It has been a long time since I've updated this, and I do apologize. You'll have to wait a little longer, though. I just don't feel like writing much of an update right now. I do want to mention that today I friggin flew an airplane, and it was so much fun. I even got to see my house. Thank you, Angie, for the wonderful present.

The derivative of something can be rather large-ish. Just yesterday, I wrote a blog/note/whatever about how I might be looking around the local job market. It was evidently read by someone in a position to potentially perform feats that might keep me fat and happy in EAS for a while. It may or may not have been read by Preston, who IMed a job ( Read more... )

So I sat down at the keyboard, prepared to write an overdue note about the entire month of May. Much to my happy surprise, I wrote a note like two weeks ago. Score ( Read more... )

I figured it was about time for a new note, but uhh....I kinda forgot what it was I was going to put in it. It's hard getting old. Not only does your memory go, but the human body wasn't designed to last beyond 25. Or, it seems like mine wasn't at least. I started running to get myself in shape, but then my knees started hurting. So I stopped ( Read more... )

I generally avoid discussing politics on the blogotubes. It is about as useful as lighting your leg hair on fire in the hopes that it will rain next week. However, the political situation makes it necessary that I weigh in. The next president will need the support of the key People-Who-Give-A-Damn-What-Ben-Thinks demographic, and so I must make ( Read more... )

Friday was one hell of a day kids. Of course we started with the earthquake. That was AWESOME. That night, Angela fell asleep on the couch, so I thought I'd be a nice husband and make dinner, even though it was her turn. What a mistake that turned oot to be. As I was slicing the onion, the knife slipped and make a nice slice in my thumb. That ( Read more... )

It seems I may have hung the "Mission Accomplished" banner a bit too early. When I awoke this morning, I found the steps to be rather on the wet side. Oh yeah, and there's big bubbles of water in the paint at the bottom of the stairs (fortunately, we hadn't painted it yet). Well shite. After a little bit of experimentation, I determined that the ( Read more... )

So today is the...what...the 23rd-ish? I've been eating oatmeal every morning for nearly a month now. You can just hear the cholesterol disappearing. Of course, some of that is offset by the nuggets (68 last weekend -- how awesome am I?), but you'll get that. Tomorrow, I'll probably take advantage of a significant sale at MC Sports to get a b- ( Read more... )

I fix0red the dryer! All glory to the hypnoBen. My dear father-in-law diagnosed the problem over the phone, and I went to the parts store to get a new blower wheel. On Saturday, I got around to actually installing it. Suddenly, a dryer that sounded like a drunk Fred Astaire became as quiet as a drunk Marcel Marceau. Of course, I couldn't get ( Read more... )

So I have the best wife ever. On my birthday, we were going to O'Charley's for dinner. Yum. She goes in to get us a table while I park the Jeep. When I finally find a spot, I walk back to the restaurant where apparently we already have a table waiting. I follow her back to the corner and realize we're about to be sat at a table with a bunch of ( Read more... )