Archive for July, 2010

The Son

25, Jul 2010

Chris is driving across country as we speak. He is traveling with two other friends. Not three or four years ago, I used to refer to them as “the retards” because of their lack of common sense. But they are adults now and they are driving a 1965 Mustang to the West [...]

Summertime

20, Jul 2010

For the past few days, we’ve had some rain. In fact, a squall thumped through our neighborhood last night, bringing the thunder and lightning and occasional buckets of rain. A transformer blew a few houses down and killed the lights. The noise of a transformer arcing is pretty cool. Unfortunately just [...]

Intimacy

13, Jul 2010

Ya know…
It’s hard enough these days. At this age with various aches and pains and moods.
And your schedules are totally out of whack when you get home maybe an hour before your spouse goes to bed.
And your children are sixteen and over and never seem to leave the house.
But you KNOW you’re [...]

Added to iPod

7, Jul 2010

I’m up to 14,600 songs on the iPod – much slower this year than last. So after removing all videos and TV shows and a few records I never listened to, my 80 gig has very little room left. However, my wife’s 160 gig iPod has only 3 gigs worth of music on [...]


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