I’ll be out of town at a business conference down in sunny Phoenix, Arizona for the next three days. I might be able to make it online every now and then, especially since my hotel room is confirmed a hard-wired high-speed room. However, any time scavenged online is likely to be spent defending Malton. It’s […]
Out for a while
I’m going to be away from the site for a few days. My wife’s grandmother passed away this weekend after a year-long battle with lung cancer. I don’t want to say she “lost” the battle, as so many people in these sorts of situations do. It’s always sounded so horrendously pessimistic to me. But she’s […]
More tubes, please
Caleb got tubes inserted into his ears this morning for the third time in his short life. Here he is just before leaving me to have some strange doctor shove pieces of plastic into his eardrums. The kid’s a trooper, I have to give him credit. He came out of the surgery fantastically, with only […]
Merry (day after) Christmas!
I’m back at work today after a truly excellent four-day weekend filled with Christmas-y goodness. I received Zack & Wiki and Super Mario Galaxy (amongst other fine consumable materials), so my gaming days are for the most part booked for a while. I’m still tossing around the idea of picking up Battalion Wars 2 since […]
We’re alive
No nasty accidents on the way home yesterday from our trip to Iowa City. We did have to chisel the van out of nearly two inches of ice that had accumulated over the day on Saturday, however. That was a part of the Iowa life that I always forget about come winter. We had an […]
Week off! WHOO-HOO!
I’ve got the entire week off next week. On Monday, I get to stay home with Alex while the wife goes off and does…something…wifey. On Tuesday, I’m traipsing into Des Moines to spend the day in a coffee shop somewhere and write. All day long. Or at least most of the day. Wednesday, I get […]
Today is my birthday
By the way, today is my 31st birthday. Well wishes are not only encouraged, they are demanded. You may begin groveling now.
Big weekend plans
This should be one of those big, hectic weekends that we seem to have a love/hate relationship with these days. We’ve got Brant’s Great Pumpkin Festival most of the day Saturday, and then that night I resume duties as emcee to the First Things Tour concert coming through our church. I’ve got to figure out […]
Time to tell an embarrassing story
As if it weren’t already obvious enough, I’m about to tell a story that actually occurred this weekend and contains a fair bit of personal embarrassment. Just a warning. So, I found my wedding ring on Saturday. Yeah, let me tell a bit of back story first. About two years ago, I was out un-burying […]
The ball doesn’t get “kicked”, it gets “blasted”
I’ve had a couple questions about the current header graphic. Yes, that’s a shot of Caleb I took just as his foot was about to blast the soccer ball. Yeah, that’s right – he never just “kicks” the ball. Oh, no. Not my son. No, he blasts the ball. He runs up to that ball, […]