Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Planning a Surprise Party
Better Half is turning 29 this Saturday. Of course, she's turned 29 before, several times. This time, however, I'm trying to plan a surprise party. I should have started planning much earlier, but didn't. The problem now is deciding whom to invite. If I invited everyone she knows, we'd have 300...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
The Connection to the Divine
Quit thinking, start reacting. My high school coaches usted to always tell me this. I was a player who "thought too much." I know this is going to sound crazy. I don't expect anyone to understand. Hell, I don't completely understand it myself. I have found the secret to success. About the only way I...
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Monday, June 19, 2006
A Baby in the House
Here it was, Father's Day weekend, and Eldest Daughter is packing up her stuff and moving out of the apartment. Better Half had arranged for the movers, and it didn't take long for them to empty her apartment while Dopey stood there trying hard not to cry. When Eldest Daughter is through with...
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Friday, June 16, 2006
My Parents Are Loons
As my sister says, my parents come up with a good idea every 10 years or so, then manage to muck it up. Their latest fiasco? Inviting Girl Genius to go with them to see my sister in Wisconsin, and then refusing to pay for the trip. To make up for this, my parents have invited me to their house in...
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Shut Up and Watch the Game
Better Half is of the opinion that basketball is only interesting when there's two minutes left to play.. That's when she'll take a break from the WE or Oxygen channel (chick TV) to come upstairs to watch the final seconds tick off the clock. But as the Mavericks and Heat are fighting bitterly to...
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Customer Service Hell
No, Ms. Reliant Customer Service Representative, I was not told I needed a permit before you would turn on electricity to the property in Hudson Oaks. Who do I need to get the permit from? There is no city of Hudson Oaks. That's the name of the subdivision. There is no "city," and Paker County does...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Life should be a rush!
I feel I've been walking on the edge of a cliff the last cuple of weeks, tettering between finacial success and ruin. Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys owner) was once asked about pressure, and he recalled not being able to sit and drink a glass of water without shaking because he had bet his family...
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Too Much Time on My Hands
The Big Boss here likes to spend money he doesn't have. So when money does come in, on one of my closings, for example, it's anyone's guess whether the cash coming on will cover all the hot checks he's written. So when I picked up my commission, I raced to the bank to cash it right away. When I...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Super Mario
As a kid, I loved to take things apart. Of course, like the shade tree mechanic, I always had parts left over when I put things back together. Most organized people label things when they disassemble something. Not me. Too much time and effort required. Besides, I always think I can remember how....
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Friday, June 2, 2006
She Doesn't Have the Energy
Eldest Daughter asked for a ride home today, and as luck would have it, I just happened to leave work two hours early. That meant I had to KILL an hour before she got off work, so I moseyed over to the Toyota dealership and looked around. Naturally, there were no prices on the windshields. It wasn't...
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