My friend B has a love / hate relationship with Friday. I won’t get into the origin story, but ever since he has worked with us he hates being reminded that it is Friday. And so every single Friday we try to make it a point to tell him that it is, indeed, Friday. Each …
Category: stuff
Jul 04
Independence Day
After driving around in my wife’s Jeep this morning on my day off I had time to think, and had something really eloquent to say, but unfortunately I didn’t write it while I had it and now it is gone. I’ll just sum it up this way: I love living in America, even with all …
Jun 01
Hideously modest
A friend of mine wears very conservative, one-piece swimsuits. She had left her swimsuit and shorts over at a friend’s house, but she didn’t remember where she left them. The friend didn’t know whose they were, so she threw them away. A couple weeks later she emailed my friend the bad news, having recently realized …
May 28
Memorial Day
I know that those who have given the most can’t read this, but I still gotta say it for those who can: thank you to all of you who served our country in the armed forces. I know I enjoy a lot of freedoms and comforts because you gave up some of yours. I realize …
May 20
Music and Memory
Every time I hear Elvis’s I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You it makes me think of Kaleb’s wife. Hold on–I know I have some ‘splainin’ to do–just give me a second. Music has a way of embedding memories. Trisha Yearwood and Clint Black, appropriately, used music to point this out, in The Song …
May 14
Quotable: C. S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy
‘Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.’
May 10
G. I. Joe Trivia
I’ve done a lot of things in my life, but probably the coolest thing was providing the voice of Snake Eyes on G. I. Joe Renegades.
May 07
Starter
I hate working on cars. I really freaking hate it. There are many good reasons to work on a car: you are a mechanic, you are Tony Stark, or you are clinically depressed but don’t quite feel like dying. There are abundantly more bad reasons: you have to get to work, you are on vacation, …
Apr 22
Thank you for the coffee
Dear Nichole, Thank you so much for the large sampling of Flavia coffee packets. I would write you personally and thank you, but I try not to write personal thank you notes to members of the opposite sex that aren’t from me and Heather. I realize that your kindness will go unthanked, but still I …
