If you're looking for Matthew Appleton -- loving husband and father, Phillies fan, science fiction buff, geek/nerd of all trades -- you've found him... sort of. This is his former blog, and he has a different one he writes to regularly under a pseudonym (who could've guessed that companies would start using what their employees write on their own ( Read more... )

Three years ago today, I started this LJ page. I started a new LJ page a month ago, for reasons I've detailed previously. At the time, I thought would just turn this page into a generic message board for my friends and family to keep tabs on what's going on in my life. Instead, virtually all my posting has occurred there -- it's just easier for me ( Read more... )

New recent pictures of Tank are behind the cut tag. ( Read more... )

Ten years ago, I tore my left calf muscle playing softball. When I fully recovered from the injury, my doctor told me to make sure that I fully stretch out in the future so I can avoid a repeat of the injury. I've generally done so, but since really messing up my right ankle a couple years ago I've made a special effort to make sure I do so before ( Read more... )

Thank you to everyone who congratulated me on the new job. Just as a reminder, most of my posting is now happening on a new LJ page. If you are on my LJ Friends List, you can get the name of it from here. If you're not on it, send me an email and I will forward it to you that way.

Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of nannygirl's and my first date. I cannot believe it was that long ago.

Part of the reason why I started an LJ page was that so I can use it as my own little soapbox for whatever little thing I wanted to openly write about. The whole point of such an exercise was to make my opinions heard -- no matter how outrageous, badly reasoned or barely formed. However, with an increasing number of employers and prospective ( Read more... )

As those of you on the email distribution list already know, Issue #5 of Some Fantastic is now online.

I promise that for the next 4-6 weeks there will be far fewer posts about the 'zine -- that is until I start ramping up for Issue #6. :-)

I have the WWE on Spike on right (it's my yearly check back in on the wrestling world), and not only is Hulk Hogan still wrestling and using "Real American" as his theme music, he has also somehow become "The Immortal Hulk Hogan."

Does this mean he'll be wrestling until Tank is old enough to comprehend professional wrestling?

• Someone stole my lunch out of the freezer at work today -- I was hoping to rush headlong into going back on a proper diet today. Deflated, I replaced my lost Cheeseburger Lean Pocket with leftover timesheet candy. The fight begins anew tomorrow.
  
• There's a possibility of four softball games this week, two of which are tonight.
  
• For those of you who ( Read more... )