Dave’s birthday cake

Along with being New Year’s Eve, it’s also my friend Dave’s birthday. They’ll be spending the evening with us and I thought I’d take pictures of his birthday cake/present. Yes, he’s slightly over 30. Yes, his birthday cake consists of G.I. Joes. Yes, it is awesome.
On a side note, it’s the first time I’ve ever [...]

Because I really mean it

I probably won’t have a chance to post again before midnight so I thought I’d take a second to say happy new year. I truly do appreciate everyone who stops by here to read my ramblings.
Normally I have a series of posts leading up to the new year about the previous year’s doings and what [...]

I put my hope in…Congress?

Roger Ebert wrote a column about the current state of the world. Most of it is probably more correct than we’d like to admit. It’s all about how we, as flawed humans, screw up most of what is put before us.
The sad part is at the end of it when he calls on Congress to [...]

A conversation I didn’t want to have

I crawled out of bed and made my way to the bathroom. My legs and feet ached badly. I stumbled into the bathroom. Tired eyes stared back at me from the mirror.
“Why do my legs hurt so bad?” I thought.
“Because you weigh too much, tubby,” my body answered back.
“Wow, thanks for that,” I said.
“Don’t look [...]

Nice job, Congress

It appears after a year of hard work and pleasing, well, no one, Congress has deemed itself worthy of a raise.
Yeah.
What’s wrong with this picture? Several things, actually.
One, who gets to decide on their own pay raises? That just doesn’t seem right.
Two, if your job performance rating ever dips to 14%, I don’t think a [...]

I hit delete

After yesterday’s post, I decided today the inbox would hit zero. With much deleting and a little sorting I went from around 2,000 emails last week down to zero.
It was surprisingly easy. You’d be shocked how many of those emails were completely useless. If I can do it in a day, you can too. I [...]

Just hit delete

My email box usually hovers around the 2,000 email mark. After some extensive cleaning it currently sits at just over 1,300.
Which brings me to the question, why in the world can’t I just hit delete? I’ll get an email that I will never need to read again. A completely useless piece of digital dust cluttering [...]

Bigger prayers

If you knew God would answer your prayer, what would you pray for?
Everyone at my house is currently sick. Monday I had to leave for a quick trip. Knowing I couldn’t reschedule it, I prayed, “God, please let me get through this trip without being sick.”
And he answered it. I made it through the trip [...]

The Pursuit

Just so you know, a big new idea is coming to the blog in 2009.

Girl in the window

Just thought I’d post one of my favorite photos from 2008. I took this one at Nicole & Storm’s wedding.

The bean dip lid of death

I carelessly knocked over the line of Cobra toys. Once again, G.I. Joe triumphed over the forces of evil and protected my toy box from tyrannical rule. I looked around the room to decide what to do next. He-man? Maybe later.
Then I heard it. That sound of thin metal being ripped from it’s base. I [...]

The family at Thanksgiving

Here are a few shots from Thanksgiving. Where we apparently had a military theme.
You can view the entire set here.

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Each session is up to an hour and a half at a location of your choice [...]

The new brand

If you haven’t watched the news lately things aren’t great. Large companies the world over are reporting losses and slashing jobs. This economic recession means a lot of very smart people are out of work.
Many of them are going to seek new jobs with corporations in the same field they were just fired from. We’ve [...]