On the First Day of my Summer Vacation…

There’s an old Cheech and Chong skit… Sister Mary Elephant I think, in which the good sister has a student read his essay about what he did over his summer vacation. It begins:
“On the first day of my summer vacation, I woke up.”
Yeah, me too. A couple hours later than usual. I was [...]

I heard the news today…. boy howdy.

So the first thing I hear on NPR news this morning is about Governor Sanford. After so famously going all John C. Calhoun on President Obama by refusing stimulus money, it turns out the Governor was visiting his Argentinian mistress. I’d like to really jump all over Sanford about this, but there’s something [...]

My Own Facebook High School Musical

Now that Facebook has hooked me up with a lot of my high school friends I’m dusting off a lot of synapses. It’s always good to reconnect synapses, especially when they’re musical memories. Each time I see old friends, I hear the music they planted in my brain forever.
Thanks Everyone! [...]

You Can Take the boy out of Suburbia……

Alex waved to me frantically while I started mowing the lawn.
I’d already had some qualms about mowing the lawn to begin with. It was one of those rare times when I’m really into mowing, so I wasn’t trying to get my lazy ass out of any work. Earlier a lot of [...]