As the closing of my first new home approaches (tentatively October 10th), my yearning for new furnishings is increasingly becoming an obsession. The worst part is, my fixation is finding the perfect dwellings for my pets. Rolling Stone and Peanut...
The Moon on 9/4/08
The Moon is back in the sky and will start making astrophotography more difficult for a couple weeks, but it was quite pretty in the sky tonight. It’s actually really nice out....
Mayor Allen Joines announced "Go Green Winston-Salem: Sustainability Today & Tomorrow" in a news conference today. Here is the concept: Celebrate with the City of Winston-Salem as we highlight the city's growing 'Green' influence in everything from transportation to...
Getting with the program…I decided to get with the program and designed a simple running program for myself. Now that I know I can run the 5K, I want to start working on my speed. My next 5K...
The past few weeks have been a whirlwind both personally and at work. Otto ze wunderhund is recovering well from surgery, I'm totally wiped from 3rd shift and a wickedly busy start to the semester, and classes. I just mailed...
Last night, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin delivered an amazing speech at the GOP Convention. In the past few days leading up to her big night, many pundits have questioned whether or not she could perform under the pressure. Today, no...
Sarah did a great job reading the teleprompter and I hear that the speech writers did a good job of making the speech more feminine than masculine. I really can’t tell a masculine speech from a feminine speech so I will have...
Mama: What's your favorite color?Ella: purple.Mama: What's your favorite animal?Ella: Mmm...Ella the elegant elephant.Mama: Who do you want to marry when you get to be a big girl?Ella: Umm, I fink Juden or Nana.Mama: What do you want to be...
LOL! I am now starting to blame Amy for the way I feel everyday since she peer pressured me into this. :) I'm only joking of course and at the end I'll be thanking her when I have rockin legs...
There has lately been a lack of hilarious police blotter muck on Chattanoogan.com. It has been overrun with real crimes that are pretty serious in nature. I've had to grab a few from a couple different pages this time.August 11,...
from his great interview on Chattarati "The origin stories of nuts and bolts are just so shallow. I want to know how each individual nut and bolt feels; I am burning to understand what nuts and bolts think of being part...
I promised this post months ago and am finally now getting to it, sorry for the wait to those who have been checking back for it. I have been trying to compile pictures of past projects and get things organized,...
Young men are delaying adulthood as long as possible. Makes sense especially in a culture where no one really cares about forming boys into men and masculinity is viewed as something negative in general. Newsweek has an article about the book...
Four years ago, Barack Obama, then a state senator from Illinios, was thrust into the national spotlight as a key speaker at the DNC. He is certainly articulate, and gave an energizing speech that elevated him to rock-star status among...
This poem--
Mangled illusionCovert collusionBelieving delusionSometimes exclusionElitist profusionTwisted conclusionState of confusion
In response to this photograph posted at Laura Salas today for 15 words or less poems--
And I'm wondering if you have any idea what I was thinkin' about when I wrote...
"Fight Gone Bad!"Three rounds of:Wall-ball, 20 pound ball, 10 ft target (Reps)Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 pounds (Reps)Box Jump, 20" box (Reps)Push-press, 75 pounds (Reps)Row (Calories)In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute.The clock does not...
so ye ol' truckie has been on the blitzers for the past week... ergh.the funny thing is that I have a broken truck to thank for my new favorite time of the day.The late afternoons have quickly become the highlight...
Is anyone watching Mitt Romney? Is he on crack?
He complains about the liberals in Washington and says we should throw them out and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin!
Huh? Is he saying that George Bush and Dick Cheney are evil...
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