Here I am at the start of another new year (or should I just say year, since due to the linear nature of time all years are new), and I just have this strange feeling that this year anything is possible. Driving to pick myself up some dinner tonight I was overcome with the sense that this year will be a very good year. I feel that this year I ( Read more... )

Snuffer's in Addison
Christmas Night
8 PM
Cheese fries and friends
Lots of fun

I just got back from a David Wilcox concert, two actually. And I can't tell you how cool it was. First, it took me two hours to get there because of an accident on 183. I thought I had left in time, but was stuck banging my head against the steering wheel (literally) as it took me 75 minutes to make the second half of what should have been an ( Read more... )

I love Texas. The weather keeps you on your toes. Today's high temperature: 89 degrees. Today's date: December 3. That, in and of itself, is crazy. But within twelve hours of that high the temperature will drop more than fifty degrees. Wow ( Read more... )

A thought from last week... when the world hears the word "Dallas" what is the first thing they think of? Is it the Kennedy assassination? Some of guys on The Ticket were talking about how Dallas was despised by the nation for a while after that fateful day in Dealey Plaza, I've never felt that growing up here, anyone else ever get that feeling ( Read more... )

Been very busy this week writing this quarter's PLRs at work. Worked late several days. Very tired. There may not be any entries this week because of it. Sorry. Deal.

Are the two terms interchangeable? I'm beginning to think that they are. They also happen to be the titles to two country songs, which you will probably find appropriate when I get to the end of this entry ( Read more... )

A couple things have happened in the past few days that have bummed me out. First, a friend of mine found out on Friday that she'd had a miscarriage, this was her first pregnancy. For some reason miscarriage have always depressed me more than other bad things that could happen to my friends, there is just something different about them. There is ( Read more... )

A quick lunch hour post on an article I just read ( Read more... )

Ok, I had a conversation with my dad about the One Campaign and I have a few new thoughts on it. I still have the same reservations that I did in my last entry, but I've softened a bit on it. First, I should place a higher value on the job One is doing in educating the American people about the problems and conditions in Africa. I think that the ( Read more... )