A geek and a father tries to empty out the mess that is his brain. Watch your step - it’s messy in here…
OK, OK, I know. I was supposed to do this every Saturday. Last weekend I was busy.
We went to Scarborough Fair. It’s one of those Renaissance Festivals here in Texas. My wife had mentioned going to it for quite a few years, and to be honest, I always just blew it off. Last year, though, [...]
I was at my daughter’s Whiz Quiz competition today. It’s like jeopardy for junior-high kids. It was our turn to provide refreshments, so I had to get there early. I figured I’d just bring a book and hang out until the competition started. Little did I know the other team was coming from 4 cities [...]
My mind is a mess. It’s nothing new.
But my son is practicing the piano.
The election is tomorrow. I can’t wait until it’s over. All this anger from so many sides. Anger that so often leads to blatant stupidity. I hear the bleating of millions of idiot sheep in my head, and it wants to drown [...]
Holy crap.
I’m way out of practice here.
Last night I thought I’d throw a blog up over on the geek side. That was friggin painful. I haven’t written a damn thing in a while, and it shows.
Sometimes things are more important than this kinda thing, though. And this summer was craaazzzeee.
The kids went from being practically [...]
OK – maybe not everyone.
But, a lot. Most, even.
Granted – my version of a “lie” is fairly strict, but here is what it says in the dictionary:
lie: n: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
To me, it’s pretty straightforward.
An omission is a lie.
A half-truth is a lie.
Implying a lie without actually stating it [...]
Kids and safety. It’s a never-ending conundrum.
We need to keep our kids safe because…well…they’re our KIDS, right?
But I would venture to say that no two sets of parents have the same version of what “safe” means. I know I’ve witnessed every variation between keeping the children in a virtual bubble to letting them run utterly [...]
My sister-in-law is a lesbian.
My sister-in-law has curly brown hair.
My sister-in-law has a pretty smile.
These are all simple truths. There does not need to be any emotional-adjustment to any of the above. There is no “getting-used-to” any of this. It is a simple concept, really.
Actually, it can be much harder to get past the pretty [...]
I’ve said more than once that thinking can be bad.
Not all thinking, but over-thinking.
Taking a moment, considering your possibilities, that’s usually a good start.
But you shouldn’t lose yourself in thought at the expense of action.
Even if you don’t know what to do, sometimes you just need to shrug your shoulders and throw the dice. If [...]
I’m sure the title has already raised the ire of many old-school, whipper-snapper-smacking, spare-the-rod-spoil-the-child loyalists.
But don’t get all worked up…I did say “much”.
I promise, I do have a purely scientific explanation for the title, as well as an explanation for why spankings have seemed to have worked so well for so long.
But I’m a loquacious, [...]
I love movies.
Well – I used to love movies. Nowadays I generally like movies. I love the occasional movie. But most of them are the same drivel over and over again. I have irritated the snot out of my wife more than once by telling her how the entire movie is going to roll out [...]