quad a couple times for what seemed like eight minutes or so, I did manage to get the jungle knocked down in the ( Read more... )

any child that hasn't been suspended by one arm and had to cover their tush with the other to avoid a spanking hasn't had a complete childhood. why can't the people that travel south on the northway every morning figure out that there's no reason to slow down at the twin bridges and cause daily traffic jams? (it's three lanes to the bridge, over ( Read more... )

This was the question on LJ's writer's block area...hmmm...first I had to look up epiphany, cuz I just wasn't certain...

1capitalized : January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ2: an ( Read more... )