I can has award!

One of my favorite bloggers, Dead Charming, hath bestowed upon little old me the above award.  Coming from someone for whom I have such deep respect both personally and in terms of writing ability, I take this as high praise indeed, and am appropriately humbled.
DC says that he’s always amazed at how much I can [...]

Diaries of a Newbie Biker, Vol. 2

This post is part two of a series: click here to read the introduction and table of contents.

[This segment picks up three weeks after I've actually had my motorcycle delivered, as I go to attend my first rider training course.]

Mar 27 – Sat – First day of MSF Beginners Rider Course at [...]

My (incredibly short) Career in Southern Rock

I mentioned this briefly in my True or False post from quite a while ago, but Heather’s post from Monday reminded me of it again.  So I’ll tell the story of How I Briefly Played in a Southern Rock Band.
My dad married young, and I was born a few years later, so his younger brother [...]

Choices, choices.

Okay, so in the next two months, I either already have tickets to or have the options of seeing the following:
MotoGP at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Two of my five all-time Pantheon (“See these bands at all costs if they are anywhere within two area codes”) musical artists:
Opeth
Jonny Lang
And a few others:
Tesla
Five Finger Death Punch
GWAR
I’ve already nixed [...]

Inherent memory

It’s strange how sometimes a memory can be inherent in a physical object.
I was waltzing through the tools in Home Depot last night, buying a few needed items for my big deck project, when I walked by a folding ruler.

I was instantly four years old again, fascinated by my dad’s folding ruler almost exactly like [...]

Quick hits

Heya folks, I think at one point in time I had a substantive post in mind for today, but that’s before I went and got myself brain-fried.  So I offer this poor Quick Hits in its place.  And maybe someday soon I’ll remember what the hell I was thinking of…
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My major brain-fry comes from the [...]

Monday Music

Well, lessee, it was round about 17 years ago this time of year when a wide-eyed 17-year-old TB first set foot on a college campus as a student.  I was just thinking of that whole phenomenon a few days ago and decided that a great tribute to that would be one of the songs that [...]

More music! More music!

Y’all know I can’t resist this stuff.
I read this music meme from Matt (alliteration: I has it) this morning and immediately loved it. As I noted in the Shuffle Up blog post last week, I have some issues with these shuffled-music things in general because I don’t have a large-capacity mp3 player that [...]

Those Damn Kids…

…ate my brain.
My coworker and I usually do four 40-minute spiels every year for orientation.
This year, they decided to switch things up.  We did eight 20-minute spiels.
We were normally killing time at the end of the 40-minute things anyway, so we thought this was a great idea.  And for the first half, things WERE great.  [...]

Damn kids these days.

As previously stated, my son starts third grade today, and presumably right about now a whole buttload of kids are taking their first steps onto college campuses, like a 17-year-old TB did seventeen years ago.
These little bastards were a year old then.
In case you ever wanted to pause have to shiver at how rapidly you’re [...]