Life has been … well, it’s been a mess lately. I left my job, embarked on a month-long road trip that showed me over 9,000 road-miles’ worth of this great country, and, most recently have been helping care for my grandmother, who broke her leg last week. It’s been a ride, and one that I’m [...]
It’s going to take a lot of time and money to recover from the flood, but we didn’t lose nearly as much as some of our neighbors. A couple weeks later, it all seems like a bad dream.
I will say this: the government doesn’t care, FEMA doesn’t care, the city leadership doesn’t care, the insurance [...]
Columbus was hit hard; the water was a foot above the record March 1913 flood. I’ve been in St. Louis since last Saturday for Twangfest.
I called my mom yesterday afternoon, and I’ve never heard panic in her voice like that. Someone came and rescued her and my grandmother on an earthmover and took them to [...]
When I listened to Obama last night, I felt what I’d been longing for in a leader: inspiration and hope, two things I’ve never experienced with the Clinton machine, and definitely not since Reagan, when I was too young to know better. Call me naive, but if the worst thing one can say about Obama [...]
Indiana’s primary isn’t until May, so my vote likely won’t matter by then, but as I’ve been kicking this around, I’ve come to the following conclusion:
Who I vote for doesn’t matter. Who wins in November doesn’t matter. The next president is doomed. He (and I say “he” because I don’t think Hillary Clinton has a [...]
I’m in a very busy and transitional phase of my life, which explains the last post date of December 18. Much has happened since, and all will be revealed in due time.
For now, I’m leaning toward archiving this whole site and starting over. The underlying WordPress code has been tweaked into unrecognizability, due to my [...]
The latest in a long string of posters for erstwhile Cowtown rockers The Beatdowns. I’ll be at the show. Will you?
Apparently, today is Blog Action Day, a day for — I guess — anyone with a blog to post something relating to the environment. Here’s my advice:
Stop buying so much crap; it all ends up in landfills eventually.
There. That ought to do it.
I picked up the BlackBerry Curve at T-Mobile last night. I don’t know why I keep forgetting how maddening the BlackBerry UI is, but every couple of years, I pick one up, get ridiculously frustrated by it and return it to the store. This one is no different. Back to the Treo for now.
My iPhone saga ended Tuesday. I put the phone on eBay last week, but got no bids. The same day, my Treo started acting up by rebooting every time someone called me. I decided I’d take my chances and continue to use the unlocked iPhone. Given the hack-y nature of the unlocking process, all command [...]